200Mbps HomePlug AV Spec. Ready For 'Final Industry Input'

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
The HomePlug Powerline Alliance said today that it is "entering the final stage of the specification development process for HomePlug AV".
The Alliance has compled the "advanced preliminary specification" for HomePlug AV, and is now inviting companies to join the alliance and contribute to the final version of the specification, to be hammered out by the newly-created Specification Working Group (SWG). The group will hold its first meeting on October 27th and October 28th in Dallas, Texas. The Alliance said the advanced preliminary specification for HomePlug AV is the result of a combined effort of "leading proponents" of powerline technologies. The spec. is said to provide "200-Mbps class" networking that has both scheduled access (TDMA) with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees, and contention access (CSMA). The spec. is also said to support "advanced network management functions" capable of supporting plug-and-play, user and service provider set-up and configuration and have "co-existence modes" supporting Broadband over Powerline (BPL) co-existence, multi-network operation, hidden node service, and backward compatibility with HomePlug 1.0.
Source: Tom's Networking
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