[Premium-Rx] BPLReport Predicts Rapid Growth For BPL-Access

[George Georgevits]

Hi to all,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but take a look at www.ds2.es . DS2 is
a Spanish company which claims to have developed a chipset that will deliver
200MBPS to the home via BPL. This leaves other present day broadband
technologies for dead! Given that DS2 is way ahead of the present day
competition, and is delivered via an existing power line infrastructure, it
has the potential to give the power companies a foothold in a very
competitive market.

Also, just for the record, BPL does not have to use outside power lines. In
one realisation of BPL,  the broadband signal is injected where the power
enters a high-rise building. Thus the entire building is BPL enabled. This
can be cost effective for large buildings, and it doesn't involve high
voltage (ie. many KV) fittings. It will still radiate, although probably
less that the open air form of this ill-considered technology.

Don't get me wrong - I hate the idea of this technology. But it is a little
more involved than some have indicated so far on this thread, I am just
filling in a few obvious holes. And it is by no means certain, in my view,
that its future is bleak and limited, despite its obvious drawbacks.

Regards,
George Georgevits
VK2KGG


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org]On Behalf Of Bill Levy
Sent: Monday, 27 June 2005 2:49 AM
To: Robert Nickels
Cc: Premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] BPLReport Predicts Rapid Growth For BPL-Access


Gents,

As Mac said DELETE is an option!

The other thing to consider is that at the current moment in time we find
ourselves watchin the battle between cable and dsl accelerating. The phone
co's want to deliver movies, internet and the cable companies want to
deliver telephone, internet and movies. BPL is only talking about internet
w/out movies or phone service.

The last mile, the most expensive part of providing service be it phone, tv
or net, is finally falling under the sword. There are now more Americans on
broadband than dialup.

In the remote location where I live in the summer, coal cattle and cowboy
country in NW Colorado the local electric cooperative is looking toward
turning microwave TV repeaters into WIMAX repeaters to serve a small valley
community. WIMAX is a big, cheaper, wideband alternative to BPL and I think
as it becomes more widely adapted ( It has Intel among other small boys
pushing hard) we shall see that it is also more economical for installs. BPL
is very hardware intensive. One has to bypass every pole transformer and
isolate 14K volts from the net feed. Perhaps thats something, 14KV I would
like on my Plate Supply but not in my computer.

73, Bill N2WL




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