SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Driving the worldwide acceptance of high-speed networking over power lines, the HomePlug® Powerline Alliance today announced that they have been selected by the DSL Forum as the Power Line Technology (PLT) of choice to interface to TR-069 compliant residential gateways. By defining HomePlug as the standard powerline technology interface on a Residential Gateway (RG), as well as for adapters residing on the home network behind the RG, HomePlug technology has become the defacto standard solution for service providers to manage in-home gateways and services.

TR-069 standards-based solutions are designed to centralize the management, control, monitoring, and delivery of services, as well as simplify device configuration, remote management and service activation. TR-069 compliance is of critical importance to service providers because of the high cost of provisioning and supporting triple play services. The needs of today's digital home experience require that carriers not only deliver their triple play services, but provide IT support for their customers. Without the ability to remotely manage and provision the consumer premises equipment (CPE), costly truck rolls or major call center efforts are the alternative.

"Though the DSL Forum work is LAN access agnostic, we reference HomePlug technology in Technical Reports 069 and 124 (TR-069, TR-124) as the powerline technology of choice for in-home networking implementations for TR-069 compliancy. This was driven by the strong standards-based approach that HomePlug supports today," said George Dobrowski, chairman and president of DSL Forum Board of Directors and director of technology and product planning at Conexant. "We are looking forward to the ease with which carriers will now be able to provision and manage their consumers' in-home networks and services."

"We are pleased that the DSL Forum has selected HomePlug technology as the mechanism by which Operators will implement TR-069 compliancy for their premises equipment," said Jed Johnson, chair of the HomePlug Policy Workgroup and senior director of system engineering at Motorola. "This decision reinforces, once again, the strength of the HomePlug standard in a global operator market."

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