Just as a reminder how much fasters LEDs are compared to other light emitting devices:
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news351527
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Forscher-schaffen-mit-weisser-LED-500-MBit-s-906293.html
its in german, but the point is: They used some Ostar leds for data communication, and archived 500Mbit/s over a distance of 5m.
Which is quite fast.
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news351527
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Forscher-schaffen-mit-weisser-LED-500-MBit-s-906293.html
its in german, but the point is: They used some Ostar leds for data communication, and archived 500Mbit/s over a distance of 5m.
Which is quite fast.
