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To: SOROS who wrote (497)	11/27/1999 12:08:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

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To: SOROS who wrote (497)	11/27/1999 12:45:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 1782

re: Media Fusion Soros, AHhaha, This appears to be another transport variant which claims to be able to leverage power lines. This time the scheme seems to be through the modulation of data onto magnetic fields associated with current flowing through the wires, and beyond, onto the grids. In addition to their url (which provides scant data for such a monumental set of claims) see the following article and let's hear what you think. dmagazine.com There is also a Media Fusion thread that's been started here on SI: Subject 29139 And I understand that they've received a patent within the last week or two, or they've filed one.. not sure. If anyone has a good feel for what the essence of their claims are, I'd like to read about them, in English, preferably. And if anyone can counter those claims through argument using understandable language, please feel free to elaborate here. TIA, Frank

To: SOROS who wrote (497)	11/27/1999 1:01:00 AM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

At the very least, partial bull. It absolutely does not address the multiple access issue on such a grand scale (i.e. the world is one bridged LAN). No mention of routing or synchronization either (apparently because it implies all data is everywhere all the time—all 100 tera-giga bits, or whatever the claim is). Hmmm, that puts an awfully large processing burden on the endpoints, i.e. the consumer. Awfully large is putting it mildly…..very very VERY mildly. Like a trillion 500MHz packet processors operating in parallel-—PER ENDPOINT-—just to weed out the few packets destined for you. Perhaps the base transport of data at some greatly reduced rate can be accomplished with the method, as described in US Patent 5982276: Magnetic field based power transmission line communication method and system, issued 11/9/99. Even if we assume that's true, I don't see how it expands to massive global capacity. In other words, I don't think it even matters if the transport functions as claimed because there are missing elements above it that make it non-workable at anything close to the claimed performance. This is the extent of the mention of routing in the patent, at the bottom of page 12: "Conventional information protocol or IP addressing is used to correctly route the information to the designated subscribers.” That's it. One sentence. No mention of multiple access either. Might be interesting for home LANs though.