HomePlug Powerline Alliance

Service Providers are continuing to voice support of Homeplug technology as the long term solution for powerline home networking.

According to Carol Wilson of Light Reading, "G.hn, the home networking standard whose physical architecture was adopted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) earlier this month, is not getting rave reviews from some broadband service providers because of concern that the standard lacks backward compatibility with existing home network technologies, particularly HomePlugAV, the powerline home network".

The solution is simple. A planned Amendment to the G.hn PHY is currently under discussion in ITU. That Amendment must ensure compatibility with HomeplugAV.

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=183799&f_src=lightreading_gnews