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News Release from: Design of Systems on Silicon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 September 2006
Standardisation is key to powerline
comms
New generation high speed powerline products developed to the UPA DHS standard mark a turning point for the powerline communications industry.
"High-speed products developed to the UPA Digital Home Standard (DHS) specification deliver what consumers and service providers want - secure, easy to use, reliable networking products that are scalable to support and deliver the multimedia high-bandwidth applications that are coming into vogue today such as head to head gaming or HDTV", stated, Victor Dominguez, Director of Standards and Strategy at leading PLC chip provider DS2 who represented the Universal Powerline Association Presidency at the head-to-head standards session during the Net-at-Home conference taking place in Cannes this week Dominguez explained: "New generation high speed powerline products developed to the UPA DHS standard mark a turning point for the powerline communications industry"
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Today 12 differentiated interoperable high-speed powerline products are available from over eight companies for the service provider market and home networking products are now also in retail stores".
"This is proof positive of an emerging market, of industry commitment and it marks a turning point for the PLC industry".
"UPA standards are putting PLC on the map as a multimedia networking technology".
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Commenting on the array of parallel standards initiatives, Dominguez stated: "PLC applications in the home networking market used to be about about the delivery of data".
"Existing standards for this sector of the industry do not support the market demand for multimedia applications".
"Some organisations are scrambling to rework their old standards but you can't fit a square peg into a round hole".
"For PLC to be an alternative network technology today and in the future one must develop with multimedia in mind from the start".
"This is the strength of the UPA DHS standard and the reason why so many companies already have high speed 200Mbit/s product on the market under the UPA label", he added.
The UPA DHS specification provides for compatibility with non-UPA technologies by means of a co-existence mechanism.
UPA has been proposing the coexistence concept as necessity to bridge the various powerline communities and applications since 2005.
UPA has been working with the organisation CEPCA to develop a joint proposal that is now in ETSI.
UPA is also represented at the IEEE powerline initiative where the coexistence requirements proposal is due for ratification.
The UPA coexistence mechanism is a unique feature that guarantees that future versions of UPA technology will be compatible with today's specifications.
Dominguez added: "No one wants to throw good money after bad, everyone - consumers, service providers and equipment providers want to invest in developing a winning solution and the UPA label provides the comfort that one is investing in a scalable business or home network that is built to last".
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