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A serial connection technology that promises to speed data at 200-800Mbps and up. Digital video camera manufacturers and Apple have embraced this connection standard. It is also available on PCs, but adoption is not as widespread.
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1394 IEEE standard - In article , Dale Neiburg wrote: Wired telephone service stayed up throughout.Just picking up on this sentence to speak out once again on what amassive contribution just maintaining some level of elementarytelephone communications can make in any kind of disaster or emergency-- to individuals, to families, to businesses, to medical emergencies,to emergency services, to disaster recovery, to every aspect ofsociety.And, a major problem is that those supposedly marvelous "free marketforces" so beloved of some ideologues will *never* give this to us.If these services (cell phone service in particular) are to stay inoperation to the maximum extent reasonably possible in a massive poweroutage, major weather event, or other disaster, they have to bedesigned, built, and operated with that as a major designconsideration -- and that will only happen if society, acting throughgovernment, *mandates* that this has to happen.The above may come across as a rant -- but I personally don't think itis. I think it's worth saying over and over that these services --cell phone service in particular -- *should* keep working in all butatom bomb level disasters, and we should demand that they be built andoperated with that in mind (even more so since our electrical powersystem is clearly not going to be operated to adequate levels ofreliability).[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We are now twenty years intodivestiture and I still have the mixed feelings I had about it when itfirst came up. *Certainly* there were many things wrong with the old'Bell System'; it is almost certain we would not have had the techno-logical advances in telephony we have had in the past twenty years ifBell had gone unchallenged -- but! -- they were very good and veryreliable in many ways, and for the most part, less expensive. How timeflies! This Digest began in 1981, two years *before* divestiture,when the Bell System was the boss. Maybe I should research thearchives and pull a couple of the twenty year old messages during thedays immediatly following the divestiture. PAT]
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