BoPL

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BoPL

• IEEE-SA, July 20, 2004
• Meeting Chair Dujour Alexander D. Gelman,
  IEEE/ComSoc

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BoPL Meeting Agenda

• Formulation of the mission statement
• Proposed mission of this group is to draft a BoPL
  deployment strategy and establish a scope for
• standardization at IEEE-SA and relevant
  positioning with respect to other industry and
  standards
• bodies
• Position statements
• Position Statements on any relevant to BoPL
  issues, e.g. on discussion items of part-3 are
  solicited
• Utilities (e.g. EPRI, CEIDS)
• IEEE-SA -
• IEEE-ComSoc - Alex Gelman
• IEEE-EMC
• IEEE-PES - John Newbury
• HomePlug Oleg Logvinov
• Telcordia Technologies Jeff Boksiner
• PLCA - Alan Sharks
• DS2 - Victor Dominguez
• 3. Discussion Items BoPL The Big Picture and
  IEEE-SA Strategy
• Service Value Chain
• Supplier Value Chain

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Serving The Industry Standards
Raouf Boutaba et. al.
Target Increase a perceived value of ComSoc to
the industry by projecting relevance of ComSoc in
later phases of Intellectual Property creation
value chain

• Approach
• Sponsor Standardization within IEEE-SA of core
  technologies and running
• Technical activities in conjunction with IEEE-SA
  groups
• Offer technical activities in conjunction and in
  synch with IEEE-SA WGs
• Facilitate industrys IPR value chain evolution

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Broadband over PowerLine Service Architecture
New Mass-Market Communications Industry segment
is being born
Courtesy Enikia, Inc. Modified - ADG
ISP
EML
ASP
PowerLine Access Router - PLAR
BoPL OSS
Fiber To The Transformer FT3
Element Management Layer
CE Device Mgt. POrtal
Operations Support System
BoPL Technology is in the stage of competitive
research and exploratory development
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Broadband over PowerLine Possible Supply Value
Chain
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BoPL Standardization Scenario
Liaison
Liaison
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Facilitating Creation of a New BoPL Industry
Segment
BPL MC
IEEE-SA Standard Co-sponsorship
CommMag FT
JSAC series
Interaction with Industry Players (Utilities,
EPRI, startups, etc)
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Cooperation is required between Standards groups
and then between BoPL operators (Utilities),
ISPs, ASPs, CE White Goods Suppliers.Cooperatio
n among IEEE Societies will certainly be
fruitful.But partners need to understand each
others intent and business models,
otherwise..