Digital Technology for Digital Living.
December 21, 2004
Broadband Over Power Lines Trial In Newcastle.
Broadband Over Powerlines (BPL) moves a step closer to reality in Australia with what sounds like a successful trial in Newcastle by Energy Australia. Chalk this up with the Aurora Energy trial we mentioned last month.
However, telco industry analyst Paul Budde, CEO of Budde.com, was optimistic. Budde had been invited by the utility to see the Newcastle trial.
He said several large apartment/commercial buildings in a city block in Newcastle East had been BPL-enabled with the 200Mbps equipment, with ISP services provided by Ipera.
In a research note on the topic Budde said Ipera runs a fibre optic ring in Newcastle, while Energy Australia uses this network and “takes over with BPL where those fibre cables end in substations around the city”.
“The general plan is to drive fibre optic as deeply as possible into the network and use BPL as a ‘first mile’ technology to connect to the users. Once in the building any power point can be used to connect the BPL modem.”
More on the story at PC World.
Gadgetman | | Broadband
February 7th, 2006 at 10:04 am
If this improoves todays lazy speed as provided by Telstra …
This is the way to go.
It is difficult to trust the advise of today´s communications tecnicians, but the electrician is generally a trustworth professional and if there is a corroded connection point the electrician will fixe communications and power, one visit only.
Also the electrician is a registered professional but communications tecnicians are generally totally unknown and could be a serious security problem to the house holder.
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:38 am
I live in Stockton and too far from the exchange for broadband connection.
Any broadband would be welcome. How about a trial added on to test Stockton.
800 metres from our largest city outside the capitals and shocking service!
Regards, W. Johnson.