How will HomePlug AV support both In-home and BPL uses on the same wire?
HomePlug AV will support TDMA and FDMA for the purposes of BPL co-existence. HomePlug AV will have a mechanism to detect the existence of “neighbor networks,” which include BPL users. This mechanism is required so that in-home-only HomePlug AV users in homes and apartments that are sharing the same physical wire (off of a common transformer) do not interfere with each other – independent of whether BPL exists on the line or not. In other words, the need for bandwidth sharing exists inherently within HomePlug AV itself, and the bandwidth management solutions needed for In-home HomePlug AV applications can easily be extended to BPL. With that said, the HomePlug Alliance recognizes that the market requirements of BPL may differ from those of HomePlug AV. Therefore, policies will need to be established on how best to share available resources between HomePlug AV and BPL. To a large degree, specific deployment scenarios, service architectures and possibly government regulations will drive t
