word1
@optonline.net | reply to RayW
Re: We don`t need another North American Blackout
remeber this article?
911 dials IP technology
»news.com.com/911+dials+IP+techno···770.html |
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aonymous2
@optonline.net
| BPL is for Smart Grid- this is the main purpose
I like to share some tidbits of this article:
"TXU and CURRENT Communications to Create Nation’s First Multipurpose Smart Grid
Broadband Over Power Line Network to Be Available to Serve Approximately Two Million Texas Homes and Businesses
DALLAS, TX and GERMANTOWN, MD (December 19, 2005) — TXU Electric Delivery, the nation’s sixth largest electric transmission and distribution company and a subsidiary of TXU Corp. and CURRENT Communications Group, LLC, the nation’s leading provider of broadband over power line (BPL) solutions, today announced an agreement to transform TXU Electric Delivery’s power distribution network into the nation’s first broadband-enabled Smart Grid.
CURRENT will design, build and operate the BPL network covering the majority of the TXU Electric Delivery service area, including approximately two million homes and businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and other Texas communities. This modernized grid will dramatically enhance TXU Electric Delivery’s ability to deliver top-decile electric service reliability and provide the potential for additional products and services from retail electric providers that will enable businesses and consumers to manage their electricity usage and costs." |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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Article has one issue. How do you deliver the IP to call 911? OOOPSEY!
Also, those cell sites can't last forever on batteries and some parts of New Orleans still don't have any power.
Try again and this time, try to make a coherent argument without cutting and pasting. |
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RayW
Premium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs:
·XMission
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Yes, but IP is still over wires in most places unless you have something like Sprint (a neighbor of mine) that starts off as a radio. WiFi with a mobile PC will be interesting to see what they do with that, GPS may not be too useful in many cases..
Also IP more vulnerable than regular POTS, my DSL goes out with the power, my POTS almost never goes out with the power unless they are on the same pole that gets knocked out.
So once again, the need for Ham radio is still there, in certain circumstances.
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