#InfraredWiFi

Now, here comes my tips for #Microsoft, #Google, #Facebook etc. Dutch researchers say a new wireless network employing harmless infrared rays will make Wi-Fi speeds up to 300 times faster.

"What we are doing actually is using rays of light light which convey the information in a wireless way, and each ray is acting as a very capacity channel. It's actually the same as an optical fibre without needing the fibre, and what we achieved up to this moment is 112 gigabits per second," Prof. Ton Koonen of Eindhoven University of Technology said. 

That's the equivalent data of three full-length HD movies being downloaded per second. Light antennas radiate multiple invisible wavelengths at various angles. If a user's smartphone or tablet moves out of one antenna's sight line, another takes over. Infrared wavelengths don't go into your eyes, making them safe to use. The lack of moving parts makes the system maintainable and power-free. Each user gets their own antenna. 

"The big benefits we see of our technique is that you offer unshared capacity to each individual usher, so you get a guaranteed capacity. Next to that you only get a beam if you need the traffic. So, we're not illuminating the whole place where may be a single usher is there. That means it's much more power efficient," Koonen said. 

"Another efficiency, another advantage, is that light doesn't go through walls. So that means your communication is really confined to the particular room. Nobody can listen in from outside, so it offers you a lot of security," he added. 

The team is seeking funding to help make the technology widespread within five years .