100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released
100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released

100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released

Proponents boast that 802.11bb is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi and more secure.
Isn't WiFi technically light based? It's all just electromagnetic radiation
From the Wikipedia article on light:
But also:
So yeah, depends on your usage of the term “light”, but colloquially (and in this context), it’s referring to visible light.
Radio.
Radio and light are the same thing from a physics standpoint, just different ranges of electromagnetic spectrum.
So phones and communication towers are basically flashlights blinking at each other using invisible light, to which walls/buildings and stuff are translucent :)
Or like x-ray is pretty much a camera flash that can shine through bodies.
@peter Yeah, that's a bit confusing. Wifi is based on radio spectrum, and Lifi is based partly on infrared. And infrared light has more energy. So I guess that's one of the downsides probably, that it requires more energy to produce that? I'm not an expert or anything like that.