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Technology Organizations Align to Support United Nations' ITU-T G.hn Standard
February 27, 2009 9:02 PM | 0 comments | 0 TrackBack
Kudos to HomeGrid Forum, who’s just announced new agreements with global technology organizations, Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA), HomePNA Alliance, and Universal Powerline Association (UPA).
- Akio Kurobe, CEPCA President, explained its synergy with HomeGrid. "Our members look forward to working with HomeGrid to ensure the G.hn technology under development will co-exist with powerline technologies in the market and the forthcoming IEEE P1901 powerline standard that includes G.hn technology," said Kurobe.
- "The HomePNA Alliance has been a leader in developing, standardizing, and deploying home networking for IPTV over both coax and phone wires," said William Simmelink, HomePNA president. "We believe the work HomeGrid is doing will help expand the market. Our membership, which includes companies such as AT&T, Motorola, Cisco, and CopperGate, is pleased to join with HomeGrid to bring the best G.hn technology and products to market as soon as possible."
- "UPA is focused on helping in the development of global standards such as ITU-T G.hn for the fast developing powerline communications market," said Daniel Drolet, chairman of the Universal Powerline Association. "Working with HomeGrid Forum is clearly complementary to our own activities, and will allow for a true unified standard, and products that easily interoperate.
AT&T Participating in G.hn Standard Development
February 19, 2009 10:02 PM in Alan Weinkrantz , AT&T , EveryWire , EveryWire.com , G.hn , HomePNA , P1901 , Tom Starr , U-verse , Wired Home Networking | 0 comments | 0 TrackBack
I recently had a chance to visit with Tom Starr, Lead Member of Technical Staff for AT&T. Tom is a recent AT&T award winner.
It stands to reason that the world’s largest telecommunications company would have an interested in G.hn. After all, the company has over 1,000,000 American homes on its HomePNA based wired network that runs its U-verse triple play offering.
After installing this many homes you learn a lot about wiring and the realities that not all homes are wired equally. In a perfect world, you’d have what Tom kept referring to “no new wires,” but the reality is that each home has different wiring types in each room that lend themselves better at connectivity and delivering services.
From day one, Tom has been active and working with the ITU’s development of the G.hn standard (which is now officially called G.9960). He told me that AT&T is watching the development of the G.hn standard for a few reasons:
- Connect to any room no matter what the wiring type may be. Get to a point where the customer can self-install new hardware- something considered to be the holy grail of any video provider
- Have built-in diagnostics and tools that allow for remote manageability and ease of use.
- Have multiple supply sources. And when you have an industry standard like G.hn, you get to a certain point of critical mass where you will have many technology, equipment, parts and product marketers all supplying the channel with compatible and industry standard offerings. This helps grow the industry ecosystem and supply chain.
I’ve been an AT&T U-verse customer for over three years. Some of my readers may also know my 3Screens blog, in which I write a consumer facing blog about AT&T’s three screen strategy.
The Everywire Conversation Part III with Matt Theall, Technology Strategist, Intel and President - HomeGrid Forum
February 05, 2009 5:02 AM in Alan Weinkrantz , G.hn , Intel , ITU , Matt Theall , P1901 , Wired Home Networking | 0 comments | 0 TrackBack
Here is part III in a series of 3 discussions with Matt Theall, Technology Strategist, Intel and President of HomeGrid Forum.
The Everywire Conversation Part II with Matt Theall, Technology Strategist, Intel and President - HomeGrid Forum
February 04, 2009 5:02 AM in Alan Weinkrantz , EveryWire , EveryWire.com , G.hn , HomeGrid Forum , Intel , Matt Theall , P1901 | 0 comments | 0 TrackBack
Here is part II in a series of 3 discussions with Matt Theall, Technology Strategist, Intel and President of HomeGrid Forum.
The Everywire Conversation Part I with Matt Theall, Technology Strategist, Intel and President - HomeGrid Forum
February 02, 2009 4:02 PM in Alan Weinkrantz , EveryWire , EveryWire.com , G.hn , HomeGrid Forum , Matt Theall , P1901 , Wired Home Networking | 0 comments | 0 TrackBack
Here is part I in a series of 3 discussions with Matt Theal, Technology Strategist, Intel and President of HomeGrid Forum.
Everywire is a blog that will talk about G.hn and related wired networking news.
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