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Broadband Over Power Lines Debuts in D.C. Suburb
MANASSAS, Va. -- Just one year after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved rules for the deployment of broadband over power lines (BPL), the technology made its commercial debut in this Washington suburb.
"We have accomplished something here that will be a model for other cities and towns across the United States," a beaming Manassas Mayor Douglas Waldron proclaimed.
In a public-private partnership with Communications Technologies (ComTek) that Waldron said cost his taxpayers "not a penny," the city is now offering a $30-per-month broadband service through its electrical grid. Both Comcast and Verizon already offer broadband in Manassas.
With speeds that rival DSL and cable modems, the service is available to all 12,500 households and 2,500 businesses in Manassas. With the city receiving a share of every subscription to the service, Waldron said Manassas currently has 700 paying customers with another 500 signed up.
Houston Electric's program will involve 44,500 electric customers, 22,500 of whom are also natural gas customers of CenterPoint. CenterPoint will decide whether to expand the program after this year's program.
TXU Corp. and Current Communications Group will offer high-speed Internet access over power lines to about 2 million homes and businesses, as well as the utility applications CenterPoint and IBM are rolling out.
The CenterPoint-IBM program centers on three core applications (meter reading, connections, outage management), and there are at least a half dozen more including equipment trouble-shooting on main power lines to substations and to individual homes, Blair said.
In Houston, meters will have a transmitter that will send information to receivers on utility poles hooked into the BPL network. Meters can be remotely read on demand.
Cente rPoint, IBM roll out smart grid in Houston