If contracted, the virus can shut down the computer, giving unrestricted file access, and automatically spreading between networked PCs. Channel 5's Saturday morning kids' show the Powerpuff Girls is the latest victim of the Funlove virus which...
This, by the way, is how a viral infection rapidly becomes an epidemic - sneezing or skin contact is an exponential spreading mechanism! But there are other, similar laws for optical fibre bandwidth, network capacity and so on.
At a modest estimate, over $200m has been expended to date and no one has been successful in transmitting significant amounts of data over power cables to the home. Power cables employ low-grade plastic that is unfriendly to high-frequency signals...
For instance, FC over optical technologies such as wave division multiplexing (WDM) can mean distances of nearly 200km. Fibre Channel (FC), the dominant communications technology for SANs, is increasingly under the strain of distance.
The opposing technology approaches are orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and direct sequence (DS)-UWB. UWB addresses the same cable replacement market as Bluetooth technology but with theoretical speeds from 100Mbps to over 2Gbps...
Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies.