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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 Ethernet to provide power and data(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: chalk This article was interesting in that supplying power along with data would greatly simplify that ever growing mess of cables, not to mention the advantages for laptops. Not having to deal with batteries in laptops would make them much easier to carry, and even more slim. I also read somewhere that for the first time ever, laptop sales outpaced desktop sales... Chalk --------------- BBC News Online 7/9/03 Powered data networks By Mark Ward BBC News Online technology correspondent 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...instead of needing adapters, computer networks could soon be supplying the devices they interconnect with both data and power. Typically devices linked together by an ethernet network only use it to swap data back and forth. But soon the basic ethernet specifications could be extended to allow both power and data to be sent over the same wires. ...electric plugs, power outlets and voltages were different all over the world but ethernet used the same small range of connectors and cables no matter where it was installed...the RJ45 connector is a universal outlet... ---------------------- rest of the article at: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3054894.stm[/url] Posted by: Don Fudleone Wow, that would be a big step. Can't wait. Don Fudleone vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |