The phone-line networking solutions will be compatible with standards from the Home Phoneline Networking Association, an industry-sponsored group that has developed standards for home networking.

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When it is finished in the second half of this year, the specification is expected to deliver data rates of 10Mbps for home phoneline networking and also to be backward-compatible and interoperate with existing HomePNA 1Mbps technology.

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Phoneline home networking uses existing telephone wires to connect computers and peripherals to each other.

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