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Motorola's Commercial Broadband Over Powerline Solution

2005-05-24 00:13 by

 

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Motorola today unveiled an offering that mates its Canopy wireless broadband offering with in-building delivery of broadband over powerlines (BPL) using the HomePlug standard.

Motorola’s offering, called Powerline LV (the LV stands for low voltage, to create a distinction between in-building BPL and the use of high-voltage electric distribution lines to carry broadband), requires only three pieces of gear to connect a user to broadband. The first is the new Powerline LV access point cluster, an integrated antenna and bridge router, and a HomePlug-compliant modem. Motorola argues that by delivering broadband over RF using its Canopy wireless system – which these days it describes as “WiMAX-like” – it avoids high frequency interference issues revolving around delivery of broadband over the power lines that feed to a home.

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