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From: guillaum@shiva.trl.oz (andrew guillaume)
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Subject: Re: CEBus?
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Date: 1 Aug 90 23:02:26 GMT
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In article <90212.090656J0S@psuvm.psu.edu> J0S@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I recently saw an Ad. for a book claiming to describe the installation of
>the CEBus in a house (price: $149.00!!).  What is the CEBus?  Where can
>I obtain detailed information at a reasonable price?

The CEBus is the EIA (Electronic Industries Association) Home Automation
Standard Consumer Electronic Bus. I posted a request to the net
(sci.electronics) about a week ago, asking whether anybody knew the
status of the Standard, but I haven't had a response yet !!!
The CEBus has various types of media : power line, twisted pair, coax,
infra red, radio freq., and fiber optics. To date, the only info I have
is a draft interim Standard from the EIA (document EIA IS-60), which
was released for balloting. It only addresses the power line media, but
describes Data Link Layer, Node Network Layer and Application Layer (the
CEBus model is based on OSI). I was particularly interested in finding out
more about the twisted pair media, and had asked whether anyone out there
knew whether the physical layer had been defined. As I said : no response.

You can get info from the EIA at a reasonable price I understand (it's
under the $50 mark), but I wish you good luck. I've been trying to get the
info from the EIA for some time now, with no success. Maybe the EIA
doesn't want to talk to us Aussies :-)

If anybody can shed more light on the subject, I'd appreciate. I'm
interested in any information, even if it is only interim.
Email me, or fax me or post here !
Thanks in advance

Andrew Guillaume
Internet address : a.guillaume@trl.oz.au

Telecom Australia Research Laboratories,
770 Blackburn Road
Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Phone +61 3 541 6743, Fax +61 3 543 3339