Millinet has chosen Intellon’s INT5500 and INT6300 ICs to enable in-home distribution of KT’s MegaTV-branded IPTV services over phone lines in homes throughout South Korea. Intellon’s ICs are used in Millinet’s Mega Bridge MMB-100/200 adapters, supplied when customers subscribe to KT MegaTV services. These adapters supply the IPTV content over existing phone lines in the home, allowing customers to view content over TVs plugged into any convenient phone jack.

According to Millinet, homes in South Korea have a phone jack in nearly every room, making content delivery over existing phone lines especially convenient for customers. Millinet selected both the Intellon HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo (85 Mbps PHY-rate) and the Intellon HomePlug AV (200 Mbps PHY-rate) ICs for their solutions. Both solutions are easy to install, easy to use and robust. They deliver reliable, “entertainment-grade” standard and high definition television services to subscribing viewers.

DS2 presents fully interoperable 100Mbps, 200Mbps and 400Mbps Powerline Communications technology at CeBIT 2008, Hall 13, Stand C83. The standards-based company created and patented the baseline technology for the Universal Powerline Association Digital Home Standard for multi-media home networking and service provider applications. UPA´s Digital Home Standard is the best selling powerline communications technology for IPTV services selected by leading service providers including Belgacom, British Telecom, Neuf Cegetel, Portugal Telecom, Telefónica, Telecom Italia and Telia Sonera. Over four million 200Mbps UPA ICs have been sold. DS2 holds the largest market share of this expanding market for 200Mbps powerline communication products in the retail, service provider and smart grid markets. At CeBIT, DS2 will be demonstrating cross generation, fully interoperable solutions for networking in the Digital Home and will be introducing new powerline products and solutions for Smart Grid and embedded applications.

DS2 announces that it has developed technology that will allow next generation powerline products to operate at a peak data rate of 400Mbps. This milestone will enable the development of new HD-capable multimedia applications, such as multi-channel HD-IPTV delivery or multi-room PVR.

Demonstrations of the 400 Mbps powerline technology will be featured at the invitation only technology launch in New York City next month.

DS2 announced that its powerline chips have been selected for BT Vision to enable the self-installation option of its digital TV services. BT selected UPA powerline products because of their capacity to provide high quality service and full self-installation for BT Vision customers.

The DS2 solution includes a unique reference design for the development of powerline products that incorporates a female socket that saves the customer's power outlet for use with other devices. It provides a simple one-touch set-up for HDTV-speed home networks in seconds as well as an environmentally friendly standby mode for energy saving when not in use.

DIRECTV announces a wholesale distribution agreement that will enable DIRECTV to offer its customers CURRENT's innovative BPL (Broadband Over Powerline) high-speed Internet service and VoIP services at the end of 2007/beginning of 2008. DIRECTV customers will be able to access the Internet by plugging a BPL modem into virtually any outlet in their home. This easy-to-use symmetrical service can send data faster than the typical cable modem service in use today. The increased upload speed is particularly important as users rely on greater speeds to play interactive games or send significant volumes of digital content through the Internet.

Sumitomo Electric Industries has chosen Intellon’s HomePlug-based INT6000 IC to enable in-home distribution of KDDI’s IPTV services in Japan. Intellon’s ICs are used in Sumitomo’s G02P1 PLC adapters, which provide connectivity from the broadband access modem to the IPTV set-top-box using the existing electrical wiring in the customer’s home.

Based on the HomePlug AV global standard, Intellon’s powerline communications ICs allow KDDI subscribers to create an in-home network for their IPTV service. In addition, Sumitomo’s G02P1 PLC adapters include robust network security encryption (128-bit AES) and Quality of Service features as part of the INT6000 ICs that are mandatory for VOD and content distribution services.

Sumitomo Electric Industries has selected Intellon’s HomePlug-based INT6000 IC to enable in-home distribution of KDDI’s IPTV services in Japan. Intellon’s ICs are used in Sumitomo’s G02P1 PLC adapters, which provide connectivity from the broadband access modem to the IPTV set-top-box using the existing electrical wiring in the customer’s home.

