Broadband powerline manufacturers back new standard

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 09 November 2005 15:56

Business IT - Technology

A number of leading manufacturers of broadband over powerline technology: DS2, Mitsubishi, Schneider Electric, Sumitomo, Ascom, EdP and Corinex have lined up behind the recently finalised European BPL standard, OPERA.

DS2, a leading supplier of BPL chipsets, has presented at the 6th International Power line Communications Conference in Lisbon, a migration path showed how any BPL product based on its 200Mbps chips will comply with the OPERA specification.

The specification, the fruit of a two year effort and an outlay in excess of 20 million euros by the European Union backed consortium, will be the first open powerline specification.

 The launch date of the specification, which is currently under development by the Open PLC European Research Alliance, was recently announced for December.