BPL home entertainment application

Broadband over Powerlines (BPL) is now being claimed as the way to go for multi-room audio systems and superior to existing wireless solutions.

At the prestigious CeBIT trade show for information and telecommunications technology in Hannover Germany (3-8 March), a product has been launched by Arkados and devolo AG that is called a dLAN Audio World.

It is an in-house BPL HomePlug based system that extends music throughout a building via the mains power wiring. Arkados and devolo AG claim their product delivers a ‘longer range and more reliable quality-of-service than any other wireless solutions in the market’.

It transfers digital music directly from an iPod, internet radio, computer of any sources and connects it up to four rooms.

One of the world’s suppliers of BPL products, devolo, has teamed up with chip maker Arkados to create the new product they claim is the solution offering ‘whole-house music that sounds great’.

Arkados has also commended US President Barack Obama and the Congress for ear-marking $4.5 billion towards smart grid technology and $7.3 billion to expand broadband into rural or under-served communities.

The company claims to have already done the required research and development to enable it to deliver smart grid (including smart meters) and rural BPL broadband systems.

From Amateur Radio Victoria News www.amateurradio.com.au