Security Engineering Research Group

Broadband over Power Lines

I came across this technology a few years back. It seemed amazing then and it seems really good now. I think someone needs to consider this for our local community. In my opinion, Amin should take a look at it in detail and from a technical and feasibility perspective since he’s now in the position to talk to businesses and individuals who make the decisions to bring new technology into the country.

How Broadband Over Powerlines Works

With broadband over power lines, or BPL, you can plug your computer into any electrical outlet in your home and instantly have access to high-speed Internet. By combining the technological principles of radio, wireless networking, and modems, developers have created a way to send data over power lines and into homes at speeds between 500 kilobits and 3 megabits per second (equivalent to DSL and cable).

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By providing high-speed data transmission between all of the electrical plugs in a house, there is the potential to network all kinds of common appliances in a household. If your alarm clock, light switch and coffee maker could talk each other via a high-speed connection, mornings might look a lot different.

[from Howstuffworks.com]

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