With speeds of up to Gigabit Ethernet then businesses are able to provide access
to bandwidth hungry applications from remote sites at the same time as retaining
the security and integrity of the data inherent within the Corporate LAN. Through
the utilisation of lasers as a transmission medium the security issues and network
breaches facing unlicensed radio and microwave are overcome using PAV's FSO technology.
Typically many of these bandwidth requirements are for circuits that can operate
across relatively short distances. Typical environments include office-to-office
connections in the urban environment, campus locations and factory locations where
a line of site is usually achievable. Traditional connectivity solutions have included
expensive leased circuits from the Telecommunications operators, installation of
time consuming and costly fixed cabling or wireless solutions such as licensed microwave
or IEEE 802.11b radio which are now suffering from spectrum availability and security
issues. Within the wireless arena, Free Space Optics (FSO) has emerged as an ideal
technology to provide cost effective, license free, high bandwidth solutions to the
bandwidth bottleneck encountered in the enterprise market place.