{"id":548071,"date":"2006-02-22T20:09:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T20:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548071-broadband-over-power-lines-gets-a-kick-start.html"},"modified":"2006-02-22T20:09:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T20:09:50","slug":"broadband-over-power-lines-gets-a-kick-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548071-broadband-over-power-lines-gets-a-kick-start.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband over Power Lines gets a kick-start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This specification will accelerate mass rollout of high-speed, low-cost, broadband access, voice and audiovisual services, as well as utility applications for control and management operations. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">After two years of development, a consortium of industry specialists from 35 organizations (including 10 universities) , and supported by the European Commission, developed the specification based on a marketing and functional requirement blueprint ratified by OPERA. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The specification, together with an &quot;OPERA Technology White Paper&quot; can be freely downloaded from the &quot;Project Outputs&quot; section of the OPERA web site (<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ist-opera.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.ist-opera.org\/<\/font> <\/a><font size=\"2\">). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=38186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font> <\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) received a major boost recently when the Open PLC European Research Alliance (OPERA) announced the approval of the first open global specification for Powerline Communications (PLC) access, also known as Broadband over Powerline (BPL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}