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HomePlug
Member Companies Arkados Asoka Aztech Devolo DIRECTV GigaFast Intel Intellon IOGEAR LEA NETCEAR Solwise SPiDCOM ST&T Yitran ZyXEL HomePlug
Product Spotlight Aztech HL109E 200Mbps
HomePlug AV Ethernet Adaptor with Simple Connect
The
Aztech HL109E 200Mbps HomePlug Powerline Adapter
with "Simple Connect"
provides No New Wires communications to any rooms, over any powerline wires, at
speeds of up to 200Mbps – using the “Simple Connect” push button! The Aztech HL109E "Simple Connect"
enables automated unique password generation, making pairing up two or more
HL109E units securely simple with three easy steps. With transfer
rates of 200Mbps, the Aztech adapter can easily
support full multimedia home networking throughout the whole house, including
simultaneous HD and SD video distribution, whole-house audio, VoIP and high-speed Internet, as well as data networking.
Read what the
industry is saying about HomePlug Technology! “I tried Actiontec's MegaPlug AV 200
Mbps Ethernet Adapter Kit…I wondered if the MegaPlug
gear would work in my office, loaded with uninterruptible power supplies and
filtered power strips. Maybe these devices--or any device emitting an RF
signal--would affect the MegaPlug units. No need to
worry; nothing bothered the MegaPlug device.” - PC World, Steve
Bass Technical
Papers HomePlug AV
Whitepaper: Click here HomePlug AV 1.0 PLC Cross Phase
Coupling: Click here Recent Events 2008 International CES CCNC 2008 Connections December 4-6, 2007 MoCA
Technology Conference & Open House November 14-15,
2007 Renaissance Austin Austin, Texas Upcoming Events DistribuTECH 2008 CeBIT 2008 March 4-9, 2008 Please visit www.HomePlug.org for more
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President’s
Letter Matthew
Theall, Intel Corporation
In November, the HomePlug is also continuing to make good progress towards
establishing an IEEE standard for powerline. As mentioned in our last
newsletter, only the merged HomePlug/Panasonic proposal remains in the IEEE
P1901 work group for in-home and access powerline communication technologies.
HomePlug has had many conference calls and in-person meetings with access
companies and others, to understand their requirements and ensure they are
comprehended in the joint proposal. Our goal is to end up with a powerline
technology that is fully interoperable with HomePlug AV that also meets the
industries needs for unique access features. As we move towards a
confirmation vote in IEEE 1901, we will continue to keep you posted on these
exciting developments. Finally, last week the HomePlug Alliance and our member
company sponsors Arkados, Asoka, GigaFast, Intellon, ST&T,
Yitran, and ZyXEL demonstrated some great new
products and technology at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show
in
Feature Story:
Contributed by SPiDCOM Technologies The HomePlug Europe work group has had an exciting end to
2007! While its member companies actively contributed, maximizing the benefit
of being privilege sponsor at the Net-atHome trade show (November 13-15 in
Nice, France), they also organized an Executive Seminar, taking place
November 15th, collocated with Net-atHome and a press tour in
France, Germany and the UK. President Matt Theall opened the HomePlug week in Nice
with a keynote address that was one of the most anticipated of the Net-atHome
show; nearly every seat in the room was filled. During his speech, Theall
pointed out that HomePlug sales have been doubling every year since 2005 –
from three million in November 2005 to six million in November 2006 to 12
million in November 2007. He is convinced that this track is going to
accelerate as the HomePlug/Panasonic merged proposal is now the sole
candidate baseline for the IEEE worldwide standard and that this
specification is compatible with HomePlug AV products already in the
marketplace. Theall’s keynote sparked the
attraction of many visitors to the HomePlug booth, where sponsor companies
Arkados, Asoka, Intellon and LEA showcased their HomePlug products. The HomePlug Executive Seminar, held two days later, was
the perfect complement to delve into technical, business and strategic
details. Top level presenters from technology providers, product
manufacturers and operators utilizing HomePlug technologies highlighted the Executive Seminar sponsors Arkados, Asoka, Intellon,
GigaFast, LEA and SPiDCOM all demonstrated new
products and technologies in the product showcase. LEA showcased several
products including three new NetPlug offerings
utilizing Intellon chipsets – the NetPlug85+, NetPlug200+ and NetPlug200
Socket. Additionally, they demonstrated their NetStrip
PLC power strip products, the NetStrip200 and NetStrip
Lite, as well as their NetPower
PLC power supply products, the NetPower200 25W and 50W. Intellon chipsets
were also utilized in Solwise’s 200Mbps HomePlug AV
Ethernet Adaptor with Simple Connect.
