BEAVERTON, ORE. – HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance, both U.S.-based organizations promoting the home networking industry, announced today they will merge under the HomeGrid Forum name.
The combined organization says its mandate will be to promote the market migration of current generation wireline home networking technologies already deployed worldwide to G.hn, which HGF describes as the “any wire” technology defined by ITU-T open international standards
HGS says it will guide member companies that are planning new networks based on G.hn as well as migrating from earlier network technologies to G.hn. It will also continue to support the installed base of over 40 million certified HomePNA devices.
“HomePNA is a mature, field proven technology, and continues to be selected by large service providers worldwide for IPTV deployments,” said HomePNA president Eran Gureshnik in a statement. “However, the obvious future direction for all wireline home networking is to migrate to G.hn. Therefore, it made sense for us to merge the HomePNA Alliance with the HomeGrid Forum at this time, providing a clear, strong vision to existing and new customers.”
The merged HomeGrid Forum has more than 70 members, including 28 service providers, and some of the largest OEMs, ODMs and retailers in the world.
