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             Overview 
            Adding new wires to network information appliances brings to mind 
              the tearing down of existing walls, carpeting and floors to lay 
              in place wires. However adding new wires also provides a key advantage 
              - the higher data transfer rates can support the networking of multiple 
              appliances and seamless data, voice, and video transfer. 
            Data transfer rates for some of the popular new wire interfaces 
              are:  
            
              - RS-232: 115 Kbps
 
              - Parallel port: 920 Kbps
 
              - IDE interface bus: 133.6 Mbps
 
              - USB: 12 Mbps
 
              - USB 2.0: 480 Mbps
 
              - IEEE 1394 / FireWire: 400 Mbps
 
              - Ethernet: 10 Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps
 
             
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