The G.hn standard for wired home networks has been approved by the Telecommunication Union's Telecommunications sector (ITU-T), and is being touted as "the one global standard" but it faces competition from others.

The International Telecommunication Union's telecomms standards arm (ITU-T) has agreed upon the key components of the G.hn specification for carrying broadband communications, and other types of traffic over in-home mains wiring  

The Federal and Tasmanian governments have confirmed that the build-out of the National Broadband Network will begin in Tasmania. Construction is expected to begin in July.

Universal Powerline Association & HomeGrid Forum have agreed to support the ITU's recently released G.hn standard for broadband networking over domestic power, coax and phone lines.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released a new standard that will enable communications over phone, power and coaxial cables in the home at up to 700Mbps for the delivery of bandwidth intensive multimedia content.

IBM is to provide the project management for a major build of Broadband over Power Line (BPL) networks in rural areas of the eastern United States for International Broadband Electric Communications (IBEC).

Options for transferring multimedia content around the home of the future are proliferating rapidly and Australia's NICTA is hoping its technology will find a lucrative niche.

Networking hardware vendor Netgear has announced a recall of its XE103 Powerline Ethernet Adapter made for Europe and other countries, including Australia, which use 220-240 volt power sources. About 82,000 of the adapters have been sold to date and the recall has been initiated becuase of a potential overheating issue.

Market research firm In-Stat claims that broadband over powerline (BPL) networking is emerging as a winner in the race for multimedia home networking worldwide, and the leading manufacturer of BPL chipsets agrees, naturally.

Broadband over powerline chip maker DS2 claims that its broadband over powerline chipset is the only one with sufficiently low latency and sufficient throughput to enable online gamers to interact in real time with others over their broadband networks.