[IP] BPL Good Morning Silicon Valley
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Maybe broadband over power line (BPL) really is coming of age.
Trials, as well as commercial deployments of BPL systems have been on
the rise lately, and now investment dollars are beginning to drift
toward the companies developing them. Case in point, Google's
investment in Current Communications Group, one of the more promising
BPL ventures in the space. The search leader, with Goldman Sachs and
Hearst, is investing about $100 million in Current, which today
operates the largest BPL deployment in the country in Cincinnati.The
investment is a noteworthy one for Google, which has long expressed
interest in promoting universal access to the Internet and BPL as
well. BPL, while a difficult environment for transmitting digital
information, promises to someday transform the broadband market and
the utility space, the former by turning every electrical outlet into
an always-on Web connection and bringing broadband access to remote
rural areas, the latter by clearing the way for utility companies to
claim a portion of the broadband market.
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