What is the HomePlug Powerline Alliance?
Thirteen industry-leading companies formed the HomePlug Powerline Alliance in March of 2000. Since most electronic devices already use power outlets to receive power, the goal of the Alliance was create a way that these same power outlets could be used to connect the devices to each other and to the Internet. The Alliance achieved this by evaluating technologies and creating a specification. The HomePlug 1.0 specification was released in June of 2001.
