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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the net-comes-with-free-juice dept.

ReLik writes "The BBC has an article regarding power supply via networks. 'Instead of needing adapters, computer networks could soon be supplying the devices they interconnect with both data and power. Some makers of network equipment are already putting the power via data cable system into their products. The basic plugs for computer networks are the same all over the world, raising the possibility that powered data cables could become a universal back-up power supply.'" We've talked a little about specific 802.3 spec advances previously.

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  1. 'til the first hacker comes along by 0x12d3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... he'll re-define the term "firewall"

  2. hmmmm... by tony1c · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if they'll be sending it as straight binary or xml.

  3. Uhm... USB already does that... by loucura! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Both HIGH SPEED/POWER, AND FULL SPEED/POWER... and the as-yet-unreleased LUDICROUS SPEED/POWER.

    This is just another case of the Brits trying to steal our momentum... those bastards.

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  4. No more do-it-yourself IT by dfn5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, you'll now have to get a licensed electrician to punch down that patch panel, unless you don't mind fried IT people piling up at the bottom of your 19" rack.

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  5. What about data over power lines? by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: 5, Funny

    So.. we have power over data lines and data over power lines..

    What a world, I'm so glad to be alive in 2003 :)

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  6. Electricity over IP! by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Time to pull out RFC 3251 RFC 3251!!!

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  7. Already been done by jCaT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, so maybe this wasn't exactly what they were talking about. It's still kind of fun though...

    The Etherkiller

  8. Re:Power causes interference? by wfberg · · Score: 5, Funny


    Wouldn't supplying substantial amounts of power through network cable (lets say cat5) make enough EMI to scramble the data going through the other pairs?

    Gee, I suppose those boys at the IEEE haven't paid any attention to that. How embarrassing. Those electrical engineers, always chasing the girls, playing in rock-bands, and entering in surfing contests! This kinda thing was bound to happen...

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