Broadband Powerline Communications News
March 2005

Machine-to-Machine communication will drive growth as devices enabled with sensors and intelligence relay critical information across the Internet

March 22, 2005 - Salt Lake City,UT - Phonex Broadband™, a leading volume provider of voice and data communications over powerline, is poised to leverage the ramping M2M (machine to machine) market. Remote machines will use sensors and intelligence to create and relay critical information across the Internet for use by service organizations and industrial applications. Phonex can connect these devices using ReadyWire, a family of embedded powerline communications chips that boasts reliable data delivery within a building and the ability to bridge to broadband, wireless and phone systems using innovative gateways.

The Powerline World website has today been bought by IQPC, a long established conference organiser.

10th March 2005 - Hanover, Germany - At a meeting of its Board of Directors held in Hanover during CeBIT, the UPA decided to endorse the OPERA specification and to launch a digital home industry standardization process.

Sunnyvale, CA - March 1, 2005 - Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces a two-chip, powerline networking solution comprised of the MAX2986, a highly integrated PHY/MAC digital transceiver, and the MAX2980 an analog front-end.