HomeGrid Aims at Telcos & Powerline Markets

From The Online Reporter   

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After a quiet period, the coming HomeGrid (G.hn) home networking standard is emerging from its development period to one of testing and ultimately to deployment, according to John Egan, manager of strategic marketing and standards at Marvell, which plans to make 

HomeGrid chips and to HomeGrid Forum president and Intel employee Matthew Theall.

  

HomeGrid’s Time Line  

Both reported positively about the HomeGrid Forum hosted event HomeGrid plugfest that Telefónica sponsored in Brazil in Q4 2011. Participating were four potential HomeGrid chipmakers: Marvell, Lantiq, Sigma Designs and Taiwan-based Metanoia Communications. Metanoia is a good fit because it makes chips that are used in equipment for telcos, mostly in Asia, such as VDSL2, GPON and ADSL2+ chips. Chipmakers Xingtera, Kawasaki and TangoTec are members of the HomeGrid Forum but have not yet publicly announced chips and did not participate in the Plug Fest. Xingtera’s focuses on home networking and smart grid markets.  

Telefónica brought companies that are part of its supply chain to get educated on the benefits of G.hn. It’s noteworthy that Telefónica, the world’s third largest telco, has invested in and made...

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