HomePlug AV has been the powerline technology of choice, and AV2 provides an aggressive migrationpath to support greater network capacity and distribution of ultra-high quality content throughout the home.
These providers require a migrationpath 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.
The typical migrationpath 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.