HomePlug Powerline Alliance today announced that the joint proposal, submitted by HomePlug member companies and Panasonic, is the sole MAC/PHY proposal remaining in the IEEE P1901 work group process for creating an international standard for in-home and access powerline communication technologies.
At a meeting held two weeks ago in Boston, the voting process implemented by members of the IEEE P1901 work group voted to support the HomePlug/Panasonic proposal over competing proposals, paving the way for industry unification and greater market growth.
The merged proposal offers the efficiency of a single MAC and the flexibility to support both the HomePlug AV and HD-PLC PHYs. Future products based on the merged 1901 proposal can be fully interoperable with existing HomePlug AV or Panasonic HD-PLC products.
"We created specifications for a technology that would meet the stringent feature requests of service providers and equipment manufacturers the world over," says Matthew Theall, President of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance and Intel's Powerline Initiative Manager. "The IEEE P1901 work group was comprised of many of these international companies that plan to implement this technology in applications such as HDTV, audio, surveillance, computer networking, broadband access and smart-grid solutions. As the process continues, we expect to work with members of the IEEE community and demonstrate how this technology fully serves each of these applications and more."
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