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Ethernet Via Electric Conduits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thomas-alva-would-be-proud dept.

windows bios world writes "From a CNet article NYC businesses will be able to get internet access via ethernet routed through electrical conduits from a subsidiary of Con Edison. CEC is targeting business customers and telecommunications carriers with its PowerLan Ethernet services as part of a larger strategy to become the premier provider of high-bandwidth transport services for New York." Interesting that a non-telecommunications firm can parley a single asset (right-of-way in existing conduits in the crowded tunnels under Manhattan) into a business.

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  1. WOW! by thumbtack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Electric pRon!

  2. Reklama by rublik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://kubik.ru

  3. Re:ATTN FRENCH PEOPLE by benzapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh I just love europeans and their funny little dialects. Its so quaint! I always wonder if they talk that way in their little cottages after the town fair where they all got completely wasted.

    Ahh, nothing beats a drunken european.

    Especially in Spain where the age of consent is still 12!

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  4. Re:Security Risk? by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, there was an article a while back about being able to dechiper modem trnsmission via the TX/RX lights falshing patterns. The short version is that since modems send serial data, the on-off tx light is a good proxy for whether the modem is sending a 1 or a 0. You can time the lights (LEDs quickly change state so optical delays are negligable), and reconstruct the waveform of the transmitted data. How useful that would be in the real world, who knows?

    Links:

    http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/06/1221224.sh tm l?tid=172

    http://applied-math.org/optical_tempest.pdf

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