Technology Companies Form Alliance To Establish Specification For High Speed Powerline Home Networking.(Industry Trend or Event)

Software Industry Report, April, 2000

Thirteen industry leaders 3Com, AMD, Cisco Systems, Compaq, Enikia, Intel, Intellon, Motorola, Panasonic, S3's Diamond Multimedia, Tandy/RadioShack and Texas Instruments spanning technology, silicon, software, hardware, retail and services announced the formation of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, created to set a technology specification for home powerline networking and to promote its wide acceptance in the marketplace. The alliance's objective is to enable and promote rapid availability and adoption of cost effective, interoperable and specification-based home powerline networks and products enabling the connected home.

Home networking via powerlines uses existing power outlets throughout the home. Powerline networking advantages include worldwide...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.