Switch On For Powered Data Networks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 9, 2003 @11:37AM 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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Really? by geekmetal · 2003-07-09 11:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

The days of travelling with lots of different adapters to ensure you can recharge your laptop, phone and other gadgets could soon be at an end.
How effective would this in a world striving to move to wireless protocols?!
It wouldn't get the chance to make a scratch let alone a mark.

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