Re: 40 GBit @ 240 GHz across 1 km LoS

[Carsten Bormann <cabo () tzi org>]

On May 17, 2013, at 16:30, Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com> wrote:

> By not working. At those frequencies you're talking a light moisture pocket taking the entire link down.

Not quite as bad:

http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/int/institut/MA_Publikationen/reichart/COMCAS_25G_link.pdf

The ~ 50 mm/h rain they seem to budget for is not yet quite an "end of the world" torrent, but it's not like you sneeze 
and the link goes down.
(And if you have more than 50 mm/h sustained, you've got a much, much bigger problem :-)

Grüße, Carsten