Phoneline Group Releases Spec.(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, December, 1999 by MENEZES, BILL

The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance has released its new standard for 10 megabits-per-second devices, and vendors already are taking advantage of it. The HPNA standards, created by several networking hardware and software vendors, aim to provide a foundation for a slew of products that can link a variety of electronic devices -- such as PCs, printers and video players -- while also distributing broadband Internet access throughout a home via existing telephone wiring.

Several manufacturers are already marketing products based on the HPNA 1.0 standard specifying 1 mbps data speeds. The new, backwardcompatible 2.0 version released last week passes data at 10 mbps speeds, equivalent to an Ethernet network. This provides beefier support for such...

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