At this week's CES show in Las Vegas, powerline communications (PLC) networking advocates got a nice win as the IEEE announced that it has released the P1901 Draft Standard for powerline communications.
via CES 2010: IEEE releases powerline communications draft standard – FierceTelecom.
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February 2, 2010
Thank you for sharing this news, I will give a look to it immediately (I’m doing research on smart grid infrastructure at an European University).
I hope this standard is not intended for broadband plc (typically internet over power lines), but also for smart grid future operation, in which latency, delays, reliability, etc. are usually bigger issues than just bandwidth.
http://www.smartgridelectronics.com/2010/01/power-line-communication-when-data.html