Is 200 Mbs and 600 Mbs BPL for real?
200 Mbs BPL is in development by DS2. I’m unaware of any 200 Mbs commercial systems in the US carrying customer traffic. One has to ask how this can be viable. 200 Mbs of BPL bandwidth with an 8 bits/hertz efficiency rate would require 25 Mhz of spectrum free and clear. Current BPL systems using 3 or 4 Mhz channels have had interference compliants lodged. Finding 25 Mhz in the real world is difficult. 600 Mbs BPL has been reported, but this appears to be 200 Mbs BPL operating on three wires of a three phase powerline (3 wires x 200Mbs = 600 Mbs). 600 Mbs is not the raw medium bandwidth.
