News.com heeft een nieuwsbericht over een bedrijf dat een of andere super snelle netwerk technologie aan het ontwikkelen is dat via het elektriciteitsnet werkt:
A Dallas-based company called Media Fusion says this dream may be less than a year away. The company's technology is still in the laboratory stage, but significant questions remain about its viability in real markets. Yet if it does work, the technology could radically reshape a communications landscape now dominated by telephone and cable companies.Media Fusion is developing technology it says can send data, voice, or video signals over electric power lines, at speeds vastly exceeding current cable modem or telephone systems. Where cable or telephone companies talk in terms of megabits per second, Media Fusion talks of the possibility of transmitting exobits--that's a "1" with eighteen zeros after it--per second though power lines. [break]Het idee van een netwerk verbinding via het stopcontact is op zich niets nieuws, maar de snelheid die ze hier vermelden is wel véél hoger dan eerder genoemd:[/break] In discussions with financial backers and potential political supporters, the company has said individual consumers could get network connections of 2.5 gigabits per second--an estimate the company calls highly conservative.
Tweeëneenhalf Gigabit per sec! Da's lekker 
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