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10 ways to protect systems from electrical damage
News From improper site wiring to lightning strikes, a wide variety of electrical issues constantly threaten systems and peripherals. Information technology professionals typically aren't responsible for a facility's wiring quality, but as they're...
[July 20, 2006, 17:35]
BT gadget may give broadband speed boost
News BT Wholesale has said it will be offering its ISP customers a hardware filter that could potentially improve customers' broadband by filtering out electrical interference in the home caused by TVs, fluorescent lighting and home wiring.
[October 2, 2008, 7:48]
Powerline networking charges up
News Powerline networking is based on the HomePlug Powerline Alliance's HomePlug 1.0.1 standard, which allows devices such as PCs and access points to connect to a network through existing electrical wiring and outlets in a home.
[March 10, 2003, 10:57]
Power Over Ethernet: The Cost Saving Solution for Powering Your Network
White Papers As the world goes wireless, with Wi-Fi Access Points (APs), IP cameras and VoIP phones appearing everywhere, new wiring and equipment challenges are arising. Electricians are expensive, it takes time to wire and install electrical outlets, and...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
WebTV wants to control your home
News The WebTV box will become the hub in a home network that uses existing electrical wiring and Leviton electrical outlets and switches that are enhanced with Echelon's processors. WebTV, along with chip manufacturer Echelon and electric switch maker...
[March 9, 1999, 7:08]
French powerline vendor wires homes and hotels
News The big headache associated with networking across wiring that is also carrying an electrical current is signal loss, but LEA claims to have solved this problem. It forms a connection between a broadband-enabled telephone line and a standard...
[March 18, 2004, 18:15]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News Optical interconnects are bound to cost more than copper wiring because of the cost of manufacturing the lasers and receivers needed to translate data from an electrical signal, send data over the fibre and translate it back.
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
Airlines ban mobile phones -- but why?
Talkback Now these issues were created when a mobile phone was brought within proximity of the Avionics equipment and wiring, which sadly runs from nose to tail on the aircraft. Not only do they operate on a wide spectrum of frequencies, but they emit...
[August 3, 2005, 0:51]
Intel claims quantum leap in fibre-optic detectors
News If you run fibre, you need a device that breaks it down to the inside wiring, to the copper, and those devices are maybe a few hundred dollars," Winn said. Photodetectors work by capturing a photon (a quantised particle of light) that comes in and...
[December 8, 2008, 10:33]
Spinning electrons will speed up chips
News Led by the University of Bath, the international three-year effort will investigate the use of microwaves on chip to replace electrical wiring. This should be much more efficient, faster and more flexible than using electrical conductors, freeing...
[June 23, 2006, 10:40]
Council flats get broadband via power line
News Using a "pre-WiMax" 5.8GHz wireless connection based on the roofs of the buildings, a broadband connection will be distributed to residents through the buildings' electrical wiring. Residents of council flats in the West Midlands town of Solihull...
[May 21, 2008, 16:26]
Networking start-up plugs into cable
News The Pure Speed products are a high-speed alternative to home wireless networking gear, and another networking technology called powerline networking, which uses a home's existing electrical wiring to deliver network connectivity.
[May 15, 2003, 13:08]
Tesco takes Safeway into online shopping
News Webvan put its faith in high-tech infrastructure, creating an immense Californian warehouse that was reported to cover 330,000 square feet and contain five miles of conveyor belts and £2m of electrical wiring.
[January 14, 2002, 12:30]
Alliance promotes networked digital home
News And then there is the existing power system, which sends data through household electrical wiring. A group of vendors and service providers have banded together to help promote technology that would enable homeowners to use existing cable to link...
[January 6, 2004, 12:05]
Convergence to dominate CES
News Many of the customers are opting for power-line networking, which uses broadband delivered via a house's internal electrical wiring, said Jorge Blasco, chief executive of powerline modem provider Design of Systems on Silicon.
[January 4, 2006, 11:05]
News Schmooze: Of Microsoft and Meta Pads
News Who knows what they could find in there, tangled amidst all the dust, old newspapers, crooked plumbing and Sellotaped electrical wiring? Topping the bill was BT, led by combative chairman Sir Christopher Bland -- but the event's peachiest moment...
[February 8, 2002, 12:12]
Power on Ethernet gives networks a voice
News Combined switch-and-power units allow users to centralise power management in the wiring closet, he said. Power on Ethernet (PoE) carries electrical power over the same network connection as the LAN data.
[March 11, 2003, 13:50]
Intel gets optical with fibre
News Intel's Components Research Lab is working on ways to replace copper wiring between motherboards and chips inside computers with faster, more energy-efficient optical fibre. As frequency increases, optical attenuation occurs much more slowly than...
[March 1, 2004, 14:25]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment DC applications are those that do not depend on wiring, which is very expensive, bulky, and heavy. True enough, I am not a journalist; I am just an electrical engineer bachelor with a master in computer science, and I am not on a deadline.
[July 9, 2007, 20:42]
'Flying' micro-robot developed by researchers
News Since there is no wiring, and the robot freely floats in air, it can operate in an enclosed chamber while the whole setup is outside," wrote Khamesee. Mustafa Yavuz, submitted the paper to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and...
[April 9, 2009, 18:29]
