Powerline broadband gets financial boost
News On Wednesday, the companies threw their weight behind a group called the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, which develops standards and specifications for businesses and service providers offering broadband-over-power-line (BPL) service into the home.
[August 25, 2005, 16:20]
Powerline networking charges up
News Powerline networking is based on the HomePlug Powerline Alliance's HomePlug 1.0.1 standard, which allows devices such as PCs and access points to connect to a network through existing electrical wiring and outlets in a home.
[March 10, 2003, 10:57]
Home networking gets a jump start from new tech
News They will be first to market and have a year jump on HomePlug products. The group, called the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, recently chose a technology by little-known company Intellon as the basis of its standard.
[January 5, 2001, 9:20]
Power outlets may feed home networking
News The HomePlug Powerline Alliance, which includes Cisco Systems, Intel, RadioShack, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard, among others, has spent the past year working on a standard for using homes' internal electrical network to link electronic devices.
[June 26, 2001, 11:55]
Networking card taps into powerlines
News The device meets the HomePlug standard. LANergy, the specialist in LANs over existing power wiring, demonstrated a so-called powerline networking card at Networks and Telecoms on Tuesday that will make the technology price-competitive against...
[June 25, 2002, 14:53]
Home networking? Keep it simple
News Software that makes for easier integration of network components is also being developed, and new network technologies like IEEE 802.11b and HomePlug mean users need no longer install special cabling.
[November 13, 2001, 12:51]
Comdex: Tracking the product trends Pt II
News Representatives of other network technologies, including Sharewave and HomePlug, will likely be somewhere at Comdex, but because they still won't have products until 2001, you won't find much of a presence on the show floor.
[November 13, 2000, 8:56]
Win a ZyXEL connectivity bundle review
Reviews The 'HomePlug' PL-100 allows the creation of a secure LAN across existing power lines, providing network speeds of up to 85Mbps. The ZyXEL Christmas connectivity bundle includes a Wi-Fi VoIP phone, a MIMO router, a pair of Powerline Ethernet...
[December 15, 2006, 8:32]
Actiontec Wireless-Ready Multimedia Home Gateway review
Reviews The top slot supports 802.11b, which lets you wirelessly communicate with other devices at speeds up to 11Mbit/s within a 100-metre range via radio waves; the bottom slot adds other networking flavours, including HomePNA, HomePlug and Bluetooth.
[November 18, 2001, 23:00]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog All this was taking place in a low-ceilinged ballroom — OK, basement — of the San Francisco Marriott, and by the time the Homeplug mains networking chap had won the buzzword bingo we were beginning to feel like the slaves locked in with King Tut's...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Networking products for your business review
Reviews These include phone-line (HPNA 2.0) and power-line (HomePlug) networking -- both of which piggyback on existing wires in a home or an office. Not long ago, if you wanted to connect a few PCs and a printer in a small office, you had only one messy...
[January 5, 2004, 14:35]
