Motorola to combine BPL with BWA

Stuart Corner
Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:46

Your IT - Home IT

Motorola has become an investor in Intellon Corporation, a provider of chipsets for broadband over powerline communications systems conforming to the HomePlug standard, and intends to combine these with its Canopy broadband wireless access technology to provide a complete broadband access system.
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Intellon currently offers chips for the established and widely deployed HomePlug 1.0 standard and recently introduced its HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo chipset, offering additional performance gains to meet the demands of emerging content distribution applications such as IPTV, whole-house audio and VoIP traffic management. Later this year, Intellon will introduce its HomePlug AV 200Mbps chipset, the INT6000..
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Motorola intends to use the current Intellon chipset, the INT5200 to produce an access point integrated with its Canopy wireless equipment, under the product name Powerline LV. According to reports, the company has said that "Only three pieces of equipment are needed to connect a customer to the [Canopy] broadband network: the Powerline LV access point cluster, an integrated antenna and bridge router, and an Intellon-enabled modem."