Broadband Over Powerline | When’s It Coming?

When’s Broadband Over Powerline, or BPL coming? We get asked that question by many inquisitive and broadband hungry powerusers. Broadbandfocus.com recently read an interview with an expert in the field. Here’s what he had to say about this powerline technology.

‘“Utilities have been slow to grasp this,” says Chano Gomez, vice president of technology and strategic partnerships at DS2 (Design of Systems on Silicon), which supplies high-speed powerline chips to device makers such as NETGEAR. “They are waiting for the pioneers.”

Those pioneers smell a market. That’s because as service providers continue to invest in network upgrades that promise faster connections to the home, they are faced with the quagmire of how to distribute that fat pipe throughout the residence. “The problem providers have is they know how to bring broadband to the home, but they can’t distribute the signals inside,” says Gomez.’

How long it will take to solve that problem is anyone’s guess. In the world of technology, and especially in the field of Broadband Over Powerline the going is sometimes slow.