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Broadband Industry & Economy - Power `Broadband via power lines soon' Our Bureau
Bangalore , Oct 7 ELECTRICITY lines might soon bring broadband into your premise. At the Intel Developer Forum, a two-day event held at Bangalore, Intel announced that trials were being held to test this concept in India. Power lines can be used to transfer data with "speeds up to 200 mega bits per second (MBPS) for audio/video and 85 MBPS for data," according to Mr Donald MacDonald, Vice-President of Intel Communication, who spoke on `Enabling the digital lifestyle'. Intel is part of the HomePlug Alliance, a US-based consortium of technology companies that has been working on this concept since 10 years. The alliance has developed an industry-standard specification for broadband-over-power line, which enables devices to be connected to each other and to the Internet within a home premise, using the electricity wiring. According to Intel, this concept can similarly be used to provide homes with a broadband connection using their existing power line. Previously, implementation difficulties such as excess of electric noise posed hurdles until now, but have now been solved, said Mr MacDonald.
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