Meet Li-Fi 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

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If you want more internet speed then the answer to your woes could be LiFi.

Harald Haas, Chair of Mobile Communications, at the University of Edinburgh is also the co-founder of pureLiFi Ltd. For several years, Haas has been studying ways to communicate electronic data signals and design better ways to transmit them wirelessly.

In a video in 2011, Haas demonstrated a technique to do away with the dependence on spectrum and also conserve energy by using light.

The technique demoed by Harald Haas during a TED Talk has now been specialised to deliver data transfer speeds of up to 1Gbps, which is approximately 100 times faster than the currently available Wi-Fi technologies.

Similarly optical technologies have been employed with Gpon or Gigabit Passive Optical Network which aimed to deliver a gigabit worth of bandwidth of data over an optical fibre network. It is in line with these initiatives that projects such as Google Fiber took off and became a reality.