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...bandwidth required to transmit streaming video would incapacitate most office networks. But once corporations have all the bandwidth they need, experts say, all videoconferencing will be done using IP. When videoconferencing gets to that level, "it will be operating on an easier platform," says Lou Gellos, spokesman for Terabeam, a Seattle-based firm that markets laser transmitters that can send up to a gigabit of video per second (600 times as fast as T-1 lines) between offices and the data network...
...voluminous data. So providers of wireless technologies have had a hard time gaining market share. But the World Trade Center tragedy has unexpectedly given them a chance to show off their wares. Because the fiber-optic lines in lower Manhattan were damaged, Merrill Lynch turned to Seattle-based Terabeam, which provides laser transmitters (like the one below) that connect individual offices to the data network. The devices, trained on each other through windows, can send a gigabit of information per second--600 times faster than the T-1 lines used in many offices. Service starts at about...
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