Kyocera SLD Laser pumps up the Li-Fi speed

Kyocera SLD Laser (KSLD) recently showed a laser Li-Fi system at the CES exhibition in Las Vegas in which a transmitter delivered data at 100 gigabits per second.

But Li-Fi, which dates back to at least 2012 when then University of Edinburgh professor Harald Haas co-founded pureLiFi, has endured slow commercial progress. Li-Fi end users generally have to attach inconvenient dongles.

pureLiFi has demonstrated a gigabit per second under controlled conditions, but real-world installations typically run slower.

The 100 Gbps that KSLD showed at CES is five times the speed of its previous fastest demonstration of 20 Gbps.