HomePlug AV has been the powerline technology of choice, and AV2 provides an aggressive migration path to support greater network capacity and distribution of ultra-high quality content throughout the home.

ENGADGET: HomePlug Powerline Alliance reveals features of new HomePlug AV2 spec

These providers require a migration path to a much higher performance powerline technology to meet future bandwidth demands while maintaining interoperability with their current HomePlug AV installations and future IEEE1901 products.

ENGADGET: HomePlug Powerline Alliance reveals features of new HomePlug AV2 spec

The typical migration path for this cohort of apps is to first place them on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, which at first will typically be on-premise for control purposes, but can then be migrated to a hosted (private) or public cloud later.

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