Corinex AV200 Powerline and CableLAN set the pace for alternative
home networking
Tim Higgins March 24, 2006 15:20
Introduction
At a Glance
Product Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet and CableLAN Adapters
Summary Ethernet to powerline and coax bridges targeted at household
distribution of IPTV and other streaming media without running
CAT 5
Pros • 2X - 3X better average throughput than HomePlug Turbo
• Multicast binding and QoS and VLAN tagging
Cons • Does not interoperate with HomePlug devices (and vice versa)
• Severely interferes with HomePlug devices (and vice versa)
• QoS features diffi cult to confi gure
• Expensive (Powerline $159, CableLAN $179)
My last look at powerline networking products was in the HomePlug Turbo Adapter Round Up, where I
found that the “85 Mbps” advertised speed turned out to be typically 10 Mbps of real, usable bandwidth.
Although this is twice the 5 Mbps delivered by non-turbo HomePlug 1.0 products, it’s still borderline for
IPTV service providers, which is the target customer. The real HomePlug solution for video streaming lies
in HomePlug AV, which, unfortunately seems to remain six to nine months away - as it has for the past
year or so.
This delay has opened a market window that Madrid-based DS2 (Design of Systems on Silicon) has
attacked with a vengeance using its high speed “200 Mbps” powerline technology. DS2’s success to date
has been mostly in markets outside the U.S., since that’s mainly where the action is in IPTV right now. The
company claims an installed base of around 600,000 units with 30,000 in Spanish telecommunications
company Telefonica alone. DS2’s success seems likely to continue, given that Netgear recently
announced that it will be shipping products aimed at the IPTV market, based on DS2’s technology.
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