Future Trends – What will be the practical and secure medium?

• Cable-connected medium may be High-speed, secure & surge-protected

Green & Eco-friendly Superfast Networking the answer, but more copper & PLC Home-network with CLLI
My vision – by Inventor of PLC-CLLI on Feb 27 2010
insulators and resources will be
needed – not eco-friendly;
When HDTV, High-speed internet and multi-room high-speed network are widely
• A practical, if not the practical
used, a new kind of awareness will surface: There will be increasing need for
medium will be PLC or power-line
PLC as a viable, low-cost, eco-friendly and high-speed network-carrier!
communications, but inherent-
That’s when PLC-CLLI will be needed to enhance PLC-performance!
problems still must be solved
(that’s where PLC-CLLI will pave
the way);
• For a decade, the next demands High-speed, secure & surge-protected • WIFI may not be fast enough for
for network transfer-speeds PLC Home-network
HDTV or Video-streaming.
may probably hover around
100Mbps ~ 1Gbps;
• Access transfer-speeds may
Is there a future for PLC? Why?
also reach 1Gbps, with FTTH • Very bright future – being very cost effective when used with PLC-CLLI!
(that’s when high-speed in- • No new wire is needed;
premises network becomes • Green & Eco-friendly – no new wire is needed;
necessary & desirable); • Fast & secure – when used with PLC-CLLI.
• WIMAX-technologies may make
WIFI obsolete, but not in the How will PLC-CLLI enhance PLC-performance while being eco-
near future friendly?
• Mobile devices may increase, but fixed home or office equipment will • 2-pronged enhancements – PLC-frequency-friendly filters + Noise-
all require connections to the POWER-line and NETWORK-servers; reduction filters are employed (see patent details in PCT-status link)
• Most home-appliances will be able to communicate with one another, • PLC-CLLI enables equipment to be protected from lightning & surges,
simply by being plugged into the power-line (this is where PLC-CLLI making it eco-friendly by preserving & conserving finite resources
will pave the way); which will otherwise be damaged and replaced;
• Demands for low-noise, surge-protected and PLC-friendly interface- • Enables multiple equipment to be sharing from one wall-power-outlet
devices or apparatus will increase! Here is where PLC-CLLI will fill the – no new wiring is needed.
gap! (please see patent-filing, PCT-status attached)
MD-PLC-2 or -3 (+E)
What will be the preferred medium of data-transfer? NILI-PLC-1
• Wireless media may be WIFI is most convenient but sharing Short AC cord
preferred, but security may still air-wave makes it less secure For cleaner
Power-line
be a issue;
• Sharing of air-waves may cause
transfer-rate to slow down, NILI-PLC-1 PLCI-MODULE
besides being less secure;
• The next choice may have to be
PLC – no new wire but very
secure at high-speed!
 PLC-CLLI Is Effective & Eco-Friendly How to create HIGH-speed, ISOLATED & SAFE-island for a PLC-
adapter setup?
You need not re-invent the wheel to help save the world! Entertainment
Simply add PLC-CLLI to PLC-setup, and Most Power-line Communications
At location A: Media Centre At location B:
problems disappear! Thanks to experiences gained by CAL-LAB in selling PLC-CLLI PLC-CLLI
1,000,000 CLLI, each to create an ISOLATED & SAFE-island. SP9201-DSL
PLC-adapter PLC-adapter
What Power-line problems for PLC & why?
Power-line Problems Reasons SAFE-island SAFE-island
Circuit-routing configuration & Circuit-breakers, AFCI, Filters, etc.
Regulation-requirement (Adapters behind AFCI may be slower) Modem-router Game-console
(Electrical wiring methods) Server-PC PC
RF-noises & Distortions Motors, Switching power-supplies, etc. Home-ent.
Set-top box
(Many connected devices inject RF-
TV-display TV-display
noises into the powerline)
Load-impedance Changes Capacitive or heavy loads
Attenuation or Signal-decay Wire-lengths or resonance-effect
At location C: Network At location D: Network
How could PLC-CLLI be environmentally friendly?
PLC-CLLI PLC-CLLI
What Kind of saving? How?
Help conserve energy PLC-adapters automatically use less
PLC-adapter PLC-adapter
(low-power + fast-transfer) power when SNR-condition improves!
Conserve finite resources Enables adapters and all interconnected SAFE-island SAFE-island
(No damaged equipment to be equipment to be effectively safe from
thrown away and replaced) lightning damages. Desktop PC Notebook
Reduce consumption of Copper PLC-CLLI can help make PLC-adapters Printer
PC
& Insulator become viable & low-cost.
Phone-charger
(No new wire needed, when PLC- (Once end-users are happy with PLC, no
technology is practical & viable) additional cabling is needed) TV-Projector

