"Audio/Video Networks" are an extension of all the work I did in both the telecom world and the later Firewire effort. Right now the networking community is enhancing Ethernet bridges (better known as "switches") to provide the same kind of streaming quality of service that makes Firewire so attractive for digital camcorders and professional audio gear. For various irrelevent electropolitical reasons, this was originally known as "Residential Ethernet", but rationality triumphed and the project is now known as "Audio/Video Bridging". Until we bring in the wireless (802.11) crowd, this can be thought of as an enhanced version of IEEE 802.3/802.1Q (Ethernet and 802 bridges) that supports the kind of low-latency and guaranteed quality of service (QoS) that is needed for many consumer electronics applications. The work is now being done by the 802.1 "Audio/Video Bridging Task Group"