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Telecommunications EC to fund broadband over powerline development
Telecommunications EC to fund broadband over powerline development | EC to fund broadband over powerline development |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 22 February 2007 | |
      
Over the next two years (2007 - 2008), the objective of OPERA Phase II will be to catalyse the deployment of low cost broadband access applications over electricity networks for a wide range of applications that include: broadband internet access; e-learning; telephony (VoIP and TDMoPLC); smart home; new intelligent grid services (ems, amm, etc…); video on demand; security; e-health The specification adopted in OPERA phase 1 is based on technology fror\m Spanish BPL chip maker, DS2, and it provides throughput of 200 Mbps. The specification was developed by a consortium of 37 companies that included silicon vendors, equipment vendors, electric utilities, telecom operators and universities from 10 countries. According to the EC, "this specification, the only open, global specification for access BPL, generated valuable contributions that have been submitted to the powerline standardisation work underway in both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The OPERA specification has also been endorsed by the Universal Powerline Association (UPA), the leading powerline communications industry body driving the acceptance of open standards for access BPL and home networking applications over Powerline." OPERA Phase II will contribute field research to both IEEE and ETSI "confirming the importance of the work undertaken in developing and validating the specification for the deployment of access BPL." The Consortium supporting OPERA Phase II is made up of 26 partners (including eight universities and research centres) from 11 different countries and is led by the Spanish utility power utility Iberdrola.{moscomment}
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