>Subject: Using telephone wiring for high speed access
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>New product turns apartments into computer networks
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>SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - The concept: turn the existing telephone wiring
>of an apartment complex into a local area network. Then just like a
>company network, hook it up to a fat Internet pipe, and voila: apartment
>dwellers have high-speed access to the Internet.
>
>That's a workable scenario according to InterQuest, a service provider
>targeting apartment owners with its LAN-based Internet access.
>
>The system works by creating a local area network over a building's or
>complex's existing phone wiring, InterQuest says.
>
>An Ethernet adapter is plugged into phone jacks inside apartments, to
>which residents can connect a computer or Internet-enabled TV, according
>to the company. CAIS Internet, among other companies, has been offering
>a similar system since last year.
>
>Costing residents $49 per month, InterQuest access is provided at a
>50-times-28.8-Kbps speed of 1.5 Mbps. The company said today that it is
>launching service in a 600-resident complex in Sunnyvale, California and
>is partnering with similar property owners nationwide.
>
>(Reuters/Wired)
>
Karin
PhD student
Faculty of Communication
University of Canberra
http://student.canberra.edu.au/~u833885/home.htm