Haven't they heard that the new political term is "climate change" to conveniently encompass **both** heating and cooling trends? Even me and my big, comfy carbon footprint knows that. Incidentally, I'm attending IEEE's IMS (International Microwave Symposium, www.ims2008.org) conference in Atlanta this June where, amongst all of the microwave and milimeterwave presentations, there will be a BPL presentation (Investigation of Fields and Currents for Broadband over Power Line (BPL) Communications by A. Lau, D. R. Jackson, J. T. Williams, F. Mesa, J. Bernal of University of Houston, Houston, United States, and University of Seville, Seville, Spain)...not sure why it's relevant to a microwave engineering conference, or what earth-shattering info is going to be given, but I'll relay some of the details if anything interesting is shared. 73, Brian N5ZGT ARRL Director, Rocky Mountain Division

-----Original Message----- From: Rod Stafford W6ROD [mailto:w6rod@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:05 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:16700] Fwd: USA - Broadband Market - Broadband over Power Line (BPL)

I assume everyone got a copy of this garbage. Rod W6ROD

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I enclose details of our latest Broadband Power Line Report.

Broadband over Powerline (BPL), or Powerline Communication (PLC), potentially enables electric utilities to become triple play communications providers with minimal infrastructure investment.

With support from the US government and the FCC, ongoing resolution of technology problems, the development of global standards, major equipment suppliers entering the market, and over 100 trials around the country some of which are becoming commercial, BPL is poised to become a major new entrant to the US telecommunications market.

In particular, BPL is likely to play a role in areas underserved by DSL and cable. However, the case for BPL is being driven not only by the increasing demand for triple play services, but also by energy efficiency requirements.

Global warming is placing increasing pressure on utilities to increase energy efficiency, thereby driving development of 'smart meter' and 'smart grid' technology which would utilise BPL networks.

Nevertheless, a number of technological hurdles face the BPL industry and global standards need to be finalised before large scale deployments will eventuate.

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Title Index:

1. Synopsis

2. Overview

3. BPL opportunities 3.1 Broadband and triple play 3.2 Smart meters and smart grids

4. BPL deployment issues and obstacles

5. BPL technology

6. BPL regulations

7. BPL deployments and trials 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Commercial deployments 7.3 BPL trials 7.4 Forecasting BPL

8. BPL industry participants 8.1 BPL standard setting bodies 8.1.1 HomePlug Powerline Alliance 8.1.2 United Power Line Council (UPLC) 8.1.3 IEEE Standards Association 8.2 Integrated BPL solutions 8.2.1 BPL Global 8.2.2 Current Communications 8.2.3 Gridline Communications 8.2.4 International Broadband Electric Communications Inc (IBEC) 8.2.5 Utility.net 8.3 BPL IC chip makers 8.3.1 DS2 8.3.2 Intellon 8.4 BPL equipment suppliers 8.4.1 Amperion 8.4.2 Ambient Corporation 8.4.3 Corinex 8.4.4 Corridor Systems 8.4.5 Elcom's Coppertalk 8.4.6 Main.net Power Line Communications 8.4.7 PowerWAN Inc 8.5 Gridwise

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Exhibit 1 - BPL technology overview

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