HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance merged under...
HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance merged under the HomeGrid Forum banner to “create a single organization focused on promoting advanced wired home networking technologies,” the merged group said Tuesday. The combined organization will “promote the smooth transition of all…
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current generation” wireline home networking technologies to G.hn, the “any wire” technology defined by ITU-T open international standards, it said. The merger “creates a larger, stronger organization” that is “committed to support the tens of millions” of HomePNA devices already deployed globally, with a “defined migration path” to G.hn, it said. The merger comes just as G.hn-based products are starting to ship, and creates an organization that will “guide those planning new networks based on G.hn as well as migrating from earlier network technologies” to G.hn, it said. But “there will also be continued support for the installed base” of more than 40 million certified HomePNA devices, “protecting the investment” of HomePNA equipment makers and their customers, it said. “The obvious future direction for all wireline home networking is to migrate” to G.hn, so “it made sense for us to merge” the groups now, HomePNA President Eran Gureshnik said in a news release. The merged HomeGrid Forum has more than 70 members, including 28 service providers and some of the largest original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers and retailers globally, it said. The merger is a “great step towards advancing and harmonizing these standards-based home networking technologies,” said Eric Puetz, director-industry standards at HomeGrid Forum member AT&T. Other members include Best Buy, Cisco and Intel.