Global - Utilities Broadband - Trends & Analyses highlights how obstacles still continue...

Global - Utilities Broadband - Trends & Analyses highlights how obstacles still continue to hinder the BPL industry

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ebf47e/global_utilities)
has announced the addition of the "Global - Utilities Broadband -
Trends & Analyses" report to their offering.

Several obstacles still continue to hinder the BPL industry. For
several years the lack of an international standard has held the
industry back and questions remain regarding the technical viability
of BPL. On a positive note, there is progress in terms of
standardisation - in late 2007 a joint IEEE standards proposal was
submitted by the HomePlug Powerline Alliance and Panasonic. However,
with mainly low-risk-taking utilities involved in this market, they
have become unwilling to take-on the telcos in the broadband market.
Instead they are more interested to look at the use BPL for smart grid
applications and Demand Side Management services. BPL also offers
benefits in home networking due to its ubiquity. This report provides
an analysis of the market, including an overview of the current and
future market, a SWOT analysis, and discussion on latest developments
and trends. Further information on Smart Grids can be found in
separate reports. Note: Developments are also known as Utilities
Broadband or Broadband Utilities.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Synopsis

2. Introduction

3. BPL market overview

4. BPL review

4.1 Reviewing BPL as a broadband access technology

4.2 Reviewing BPL and Smart Grids

4.3 Looking towards 2015

5. BPL SWOT analysis

5.1 Strengths

5.2 Weaknesses

5.3 Opportunities

5.4 Threats

6. Selecting the right business model

7. Utilities as telcos

8. Full circle for utilities telecoms - Analysis

8.1 Smart Grids

8.2 BPL in developing countries

8.3 BPL - better than wireless

9. Other developments

9.1 Requirements for BPL standard

9.1.1 Difficulty in developing a global standard

9.1.2 OPERA to boost adoption of low cost BPL applications

10. Analysing telecoms and the electricity utilities

11. Related reports

Table 1 - BPL networking equipment unit sales worldwide - 2006 -
2007 Exhibit 1 - Potential BPL applications

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