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 The HomePlug Powerline Alliance is a global organization consisting of over 50 member companies. It was founded in March 2000 to provide a forum for the creation of specifications for home power line networking products and services.

The Alliance's mission is to enable and promote rapid availability, adoption and implementation of cost-effective, interoperable and standards-based home power line networks and products.

The Alliance members bring necessary capabilities and a financial commitment to the successful launch of the technology.

Service and Content New services content to pull demand for network devices, requirements for network to support services, usage models, provisioning, and customer care.

Retail Channels for sales & support of networked devices, installation and support services, consumer education.

Hardware Connected devices to enable new classes of services via the Internet or other networks – PC, CE, Networking.

Software Software services and applications to simplify setup and use of the network.

Silicon Cost effective silicon with a variety of feature sets to support a broad variety of products.

Technology Enabling technology that meets requirements for performance, cost, and is scalable to future generations.

Homplug compatible products use the chipset from the developer Intellon and are all interoperable.

www.homeplug.org