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Monday, April 22, 2002
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000027771apr19.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology The Invisible Lightness of Beams - Company promotes Internet access via laser beams that zap through windows ROY RIVENBURG, TIMES STAFF WRITER Look! Up in the sky, it's a ... well, actually, you can't see it. But it's there. A company called Terabeam recently landed in Los Angeles and announced plans to "send invisible light beams through the air downtown."... Founded five years ago by an eccentric inventor, the company delivers high-speed Internet access via laser beams zapped through office windows. It might sound like science fiction, but Terabeam is actually borrowing technology developed by the military during the Cold War, when submarines used blue-green lasers to chat with satellites....
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