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IEEE develops world-wide BPL standardIn the United States, Broadband-Over-Powerline has received words of guidance from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Better known as the IEEE, the assembly of technologists has announced that a working group has developed requirements for a baseline BPL standard that will hopefully mitigate some of the current problems it causes to radio communications. In its statement on March 14th , the IEEE 1901 Working Group said it has developed more than 400 requirements for the BPL standard. It had also issued a June 4th deadline in calling for proposals for technical systems that meet these conditions. This involves protocols that govern how hardware for various applications can share the medium without interfering. Entitled "Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications," the document will hopefully pave the way for sending high-speed digital data over power lines between substations and home and offices with minimal interference to other spectrum users. It will also provide guidelines for the transmission of digital voice, data, and video over electrical lines within structures. With its new standard now released, the IEEE expressed optimism that
a draft global standard could be created in 2008. After that, companies
would have a master plan to guide them to manufacture components and systems
to develop the BPL industry.
Source: ARNewsline, IEEE
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