{"id":58,"date":"2008-10-23T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:03:41","slug":"the-end-of-bpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/the-end-of-bpl\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of BPL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>DSLReports<\/a><\/em> has an article<\/a> citing the death of Broadband Over Powerline<\/a> (BPL). Apparently, the first U.S. city to see a non-trial launch of BPL in Manassas, Virginia<\/a> is shutting down. Comtek<\/a>, the company that originally built the network, is giving up on the installation after a planned sale to Smart Grid LLC fell through and the city has taken control of the network.<\/p>\n

\"TheBPL has had difficulty gaining traction for several reasons. First, its relatively slow throughput in the face of next-generation speeds and its potential for interference with amateur and emergency radio. Finally, many utilities simply didn’t want to be broadband providers.<\/p>\n

Last May, a BPL trial operated by DirecTV<\/a> and Current Communications in Dallas, Texas<\/a>\u00a0which had hoped to offer BPL service to 2 million residents was sold to the local utility.<\/p>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manassas, Virginia BPL installation has been taken over by local govt marking the end of broadband over powerline in the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2196,20,13,78,2783,2781,2158,172,46,2782],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband","tag-2196","tag-bpl","tag-broadband","tag-broadband-over-powerline","tag-comtek","tag-directv","tag-fail","tag-manassas","tag-smart-grid","tag-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t