IEEE work on BPL issues

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is likely to complete its work on a draft standard for Broadband over Powerlines (BPL) and put it to a vote by the end of the year.

Chair of the IEEE P1901 working group, Jean-Philippe Faure said the draft standard will use transmission frequencies below 100MHz and be developed over the next several months.

The IEEE has through its working group achieved a baseline of the ‘Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications’.

The IEEE which encompasses the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields has developed nearly 900 activity industry standards.

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