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Reporting major progress from the BPL industry

Reporting major progress from the BPL industry. Sam Spencer Editor, BPL Today Presented to EduCause May 16, Crystal City, Va.

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Reporting major progress from the BPL industry

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  1. Reporting major progress from the BPL industry Sam Spencer Editor, BPL Today Presented to EduCause May 16, Crystal City, Va

  2. BPL Today is:•A weekly trade newsletter published electronically in Washington, DC and delivered worldwide• The only professional news publication dedicated solely to the global BPL industry• Focused on the three end-user segments of the BPL industry: utility broadband access, MDU/MTU and in-home networking • Subscribers are BPL silicon and hardware makers, electric utility industry, integrators and operators and many with an interest in the future of the technology

  3. BPL is:• A technology that uses existing power lines to transmit high-speed internet data• Used worldwide to network broadband in utility power grids, MDU/MTU buildings and in homes• Tested, fast (200 mbps), more secure than wireless, more robust than wireless

  4. Utility Access:• Used by a growing number of power utilities in the US and on every continent to deliver broadband access to customers• Utilities use as network for “smart grid” for reliability, energy efficiency and energy management = environmental benefits• Committed deployments for broadband: TXU (Oncor), Consumers Energy, Duquesne Light, at least 4 or more munis and 16 co-ops• Serious commitments to use or trial smart grid-only BPL: CenterPoint Energy, NYSEG/Rochester Gas & Electric • Serious 200 mbps trials: ConEd, Duke Energy (& Cinergy), FirstEnergy, Entergy, NationalGrid, plus Austin Municipal• Utilities on every continent using for broadband and smart grid

  5. In Home:• Millions of devices deployed worldwide• Telecom giants – especially in Europe -- using to network IPTV through homes• Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, RadioShack and dozens more on record saying BPL is only secure robust in-home network technology for IPTV• Netgear, D-Link, Linksys, Devolo and many more are in BPL market competing now – go check your BestBuy

  6. MDU/MTU:• A US government agency associated with Dept of Defense began installing this week to ultimately connect 30 offices • Hundreds of hotels switching to BPL• US Navy approved for all Marine and Navy networks of 90 or fewer computers, US Fed Gov approval is soon• Landlords/network installers swear BPL is easiest, most affordable and fastest-to-deploy network

  7. Who’s doing MDU BPL?• Telkonet supplies Trump, Navy, QEII, 200 UK Best Western motels, many more• First Communications/Ameren in Chicago• EarthLink doing trial in DC• Motorola switched focus from access BPL to MDU• River City Internet deploying in St Louis• CinemaWorks/3One serving 40+ hotels• PLC Network Solutions at various hotels worldwide• ANew Broadband in Miami, Latin America• CiberSuite in Spain and UK• Elektrolinks in Canada• Spain’s N2S did historic “tall ship”• Many more throughout Asia (21 mil China) & globally

  8. Why?• It’s literally plug-n-play• It’s very high security since each device is provisioned and approved by the system• It’s robust, completely filling one or more floors per single insertion• Ubiquitous – avg. 1 outlet every 6’ in new US bldgs.• Supports WiFi and extends fiber/DSL/cable/WiMax• Has QoS for VOIP and IPTV including HDTV• Supports growing list of building applications: HVAC monitoring/ctrl, energy management, digital signage, customer information and automation portals, lighting control, video surveillance, door entry control, etc.

  9. “This can save service providers and their customers time and money by leveraging existing assets.”Thomas Hulsebosch, MotorolaOn Motorola’s Powerline MU BPL productBPL Today, Sept 12, 2006

  10. “We’ve used every type of network available.  We saw BPL as our holy grail.”William Massey, CEO, hotel networking firm CinemaWorksBPL Today, Jan 9, 2007

  11. “It just works.  My guys in the [tech support] cue love it because they don’t get any calls on this.”Trey Goede, Vice President, River City InternetBPL Today, April 10, 2007

  12. “Building owners, managers and residents will be able to access energy information from any electrical outlet or even from a remote location.” Frank Matarazzo, Founder, MSTPreferred networking vendor of the Trump Organization and many New York City developersBPL Today, May 16, 2006

  13. BPL installs without any construction, a big plus in the sterile hospital environment.  BPL-based video, voice and data “represent to the hospital a manageable revenue center.”Tim Campbell, Senior Vice President, Cenit and COO, Blue PortBPL Today, October 31, 2006

  14. January 1, 2006 Recent BPL News 2007 Consumers Energy/Utility.net: 1 million Michigan homes may be passed Intel to add HomePlug AV BPL option to PCs in 2008 Corinex/MuNet doing utility BPL power meters Trimax to buy digital signage firm Cybersonics BestBuy uses Corinex BPL in in $15,000 smart home bundle Thailand utility to pass 15 million homes with BPL ConEd OKs Ambient underground R&D Arkansas BPL law signed by governor (Texas, California, New York and FCC already adopted clear policies promoting BPL) DS2 BPL chips work well with latest game consoles MainNet deploys BPL for Swiss utility First Communications teams with BPL Global for 'smart grid' Swedish ISP picks Ilevo BPL gear Nextream has 29 deals to serve BPL at Philippines co-ops Telkonet teams with GE for 'intelligent' substations

  15. January 1, 2006 News of BPL’s advances around the globe • New Australian telecom firm plans utility BPL • Nigeria to get BPL, ‘smart grid’ • Venezuela to get Chinese BPL • PLCNet reveals Middle East pacts • 2005 • Power Plus to bring BPL to rural Germany • Malaysian firm using SpidCom BPL chips • Philippines to get BPL triple play • Country Energy (Australia) taking BPL commercial • India is working on BPL rules • Telkonet enters Mexican, Turkish markets • Austrian government OKs Linz BPL • OPERA releases (DS2-based) standard for all to use 2006 BPL set to serve 21 million in China Eighty-six Paris suburbs to get BPL DS2 opens offices in Silicon Valley, Japan Schneider Electric does BPL in India MainNet’s got new AMR, Italy’s ASM is buying Amperion opens shop in Greece, Balkans; First Greek BPL pilot now installed US firm begins grand Philippines plan South African firm ramps up BPL plans Energy Australia to test AMR via BPL South Africa, Uganda getting DS2-based BPL South African BPL gets press Danish integrator using Telkonet gear ANew ‘lights up’ Managua shopping center Xeline doing ‘smart grid’ with Korean Electric

  16. January 1, 2006 We answer your questions.We want to hear them.If we can’t answer them, we want to know who can. Sam Spencer800-486-8201202-298-8201www.bpltoday.com

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