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  1. US version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Powerline Broadband in Hong Kong

    i remember reading about an american developer of delivering internet over power lines and they were claming to deliver speeds above the gigabit barrier to home users, Media Fusion was their website but by the viewing of their blank page, it seems the company went belly up...

  2. Re:Wasn't this done before? by per+unit+analyzer · · Score: 2 · on Broadband via Power Cables trials in Scotland
    Nor.Web did a field demo with a major SOUTHERN US utility and it worked great 'til the HV breached the isolation on their HV to LV bypass device and the device blew up. There were also strong allogations (which Nor.Web denied) that there were interference issues with their technology already operating in Europe. (The infamous broadcasting lamposts.) The reason they cited in their shutdown was that they couldn't make the business case work (esp in US) no matter how many times they did the math. Subsequently their IP was shopped around to a bunch of folks, but I can't remember if it was snapped up and incorporated into anyone else's technology.

    People are still trying though.. The aforementioned Current Technologies and Amperion are trying to develop a viable product for the US. The distribution transformer is still the killer. More information on the power line broadband space can be found at the United Power Line Council.

    Oh, BTW.. There was a story on /. a few months back on Luke Stewart and Media Fusion. Apparently, they have mended their fences and Stewart is back peddling his mumbo-jumbo, too-hard-for-anyone-but-Luke-to-understand technology known as "Advanced Subcarrier Modulation [ASCM] (TM)."

    --z

  3. Re:This won't happen anytime soon by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 2 · on High-speed Internet Access: Power Lines For Real
    Whatever happened to those guys who claimed to be using a maser to modulate the magnetic field, thereby defeating Maxwell's equations and getting high frequency data through the 60Hz transformers?

    You must be talking about Media Fusion. They used to have an interesting site but now they've done some reorganization in the company and just put up a "under construction" sign. Its been there for some time now. I'm hoping its true but I'm thinking "SCAM."

    Their claims were that they could put their units in the power distribution stations and then everyone would be able to buy little boxes to plug into their outlets that would be able to recieve and transmit data. They claimed data transmission rates in the gigabit range.

  4. Mediafusion was working on Powerline area network by kousik · · Score: 1 · on Powerline Networks Finally Viable?
    Media Fusion, Inc. was working on Powerline Area Network some days back. Now they have their website down, but I prepared some notes at that time. You can have the points:
    - Long distance signal carriage without regeneration
    - Near light speed propagation
    - Enormous information carrying capacity
    - No topology limitation
    - No addressing overhead, no network storms, no re-transmission due to dropped packets, no data loss

    The technology would involve:
    - Inscribing data within the natural low-frequency bandwidth of the electric wave to send information
    - Identifying all data and frequencies riding within the wave
    - Converting those signals into interpretable forms in "real time" by using state-of-the-art signal-processing equipment

    I don't know what happ'd to these folks. Maybe we can ask Edwin G. Blair?

  5. Re:Like a waveguide... by gwyndaf · · Score: 1 · on Gigabyte Modems over Electric Lines
    .. even the stupid patent makes sense, ..

    Having said that, the website still reads like pure sucker-bait, and the vast majority of the patent still reads as though the author has been sniffing mercury. And yet, if you carefully pick and chose your claims, the patent can still be arranged to make a description of a plausible system.

    PS: Mystery explained ? [1] [2]

  6. Patent and more info. by cananian · · Score: 1 · on Gigabyte Modems over Electric Lines
    This story was posted 8 days ago. Exact same company, exact same process. Here's what I posted then:
    Check out the patent and their cheesy promo graphic. They claim that this technique is transformer-transparent. If the signal really does make it through transformers and around sharp corners with little radiative loss, then they could really be onto something. It'll take real-world testing to find out. I'd expect the maser would be expensive. So the crucial factor will be how many maser-transmitter/repeaters are necessary. (maybe one of these high downstream low upstream bandwidth dealies to minimize the # of masers required).
  7. Comparing This To... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on VDSL Demoed

    MediaFusion looks a lot more impressive. According to the MediaFusion web site:

    • 2.5 GB/s connection.
    • Uses powerlines already in place.
    • Will be out third quarter of 2000.
    • $60 for average household.
    Hopefully this will pan out and squash all the lame net connection stuff out now.

    Biguser@hotmail.com