Based on the HomePlug AV global standard, Intellon’s powerline communications ICs allow KDDI subscribers to easily create an in-home network for their IPTV service. In addition, Sumitomo’s G02P1 PLC adapters include robust network security encryption (128-bit AES) and Quality of Service features as part of the INT6000 ICs that are mandatory for VOD (Video on Demand) and content distribution services.

Actiontec Electronics released the MegaPlug AV 200 Mbps Ethernet Adapter Kit, a next-generation powerline networking solution based on the new HomePlug AV standard for distributing large entertainment and data files around the home without the expense of pulling Ethernet cable. Multiple MegaPlug AV adapters can be used to connect computers, set top boxes and other devices over existing home electrical wiring for high-speed transfer of conventional data files as well as HDTV or standard definition TV programs or movies, photo albums, music collections, and other rich media.

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance will showcase HomePlug AV and 1.0-compliant products from numerous international HomePlug member companies at CeBIT 2007 in Hannover, Germany, from March 15-21. The HomePlug booth (Hall 14, Stand H11) includes a variety of demonstrations by companies such as Arkados, Inc., D-Link Systems, devolo AG, GigaFast, Intellon Corporation, Linksys, MainNet Communications, SPiDCOM and Yitran. Read further for company specifics.

Intellon Corporation announced that 12 service providers in Europe and Asia are now using Intellon's HomePlug ICs for in-home IPTV distribution. Operators now deploying Intellon's ICs for IPTV include 1&1, Chung Hwa Telecom, Club Internet, France Telecom, Free, Hanaro Telecom, neuf cegetel, PCCW, Simmin, Tele2, Telecom Italia France and TPSA.

Before deploying Intellon's solution, operators were consistently reporting that 10%-30% of their customers were canceling the newly-ordered IPTV service when new Ethernet wiring was required for the installation.

Research and Markets has released the new report 2006 Global Broadband Powerlines - Moving into Home Management 3rd Edition. In the report, a key highlight is that there are over 170,000 BPL subscribers worldwide in 2006. Impressive or not? Also from the report, around 100 commercial BPL trials are currently taking place worldwide, with about a third of these under way in the United States, and the large majority originating in Europe. While I do expect the numbers to increase, I am interested to see how BPL fares against competing technologies such as HomePNA.

ZyXEL Communications Inc. added a HomePlug AV product line to their portfolio featuring the PLA-400, HomePlug AV PowerLine Ethernet adapter, and the PLA-402, HomePlug AV PowerLine and coaxial Ethernet adapter. Designed as a home network backbone solution, both adapters feature very high throughput at 200 Mbps, which is ideal for IPTV deployment, video and audio streaming, VoIP services, file sharing and Internet access throughout the home. ZyXEL is the first to offer PowerLine adapters that connect either through home electrical outlets or coaxial cable.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Broadband Powerline Networking Gets a Jolt from IPTV to their offering.

Powerline networking offers a solution with some advantages over coax and twisted-pair cabling for in-home deployment, especially in regions with little existing coax or phone line jacks, such as in EMEA, China, and many Asia-Pacific countries. At this time, we do not believe that there will be one clear technology winner in the networking interface race between coax, phone line, and powerline; however, our current analysis points toward powerline as winning on a worldwide scale.

Broadband powerline networking, a wired technology that does not require new cabling to be installed, is poised to emerge as a winner in the residential networking interface race on a worldwide basis, reports In-Stat. Powerline networking has advantages over coax and twisted-pair cabling for in-home deployment. This is especially true in regions with few existing coax or phone jacks, such as in EMEA, Asia, and Pacific Rim countries, the high-tech market research firm says.

The number of subscribers to Internet television worldwide is expected to increase twelve fold by 2010, bringing with it a host of new services for consumers, a market research firm said Thursday. The number of IPTV subscribers is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 92.1 percent to 63.1 million in 2010 from 2.4 million last year, iSuppli Corp. said. The number of subscribers is expected to reach 5.3 million this year.