Wednesday, 12 February 2003

Here's Broadband in Your Pocket. A 3G wireless chip from Australia's Bell Labs promises to spawn cell phones that can receive sharp, real-time video and other data at speeds that beat a home broadband connection. It's faster than Wi-Fi, but analysts wonder if it will catch on.

[Source: Wired News]
11:18:37 PM    


Broadband over Power Lines. There has been an increasing talk of high-speed Internet being delivered like a utility over the pwer lines, in effect making "making every electrical outlet an always-on Web connection." WSJ has a report on companies like Amaren Corp, which serves about 1.5 million electric customers in Missouri and Illinois, are doing. Here's how the technology works: Data is carried either by fiber-optic or telephone lines to skip disruptive high-voltage lines, then is injected into the power grid downstream, onto medium-voltage wires. Because signals can only make it so far before breaking apart, special electronic devices on the line catch packets...

[Source: E M E R G I C . o r g]
11:16:12 PM    


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