G.hn Becomes Reality

Monday, 11 July 2011 08:32

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The wired home networking industry has taken a step forward after four G.hn chipset manufacturers met in Geneva for the world’s first open G.hn Interoperability Plugfest.  Put on by the HomeGrid Forum and the Broadband Forum, the event was hosted at the International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication (ITU-T) global headquarters and organized by University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL).

The event presented the first open opportunity for silicon vendors to test the interoperability of their products, based on the G.hn home networking standard. Lantiq, Marvell Semiconductor, Metanoia, and Sigma Designs participated in the interoperability event with their G.hn silicon test platforms.

Matt Theall, President of HomeGrid Forum, notes, “G.hn is here. It’s now. Service providers are excited we have concluded this event and we are thrilled to report the successful completion of the testing. G.hn is already a reality with silicon now ready for deployment.”

Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh, says his company “is very happy that the first G.hn Interoperability Plugfest has been completed successfully. We look forward to the next steps in completing the test plans required to enable interoperability of G.hn products,”

HomeGrid Forum reports it is rolling out its Compliance and Interoperability certification program in 2011, “allowing HomeGrid Forum certified products to be brought to the market this year and establishing a new industry benchmark of technology excellence for wired home networking.”

A series of additional G.hn plugfests is being scheduled for this year.

HomeGrid Forum is a global, non-profit trade group promoting the International Telecommunication Union’s G.hn and G.hnem standardization efforts for next-generation home networking and SmartGrid Applications. For more information, visit www.homegridforum.org.

Broadband Forum, a non-profit industry organization focused on engineering smarter and faster broadband connections. Our free technical reports and white papers can be found at www.broadband-forum.org.