The Car is a Mobile Living Room
Wouldn't it be useful if you could use appliances from home in the car?
Devices such as PC's for work, so that you could use the address book in the computer to make phone calls, play video games or look at digital maps in the back seat ---
Cars too, would be much more useful if they could be customized freely along with the time and situation.
Cars too, would be much more useful if they could be customized freely along with the time and situation.

POF Automobile Network 2001, Finally Reaching Out to the World.
In 1998, the networking of automobiles had begun in Europe.
There is an attempt to provide an environment, beginning with navigation systems, car audio, and phones interconnected to provide a mutual usage system.
POF is used, and the protocol used is [D2B].
The Eska Premierwith its proven high reliability has been selected for use.
For its second phase, the [MOST], which will allow 5 times the amount of information transmission, will kick off this year.
The bandwidth has been increased from 5Mbps to 50Mbps, and will soon jump to 125Mbps.
POF is said to be the best media from an EMI, weight, and environmental standpoint.
All current discussions on specification plans, beginning with the '1394', are being considered with POF as the media

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