SUMMARY

With the exception of battery-operated devices, everything electrical in your home is already connected to the powerline network. This makes the powerline a natural choice for home networking. Powerline networking allows you to connect your in-home appliances to the rest of the world through any electrical outlet. X-10 and CEBus are two popular technologies that deliver data over lines that previously delivered only electricity. A company called Enikia is providing a range of products and competing technologies that allow home electronics devices such as set-top boxes to connect to a powerline home network via the nearest electrical outlet.

Inari PNT provides a set of network technology ingredients and components that enables OEMs that ...

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