The Fraunhofer Institute has announced a new light-based wireless networking technology that can achieve 12.5Gbps in throughput, aimed at serving industrial applications. The system, centered around the GigaDock, could provide the pipe that powers increasingly data-rich machinery and services, as manufacturers look to boost efficiency. The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsytems (IPMS), to give it its full name, has announced the creation of an optical line-of-sight (LoS) module that can provide 12.5Gbps of communications bandwidth. Aimed at industrial applications, Franhofer notes that the system is around ten times faster than WiFi, and also benefits from a number of security benefits inherent in its physical properties. To grossly oversimplify the technology, wireless communication is a bit like using a radio wave…