More Than 40 Products Pass HomePlug(R) Powerline Alliance AV Certification.- "Plugfest" Allows Compliance and Interoperability Certification of Products Providing Flawless Consumer Experience - SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The HomePlug AV certification program consists of two components - compliance testing and interoperability testing. Two products passed the compliance testing, which verifies that silicon solutions from vendors are implemented to comply with the HomePlug AV specification. More than 40 products passed the interoperability testing, which ensures that products based on compliant silicon solutions interoperate with each other and are capable of meeting a set of performance metrics as defined by the Alliance's Compliance & Interoperability Workgroup. "Bolstered by the large number of products submitted for testing and the overall quality of products, the HomePlug Alliance is thrilled with this extremely strong starting point for the HomePlug AV certification logo program," said Craig Cedros from Intel Corporation, who serves as the chair of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance HomePlug is an industry trade group for power line communication. This organization of about 50 companies defines power line communication specifications. HomePlug 1.0 and AV are the two versions of the specification for home networking technology that connects devices to each Compliance & Interoperability Work Group. "We are very confident that all products that passed the HomePlug AV certification will provide great ease-of-use and seamless compatibility for consumers worldwide." Products from HomePlug member companies Actiontec, Asoka, Aztech, Cameo, Devolo, Fujitsu-Siemens, GigaFast, Intellon, Leacom, Linksys, Sharp, Solwise, Sumitomo and ZyXEL passed the AV certification requirements. Several additional products also passed the test requirements, but those vendors have not yet announced their availability. A number of ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) A contract manufacturer that uses its own designs and intellectual property (IP). See contract manufacturer. products were represented by a HomePlug member company that also successfully completed testing. Among the products passing certification testing at July's "Plugfest" are: * Actiontec - MEGAPLUG AV 200 Mbps Ethernet Adapter * Asoka - PlugLinkAV 9660 Ethernet Adapter, PlugLinkAV 9662 Coax Hybrid * Aztech - HL109E * Cameo - 6300ETH eth n. Variant of edh. * Devolo - dLAN 200 AVpro, dLAN 200 AVdesk, dLAN 200 AVpro i, dLAN 200 AV; dLAN 200 AVeasy * Fujitsu-Siemens - PowerLAN IH200 * Gigafast - PE-924-EB; PE-928-EB; PE-927-EB; PE-926-PLA; PE-926-SW * Intellon - INT6000 Reference Design; INT6300 Reference Design; AN-1; AN-2; SER-1 * Leacom - LEA Netplug AV 200Mbps * Linksys - PLE PLE protein losing enteropathy. 200 * Sharp - HN-VA10; HN-VA10A; HN-VA40; HN-VA40A * Solwise - NET-PL-200AV * Sumitomo - MH2170 * ZyXEL - PLA-470; PLA-450; NBG-318S; 45-401-000705; PLA-401; PLA-402; PLA-400; P-660HWP-D1 Not all products that passed certification are included in the above list, and the additional products will be listed on the HomePlug Web site at a later date. The HomePlug AV compliance and interoperability test events are held at an independent test facility using common test code, standardized platforms, test specifications and a variety of system profiles. To help manufacturers and consumers easily identify HomePlug AV products, products that have passed certification can be identified by customers and consumers by the 'HomePlug AV Certified' logo. For more information on HomePlug's AV certification testing, including frequently asked questions on our certification process, information on scheduling certification testing, and a list of HomePlug-certified products, please visit www.homeplug.org. About the HomePlug[R] Powerline Alliance: The HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. is an industry-led initiative established to create specifications for home high-speed powerline networking products and command & control among platforms within the home, and broadband access services to the home. The Alliance accelerates demand for HomePlug enabled products and services worldwide through the sponsorship of market and user education programs. Membership in the Alliance has grown to include more than 75 industry-leading companies. HomePlug Sponsor companies include Cisco (CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ); Comcast (CMCSK); GE Security, Inc., an affiliate of General Electric Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GE); Intel Corporation; LG Electronics (Korea Stock Exchange Korea Stock Exchange The major securities market of Korea. : 6657.KS); Motorola (MOT); RadioShack Corporation (RSH (Remote SHell) A Unix command that enables a user to remotely log into a server on the network and pass commands to it. It is similar to the rlogin command, but provides passing of command line arguments to the command interpreter on the server at the same time. ); Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SSNGY.PK); Sharp Laboratories of America; TCL See Tcl/Tk. Tcl - Tool Command Language Group Holding Co., Ltd (TCL Group); and Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN TXN Texas Instruments (stock symbol) TXN Transaction (databases) TXN Tunxi, China (Airport Code) TXN Tarxien (postal locality, Malta) ) (TI). Contributor members include Arkados (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : AKDS); Conexant (CNXT); Corporate Systems Engineering; Gigle Semiconductor; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Intellon Corporation; and SPiDCOM Technologies. Additional information about the Alliance, including a complete listing of certified products, is available at http://www.homeplug.org. HomePlug is a registered trademark of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. All other trademarks, trade names and service marks mentioned and/or used belong to their respective owners. |
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