BROADBAND DISTRIBUTION OVER POWER LINE

Broadband and the Internet are a part of human in day to day activity and its quickly becoming invisible and everywhere that no one is think or considering its effects any more than electricity is at this current age or how national social and economic development hinged on it. Even there is low volume or little access for rural areas, there is a significant increase in internet users within the urban areas; the requirement for easy, fast and cost effective distribution is increasing. Many services providers have been rolling out fiber optic cables to homes, primary focusing of these service providers will be on high-density, urban areas. Other varieties of technologies employed by Broadband/Internet Service Providers (BISPs) to expand services to the patrons are Direct Subscriber Line (DSL), Hybrid Fiber-cable (HFC), radio networked fixed wireless communications and satellites antennas.

The technology is based on the fact and ideal transmission of electricity at a lower frequency than broadband signals; therefore both electricity and broadband data can be channeled on the same power cable network with no either interference with each other. This offers a thought of economical way of distributing broadband over existing electric power infrastructure into competitive price with other forms of broadband distribution. There is also letting consumer plug low cost modems into any ordinary power outlet and linked to the internet real time.

The current Power lines infrastructure makes it a medium for broadband delivery for the reason that its extensive network reaches more homes than coaxial cables as well as DSL. This will further promote rapid expansion to access to the internet particularly rural areas.

This technique of distributing internet have been tested and deployed for home electronic networking and power modems are commercially manufactured by electronics vendors such as DLink modems, Linksys modems, Net gear routers, and Phone-flever modems. These devices can only support network data transfer which extends just a few hundred feet while current research is on-going on how to make it commercially available over a longer distance.

 

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