Whole-house audio products, coming to market from devolo
and IOGEAR, were displayed by Arkados whose system-on-chip HomePlug solutions
are embedded in those devices. Engineers, business people and consultants meet together
during these kinds of professional trade shows and executive seminars, and
the HomePlug Europe Working Group aims to educate European consumers. The This goal was the main motivation for organizing a
European press tour in “These journalists will join the growing number of people
that now know about HomePlug products and how they can change their home
networking experience,” said Frederic Onado from SPiDCOM
Technologies, who was recently named Vice President, EMEA for HomePlug. “When
they think about home networking, they think about HomePlug. Our goal is to
spread this statement around and to educate the greatest number of consumers
possible.” Feature Story:
When DIRECTV decided they wanted their new On Demand
service to provide the ultimate ease-of-use for their customers, they looked
no further than HomePlug. Following an announcement in August that Intellon’s
HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo powerline communications IC was to provide No New
Wires® connectivity for DIRECTV’s video on demand service, DIRECTV is now
providing HomePlug connectivity via HomePlug adapters and power strips to
select customers’ set-top boxes. Because routers are not often near a consumer’s television
and wireless is too unreliable for streaming HD, DIRECTV’s Broadband Connect
program allows customers to download content through their new video on
demand service and watch at their leisure. The set-up and usage is simple –
customers are shipped a kit that includes a HomePlug adapter and a power
strip; the DIRECTV box is plugged into the power strip and HomePlug adapter;
this connects the DVR system to the broadband ‘cloud’ and allows the DVR system
to connect to the internet through the HomePlug adapter. The content is not
actually streamed in real time; the content “trickle charges” from the
Internet to the DVR to the hard drive. While not every DIRECTV subscriber is using the HomePlug
offering, the Broadband Connect program demonstrates the foresight of DIRECTV
in showing that HomePlug technology is the best way to connect to the
broadband gateway consumers have at home. With Wi-Fi, a subscriber’s link
could go down, and the subscriber simply wouldn’t know it until they wanted
to watch their downloaded content. This new development helps cap off an
already exciting year for the HomePlug Alliance! Feature Story:
Contributed
by Yitran Communications The world is using more electricity than ever due to the
ever rising number of electronic devices in our homes. In the past, utilities
have tried to “build” solutions in the form of more power plants or
considered sources of energy that are environmentally out of the question,
i.e. coal. As the global corporate consciousness has shifted, there is now a
push towards ‘green energy.’ Business leaders are forming alliances around building
‘clean and green,’ seeking low-cost, high result, reliable technologies for
energy conservation and efficiency. Utility Commissions are moving to change
the power equation with more efficient distribution and conservation
strategies, as well as standards and regulations that include minimum technology
requirements for the tools used to accomplish this. It is in this environment of forward thinking and progress
that HomePlug Command and Control and HomePlug BPL technologies are poised to
make a significant impact as ‘Green Energy Enabled.’ HPCC is more than an
application for home automation of appliances, lighting, and security. In
fact, HPCC forms the foundation of a nearly unlimited variety of
applications; from implementing new government regulations for power
conservation to remote home access for the every day consumer. By lowering a thermostat during peak demand
times, remote monitoring to indicate lower tariff hours, street light
control, automatic and remote meter reading and more, HPCC stands to provide
a real, existing, robust and dependable technology to meet both today’s and
tomorrow’s energy needs. By providing backhaul to the HPCC traffic, HomePlug
BPL enables the utility to reliably control these applications in real time
and enhance them to support Demand Response and Distribution Automation.
HomePlug's two complementing technologies provide the end-to-end
infrastructure for a full Smart Grid solution for modernizing the utility
grids for the 21st century. HomePlug HomePlug HomePlug http://www.homeplug.org/news/pr/view?item_key=090b9cd38207bc29fff92664f6822df8cf9cf40e
HomePlug
Powerline Alliance Demonstrates New Innovations at CES 2008 as HomePlug
Global Shipments Now Exceed 15 Million Products Member Company
News: Asoka Introduces
Performance Test Tools for Powerline Networking Industry http://www.asokausa.com/company/press/01072008a.php
IOGEAR Lets
Music Fans Rock From the Kitchen to the Living Room http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-07-2008/0004731470&EDATE=
ZyXEL Simplifies
Connectivity With Award Winning Solutions At CES http://www.us.zyxel.com/web/news_news.php?sqno=482
ZyXEL Extends
Industry's Most Comprehensive Powerline Product Offering With The New HomePlug
AV Digital Media Adapter http://www.us.zyxel.com/web/news_news.php?sqno=481
NETGEAR(R)
Enables the 'All Access Home' at CES 2008 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080106/aqsu001a.html?.v=2
Yitran to
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