Agreement promotes wireline networking standardisation
18 March 2009
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The Universal Powerline Association (UPA) and the HomeGrid Forum have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the joint research, development and commercialisation of networking technologies and products with the goal of ensuring coexistence, interoperability and specification compliance.
The UPA is an industry consortium providing a forum for the development of interoperable and open specifications to cover all powerline markets and applications, while the HomeGrid Forum is a global, non-profit trade group promoting the International Telecommunication Union’s G.hn standardisation efforts for multimedia over coax, power and phone lines.
Under the multiyear agreement, the organisations will cooperate to create a single MAC and PHY protocol for transporting multimedia across a home’s existing wiring. In December 2008 the G.hn standard group reached consent on a single PHY protocol for next generation wireline technologies. Dovetailing with this, the UPA last year began development of PowerMAX, its next generation specification process for 400 Mbps+ powerline communications networking.
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