Digital Technology for Digital Living.
November 26, 2004
Broadband Over Power Lines Close For Aussies.
Gadget Lounge has been waiting for this type of product for a few years now, and hopefully with the first trial over the option isn’t too far away. Whirlpool mentions Aurora Energy and their trial to do broadband over electricity lines, achieving speeds of between 10 and 30Mbps. This type of service will add pressure to Telstra to improve their performance and price, given a recent article seemed to suggest they’d be holding out for fiber to the premises to provide true high speed. Rather than a whole new infrastructure roll out we can rely on our power companies existing lines.
“To access the broadband a PLC modem can be plugged into any power point in the home to receive the broadband signal.”
Gadgetman | | Broadband
December 21st, 2004 at 2:28 am
[…] at sounds like a successful trial in Newcastle by Energy Australia. Chalk this up with the Aurora Energy trial we mentioned last month. Howe […]
July 26th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
All potential users of this technology should understand the nature of the beast before committing their support.
Should it proceed, this technology may well see the end of many radio services that use spectrum between 2 and 30MHz. That is because current versions of this technology pollute the radio spectrum, and creates so much interference that almost all cuurent users will not be able to operate. Future developments may change this problem, but current trials have proven beyond any doubt that current technology behaves this way.
Potential Operators (for example power utilities) seem to be ignoring this problem. What they should also consider is that current (legitimate) HF spectrum users will interfer with BPL making data transfer sporadic and painfully intermittent for the end user.
This is definately a case of the wrong technology for the application. Power utilities, please think hard about what you are attempting to do here. The ACMA needs to have a good look at this as allow santity to prevail. There is more at stake than competition and dollars.