The Veterans Affairs Department, perhaps the largest federal agency to make a big push for mobile devices, has settled on security at the application layer, a course that the largest potential federal buyer, the Defense Department, is unlikely to copy.

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The HomePlug AV2 specification is expected to deliver a 5x increase in performance over current HomePlug AV solutions at the application layer to offer significant improvements in whole home coverage to guarantee reliable delivery of throughput intensive applications such as multiple streams of 1080p HD video (and emerging 3D and 4K HD) broadband Internet, Internet gaming and security camera video over existing electrical wiring.

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Another application of the game layer in the world of education is already in use at a number of schools, including Princeton University (Priebatsch attended Princeton for a year, and then dropped out).

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