Powerline 4 Megabit/s

[lowell]

Wasn't there a fair sized article on these guys (Media Fusion)
in Wired this month; they smelled snake oil, I believe...
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Chris Midkiff wrote:

> This has been in and out of the news for some time...  Media Fusion received
> a US patent on a device (process??) that allows the IP data to pass around
> transformers in 1999 (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-1494768.html) and
> was expected to demonstrate a fully functional system, but has yet to do so.
> (their http://www.mediafusionllc.com/ site is 'under construction')
> 
> AFAIK, nobody has successfully demonstrated high bandwidth IP data over
> power circuits without dramatically altering the transformers currently in
> place.  This is the real key to this technologies success.  Having to
> replace millions of transformers currently on the grid will make this
> technology as expensive as Fiber to the Home
> (http://www.wbsmith.com/fiber.html) without most of the benefits.
>