Alliance Overview
HomePlug is an industry Alliance comprised of industry leaders at each level of the value chain - from Technology to Services & Content. The Alliance members bring necessary capabilities and a financial commitment to the successful launch of the technology.
| Service and Content | New services, content to pull demand for network devices, requirements for network to support services, usage models, provisioning, customer care. |
| Retail | Channels for sales & support of networked devices, installation and support services, consumer education. |
| Hardware | Connected devices to enable new classes of services via the internet or other networks – PC, CE, Networking. |
| Software | Software services and applications to simplify setup and use of the network. |
| Silicon | Cost effective silicon with a variety of feature sets to support a broad variety of products. |
| Technology | Enabling technology that meets requirements for performance, cost, and is scalable to future generations. |
The Alliance's mission is to enable and promote rapid availability, adoption and implementation of cost effective, interoperable and standards-based home powerline networks and products.
"HomePlug Standard Brings Networking to the Home," by Steve Gardner (HomePlug TWG Chair), Brian Markwalter, and Larry Yonge.
This article provides an in depth overview of the HomePlug technology. It discusses the merits of power line based home networking in comparison to available options, and addresses the challenges of communicating in the power line environment, where time varying interference and frequency selective impairments require sophisticated signal processing techniques. It then describes how HomePlug's technology meets those challenges.
