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The One And Only

Entrepreneur, Feb, 2000 by Gene Koprowski

Find the right connection and say goodbye to all the rest.

Running a growing business means never being able to say "I have enough phone lines and Internet connections to accommodate all my employees." Far from it, the task of adding more and more lines for your multiplying staff may seem like all you do these days.

But the computer industry is rapidly adopting a specification that's changing all that, leading to new products that enable small and home-based businesses to create networks to run their printers, Internet connections and the telephones all on one line with 10MB of networking speed.

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The move toward the standard is being coordinated by San Ramon, California-based Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA). The new standard, called Version 2.0, is expected to be approved by the time you read this. The standard provides networking speeds of up to 10Mbps, up from the earlier specification of just 1 Mbps per second.

"With the rise of Internet access, the need for networking solutions has increased dramatically," says Boyd Peterson, vice president of consumer communications at the Yankee Group, a computer industry research and consulting company that does industry analyses for HomePNA. Indeed, the homebased business networking market alone is expected to grow to $1.4 billion by 2003, according to Cahners InStat Group.

Gene Koprowski has covered the tech industry for 10 years and writes a monthly computing column for The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.

Business Services Industry

The One And Only

Entrepreneur, Feb, 2000 by Gene Koprowski

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