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Wireless communications have been increasingly important. Besides Wi-Fi, FSO plays a very relevant technological role in this context. Performance is essential, resulting in more reliable and efficient communications. A 1.14 km FSO medium range link has been successfully implemented for high requirement applications at Gbps. An extended experimental performance evaluation of this link has been carried out at OSI levels 1, 4 and 7, through a specifically planned field test arrangement. Several results, obtained namely from simultaneous measurements of powers received by the laser heads for TCP, UDP and FTP experiments, are presented and discussed.
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Supports from University of Beira Interior and FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)/POCI2010 (Programa Operacional Ciência e Inovação) are acknowledged. We acknowledge Hewlett Packard and FSONA for their availability.
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de Carvalho, J.A.R.P., Marques, N., Veiga, H., Ribeiro Pacheco, C.F., Reis, A.D. (2011). A Medium Range Gbps FSO Link. In: Ao, SI., Gelman, L. (eds) Electrical Engineering and Applied Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1192-1_11
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