7.2. HomePNA 2.0 QAM

The establishment of the HomePNA 1.0 standard was a success story for a group of industry promoters and supporters. These efforts involved laboratory testing, field verification, and compromising. Right after the confirmation of the HomePNA 1.0, the HomePNA consortium started the standardization effort of HomePNA 2.0 for a higher transmission throughput. It was the goal that the 2.0 version should be backward-compatible with the 1.0 version. Many participating companies have contributed individually or jointly. The joint technology proposal from Epigram and Lucent was selected as the base for the HomePNA 2.0 specifications. Because of its successful proposal, Epigram was subsequently bought by Broadcom. Very few knew that ...

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