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Free Space Optical (FSO) Solutions

What Is It?
fSONA's SONAbeam™ series of Free Space Optical (FSO) products offer secure point-to-point communications between buildings, towers or windows. The SONAbeam™ product line can be rapidly deployed in any line of sight situation.

What's It For?
The ability to rapidly and cost-effectively extend your agency's network will allow you to fulfill the growing need to share information through data networking. As well, the SONAbeam™ product family is ideal for physical diversity and redundancy programs initiated to protect networks from failure due to disaster or attack.

How It Works
SONAbeam™ products are available in various bandwidths from 1.5 Mbps up to 1.5 Gbps allowing you to extend your agency's network using familiar protocols and maximize investments made in existing data infrastructure. The SONAbeam™ 1250 series is rate adaptive so your agency can seamlessly ramp up capacity as needed.

How You Benefit
SONAbeam™ systems are designed, engineered and tested to ensure exceptional reliability. Building on their extensive experience in laser communications systems for military and space applications, their design engineers have ensured that critical sub-systems are manufactured using high-reliability components. These products offer long-term investment protection and allow you to meet reduced telecommunications budget requirements with:

Secure wireless communications
Scalability that accommodates your agency's growth
Reliable operation and minimal downtime
Rapid deployment
Rugged, environmentally sealed outdoor/indoor equipment

For pricing, select fSONA on the Pricing Search - Products/CPE page. For more information, contact your Verizon Account Manager.

Please see the following file for a comparison of fSONA products including transmission rates and other technical specifications:

fSONA Product Family Comparison Matrix (288K)
* Original: 03/11/03

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