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Contacts
Community Broadband Networks
Tracks news reports of various broadband trials and projects run by municipal utilities and other power companies. Multiple links to press articles about PLC, broadband and internet over fiber.
ElectroNet
ElectroNet is a Broadband over Power Line (BPL) provider based in Saudi Arabia, providing a range of services like Internet Access, Networking, Training and Consulting Services.
HD-PLC Alliance
The Alliance’s mission is to achieve a universal networking world by promoting HD-PLC, one of the PLC technologies. The HD-PLC Alliance endeavors to create a full-fledged universal network society with a focus on consumer electronics and business applications.
HomeGrid Forum
HomeGrid Forum is a global, non-profit trade group promoting the International Telecommunication Union's G.hn standardization efforts for next-generation home networking. HomeGrid promotes adoption of G.hn through technical and marketing efforts, addresses certification and interoperability of G.hn-compliant products, and cooperates with complementary industry alliances.
HomePlug Powerline Alliance
Industry consortium of in-home PLC-equipment manufacturers. The Alliance's mission is to enable and promote rapid availability, adoption and implementation of cost effective, interoperable and standards-based home powerline networks and products.
HomePNA Alliance
HomePNA technology, standardized as ITU G.hn, provides data rates up to 320 Mbps with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) and remote management and diagnostics capability enabling service providers to meet - and drive - the growing demand for new services such as IPTV and VoIP.
Hometown Connections
With real-time visibility into the electric distribution network as far down as the subscriber’s electric socket and anywhere in between, MainNet’s end-to-end broadband products offer public power utilities the information technology and digital communications required to implement a self-monitoring distribution network.
6Power Project:
The main goal of the 6Power project is to contribute to ensuring affordable broadband access and the deployment of IPv6 in Europe. In order to achieve this goal, the project will research the native support and deployment of IPv6, QoS and other advanced services over Power Line Communication networks.
PALAS - Powerline as an Alternative Local AcceSs project:
Power Line Communications, PLC, is a recent and rapidly evolving technology, aiming at the utilisation of the electricity power lines for the transmission of data. PLC technology opens up new opportunities for the mass provision of local, last- mile access at a reasonable cost. The PALAS project aims to develop and test a complete service and commercialisation package to potential players in the PLC market.
United Powerline Council (UPLC)
The United Power Line Council (UPLC) is an industry consortium of PLC system producers and utility industry customers (and potential customers). They are a child organization of the United Telecom Council. ARRL has established dialogue with UPLC and both the ARRL and UPLC hope that such dialogue will lead to a better understanding and common ground.
Universal Powerline Association
The UPA is an international not-for-profit trade association. The Purpose of the Association is to promote the Powerline Communication technologies and particularly the benefits brought by these technologies for all the relevant applications.
PLC forum
The PLC Forum is an industry consortium of PLC manufacturers.
Power Line Communications Association (PLCA)
Power Line Communications Association is an industry consortium of PLC system producers and utility industry customers.
PowerLine-PLC.info
German
Encyberpedia
Not BPL-specific, but there are links to many electric utilities and companies that sell products to those electric utilities.
(also includes manufacturers with an interest in PLC, as expressed by their membership in one or more PLC organizations)
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ARRL is the National Association for Amateur Radio in the United States. It is supported by membership dues, individual contributions and the sale of publications and advertising.
ARRLs contact on EMC matters is:
American Radio Relay League
Ed Hare, W1RFI
Laboratory Manager
225 Main St.
Newington, CT 06111
Web: http://www.arrl.org
Email: w1rfi@arrl.org
Telephone: 860-594-0318
Fax: 860-594-0259
For more information about ARRL, go to http://www.arrl.org/news/features/inside-your-league.html. For more information about the benefits of ARRL membership, go to http://www.arrl.org/join.html.
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