By The GiGAWire Alliance and the Home Grid Forum are merging – to create a new force in broadband access
technology development and an organisation that will be structured to work
across a widening portfolio covering IoT, Connected Cars, Smart Grid, Light
Communications (Li-Fi) and GiGAWire MDU.
The two alliances are exhibiting at this week’s Broadband
World Forum with a joint booth (G30).
“Both organizations have a lot in common and a strong
focus on enabling service providers’ deployments with advanced solutions and
ensuring a robust and versatile backbone, based on ITU-T G.hn technology –
designed to work on any wire, designed to fit any network topology” said
Marketing Chair Livia Rosu.
“From the HomeGrid Forum side we will provide continued
support to GiGAWire members on system certification through strict compliance
and interoperability testing for service providers’ smoother and faster
deployment. As G.hn technology is at the core of systems for in-home and
broadband access deployments (in MDUs and last mile network segments), the new
organization automatically ensures end-to-end coexistence and interoperability
at all levels,” she added.
The new organization will be structured to provide marketing and technical
support to each of the market segments: Home Networking, IoT, Connected Cars,
Smart Grid, Light Communications (Li-Fi) and GiGAWire MDU.
The GiGAWire Alliance was created in 2017 as a unified industry effort by
service providers, equipment vendors and silicon vendors to create an ecosystem
that ensured continuous improvement of broadband access network solutions based
on ITU-T G.hn standards.
Its work has been dedicated to enabling next-generation access networks that
deliver faster-than-gigabit broadband services, with a focus on helping service
providers to leverage existing in-building copper infrastructure (phone lines,
UTP cables and coaxial cables) to deploy broadband networks at a fraction of
the cost of traditional FTTH deployments.
GiGAWire extended applicability of G.hn to provide broadband access to the
premises environment, including large apartment complexes, single family
units and office buildings. It provided crosstalk mitigation and auto pairing
features to support multiple users using bundle cable.
“The GiGAWire solution can easily improve Internet connection speed up to 10
times over VDSL in the premises environment where optical fiber cannot be
deployed for technical or historical preservation reasons.
Adding GiGAWire’s experience and access deployment knowledge to the
work of the HomeGrid Forum will give the combined organization massive
potential as the industry moves forward,” said Rosu.
HomeGrid Forum and GiGAWire Alliance members are displaying their products for
a full range of network topologies at Broadband World Forum booth G30 in
Amsterdam on October 15 -17.
GiGAWire Alliance Board member and HomeGrid Forum Promoter member Korea Telecom
(KT) is also attending the Broadband World Forum, where they have been invited
to speak about the world-leading position they have established in broadband
provision for both homes and businesses.
JP Lee, Vice President of the KT Infra R&D Lab, said: “GiGAWire Alliance
and HomeGrid Forum have been working closely together for some time now and
this merger will allow further exciting developments to be made, as well as
exploiting new areas such as Li-Fi, Connected Cars and Smart Grid; these are
just some of the reasons why KT has been so keen to get more involved in the
HomeGrid Forum.”
HomeGrid Forum offers multiple membership levels within the organization. To
review the membership levels and associated benefits, please visit https://homegridforum.org/join/.
