EE Times editor Margaret Quan reports that the 36-member HomePlug Alliance will release a specification for a a 14-Mbit/sec data rate power line based home networking standard by end of this year. Quan writes . . .

“An effort to establish a standard for power-line-based home networking will take a step forward this week when the HomePlug Alliance announces it will adapt technology from Intellon Corp. for its spec. But even as some industry watchers praised the progress toward a unified approach, a separate standards group said that its efforts have effectively been rebuffed.”

“The HomePlug Alliance chose orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technology from power line network specialist Intellon (Ocala, Fla.).”

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