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To: Valueman who wrote (722)	12/14/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) of 1782

The history of home networking goes back to the mid 80s, and prior, when several players were working on various LAN-like architectures to meet what they saw as a soho boom. They were a little early, and off the mark to a great extent, but they gave it a try. One that I was somewhat familiar with due to a brother of mine's involvement at the time (when he wasn't fiddling with HDTV coax algorithm encoding schemes) was the "Home Bus" by Philips. It was a scheme which depended entirely on twisted pair distribution to replace coax if I'm not mistaken (through impedance matching devices called bal/uns, which stood for balanced/unbalanced transformers, where TV and video monitors were concerned), and various frequency division muxing schemes over twisted pair for other appliances throughout the home. Interference problems were a b.. bear, as I reall. Cat 5 hadn't been invented yet, and special shielded cabling was prescribed.

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