IEEE P1901 Draft Addresses Broadband over Power Lines
May 29, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS
The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) P1901 Working Group completed a draft version of IEEE P1901 - Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications.
The working group's technical subgroups presented unified texts for the first four chapters of the draft standard, which were approved, according to IEEE.
In addition, a refined table of contents was presented detailing how to merge several confirmed proposals. The table of contents was also approved.
When finished, the project will present a standard for high speed (greater than 100 Mbps at the physical layer) communication devices via alternating current (AC) electric power lines, so-called broadband over power line (BPL) devices, said IEEE experts. The standard will use transmission frequencies below 100 MHz.
This standard will be usable by all classes of BPL devices including BPL devices used for the first-mile/last-mile connection (less than 1500m to the premise) to broadband services, as well as BPL devices used in buildings for local area networks (LAN) and other data distribution (less than 100m between devices), according to IEEE.
The draft standard will be developed over the next several months.
Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA).