Talk:Etherloop

Etherloop vs. EFM 2BASE-TL
Can somebody knowledgeable write a few sentences about the difference between Etherloop and Ethernet in the First Mile's 2BASE-TL? They seem to me to be the same ?? 174.6.87.98 (talk) 02:45, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Hard to tell, since this article has no sources and not much detail. It might just be a neologism that never caught on, or one vendors' product name. Either way it might not be notable by today's standards. A quick US trademark search shows two: ETHERLOOP (all caps, but seems EtherLoop in the ads) was the one applied on September 28, 1998 by Elastic Networks, marked as still active. The other EtherLoop was filed May 7, 2007 but then abandoned less than a year later. Certainly a 1998 technology would not be "next generation" by today's standards. They are all "next generation" when they are first marketed, so that is just peacock wording. Elastic Networks seems to predate the IEEE work, but sometimes standards are based on products (even patented ones) and drop the trademark names or come up with new ones like Wi-Fi. Certainly it is a care of the generic concept of Ethernet in the first mile in the lower case sense, so I will propose a merge. W Nowicki (talk) 19:15, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Also the user Special:Contributions/Dkovacs who created this one also created High Speed Voice and Data Link without any sources except a commercial link, and then has been inactive for four years. Also it looks like Zhone Technologies now is the vendor, and I see a service advertised from ForeThought.net it says since 2008, but no idea if this service uses the technology with the same name. W Nowicki (talk) 19:52, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Telsa Cybertruck
Apparently is using etherloop instead of CAN. Noteworthy? 152.117.104.209 (talk) 20:56, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, absolutely, 152.117.104.209. I'm working on improving the article to just do a decent job of what EtherLoop is, how & why it came about, and what were its initial applications.  When that gets a bit farther along, I def plan to enhance the article with the application of EtherLoop in short-distance motor vehicle applications, of which I believe Cybertruck is the first. N2e (talk) 16:40, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * About 2010 I was writing software for ticketing systems where the ticket processors on the bus/train were connected together via ethernet (for VT and SL in Sweden). Not exactly the same thing as Etherloop and it didn't control anything not related to the ticket processors but something to be aware of.  Stepho  talk 00:30, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ I wrote an initial stub section on the application of this technology to intra-vehicle communication for control & feedback in the recently-entered-production Tesla Cybertruck, and endeavored to capture a good cross section of the claimed benefits. N2e (talk) 19:36, 28 December 2023 (UTC)