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Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT

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Takuya Saitoh wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> Get ready to stop being irradiated with WiFi radio waves, LiFi is coming!
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi
>
> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/08/21/purelifi-li-fi-vlc-led/
>
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/lifi-gets-ready-to-compete-with-wifi
>
> Any Linux drivers for Li-Fi yet?  Linux users always lagging in new
> hardware support behind the Windoze/Appil, what a joke that Linux be....
> Hope at least the *droids can catch up quickly.
>
> http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/purelifi-releases-worlds-first-true-lifi-dongle-lifi-x-at-mobile-world-congress-2016-569650451.html

Idiot

   http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/82494.html

   Modern light-emitting diode light bulbs, or LEDs, can provide a
   foundation for networking using visible light as a communication medium,
   according to the Disney researchers' report.

   The team modified common commercial LED light bulbs to send and receive
   visible light signals. They built a system on a chip, or SoC, running the
   Linux operating system, a VLC controller module with the protocol
   software, and an additional power supply for the added electronics.

   The key to the project's success was the Linux software that enabled the
   signals to work with the Internet Protocol. The VLC-enabled bulbs served
   as broadcast beacons, which made it possible to detect the location of
   objects on the network and to communicate with them.

   The Linux connection is at the software level. The Linux kernel driver
   module integrates the VLC protocol's PHY and MAC layers into the Linux
   networking stack.

   The VLC firmware on a separate microcontroller communicates with the
   Linux platform over a serial interface, the report notes.

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The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-08-23 08:52 -0700
  Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-08-23 16:15 +0000
  Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-08-23 13:09 -0400
    Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-08-23 19:30 +0200
      Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-23 13:27 -0500
        Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-08-23 14:29 -0400
        Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-08-25 09:14 -0400
    Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2016-08-23 23:00 +0100
      Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-08-25 09:23 -0400
  Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-08-23 19:36 +0000
    Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-08-23 18:07 -0700
      Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-08-25 09:35 -0400
        Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-08-25 15:41 +0200
          Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-08-25 11:00 -0400
    Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-08-24 10:01 -0400
    Re: The (near)future of computer networks: Li-Fi + IoT Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-08-25 09:18 -0400

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