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Listen: Li-Fi’s Advantages Over Wi-Fi with Alistair Banham and Harald Burchardt

On today’s podcast, I have a chance to talk to Alistair Banham (CEO) and Harald Buchman (CCO) from PureLiFi. We discuss the completely logical reason to develop a way to use light as a communication protocol, some of the stunning advantages of LiFi over WiFi (security, control, efficiency), and we almost get them to…

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On today’s podcast, I have a chance to talk to Alistair Banham (CEO) and Harald Buchman (CCO) from PureLiFi.

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We discuss the completely logical reason to develop a way to use light as a communication protocol, some of the stunning advantages of LiFi over WiFi (security, control, efficiency), and we almost get them to…

On today’s podcast, I have a chance to talk to Alistair Banham (CEO) and Harald Buchman (CCO) from PureLiFi. We discuss the completely logical reason to develop a way to use light as a communication protocol, some of the stunning advantages of LiFi over WiFi (security, control, efficiency), and we almost get them to spill a big secret that they are going to reveal at the WMC next week.

For more information on PureLiFi be sure to check out – purelifi.com

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