How to apply PLC-CLLI in real-life PLC-setups? At location E: WIFI Extender At location F: Noise-filter
For what setup? Use what CLLI-version?
1 Internet + PC or Cable-modem + MD-PLC-2 (or -3) + SP9201-DSL (or PLC-CLLI
Blu-ray + Display -DAF) + multi-gang outlets NILI-PLC-1
2 Network-terminal PC, Game- MD-2 (or -3) / PLC-WP3
console, Home-entertainment Add multi-gang outlets, if necessary PLC-adapter
3 Noise-generating Equipment NILI-PLC-1 / NILI-WP1 / SC-NIF-1 SAFE-island SAFE-island
(Phone-charger, PC, Modem-router, Add multi-gang outlets, if necessary Any device or
Any machine with switching power- Wi-Fi + PLC
equipment that
supply, Vacuum-cleaner, Hair-dryer, attenuates signal or
Notebook-PC generates noise
Halogen-lamp, etc.)
4 To build into Power-supply cable Ask for customized versions or
or add to Noise-generating modules. For more info on how to identify what version of PLC-CLLI to be employed and how
equipment to create a high-speed SAFE-island for each setup, please contact us:
Email – callab@callab.com.my / callabkl@gmail.com Phone: +6012-7718225
Or visit : www.cal-lab.com
 The electrical interface protecting apparatus is
CAL-LAB PLC-CLLI – PCT Status coupled between the wall-outlet and
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2009116849&IA=MY2009000026&DISPLAY=STATUS connected equipment to solve the difficulty of
keeping broadband over power line modems
(WO/2009/116849) ELECTRICAL INTERFACE PROTECTING APPARATUS
and connected equipment safe from lightning
and power surges while at the same time
• Biblio. Data
• Description Abstract: functions effectively. The apparatus includes a
• Claims low pass filter to prevent symmetrical signals
• National Phase from being attenuated and also an
• Notices electromagnetic interference filter to provide clean and safe power at another outlet while
• Documents
preventing noise generated by connected equipment from being injected into the power line.
It also provides a grounding means which reduces the leakage current flowing into the earth
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Link: http://www.edn.com/article/CA6676165.html#Revisiting_power_line
Netgear HomePlug AV-dedicated hardware, even at a two-node deficit. Gigle is
working on firmware improvements, both to increase the number of supported
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nodes and to bond the HomePlug AV and Mediaxtream channels together rather
Revisiting power line than using a more elementary either-not-both approach.
I have so far been unable to dispense with HomePlug AV in my LAN, so I’ve spent
some time determining whether I could improve the technology’s robustness. In a (Figure A)
sense, the power-line approach has an inherent advantage: The adapters can
directly transfer data between them over the power grid with minimal router
interaction. However, surge protectors and noise filters are equal parts curses and
blessings for power-line networking. You can’t plug an Ethernet-to-power-line
adapter into them because the filter circuitry siphons off the networking data stream
that’s multiplexed on the ac-waveform carrier signal. Their omission from power-
grid noise sources is equally debilitating to the power-line network, however.

Some signal attenuators are fairly obvious, notably motor-based products, such
as stand-alone fans, heaters, air conditioners, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners,
hair dryers, and the like. Other more obscure noise sources include the
switching power supplies in ac/dc converters and battery chargers. Companies
such as Cal-Lab sell specialized hardware that combines an unfiltered outlet
for the power-line-networking adapter and a filtered connection, which also
protects against lightning and other power surges, for noise-generating gear
For More Information
(Figure A). Similarly, Intellon recently sent me two PowerNet 200 HomePlug
AV adapters that Monster Cable sells; the adapters integrate two filtered and Apple Atheros Communications Belkin International
protected power outlets www.apple.com www.atheros.com www.belkin.com

Gigle Semiconductor recently partnered with Belkin to unveil Belkin’s F5D4076 Broadcom Cal-Lab Dell
gigabit power-line-networking adapters, which Gigle based on its GGL541 IC. The
www.broadcom.com www.cal-lab.com www.dell.com
GGL541 supports both HomePlug AV, which operates in the 2- to 28-MHz band,
and Gigle’s proprietary Mediaxtream technology, which uses the 50- to 300-MHz
band. Like 5-GHz Wi-Fi versus 2.4-GHz 802.11, Mediaxtream’s higher frequency D-Link Gigle Semiconductor Intellon
delivers potentially higher performance. Indicative of this promise, the F5D4076 www.dlink.com www.gigle.biz www.intellon.com
includes a 1-GbE (gigabit-Ethernet) transceiver, whereas consumer HomePlug AV
adapters belie their "200-Mbps" marketing claims by embedding only 10/100-Mbps Linksys Microsoft Monster Cable Products
PHY (physical-layer) interfaces.
However, again as with 5-GHz versus 2.4-GHz wireless, Mediaxtream has notably www.linksysbycisco.com www.microsoft.com www.monstercable.com
shorter usable range than does HomePlug AV. The initial production firmware in the
Belkin adapters selects either HomePlug AV or Mediaxtream mode, depending on Netgear Roku Sony
the power-grid characteristics that the ICs’ embedded DSPs determine at power-
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up. As you can see from the Network Performance Tuner plot, the adapters have
selected HomePlug AV mode in my setup. In fact, they run slightly slower than my
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