IP Technologies White Papers
Addressing the Digital Divide With IPv6-Enabled Broadband Power Line Communications
Overview Power Line Communications (PLC) allows transmission of data over power lines. PLC is potentially the network with the deepest capillarity in the world, since power lines are almost ubiquitous. IPv6 provides a package of highly scaleable enhancements to the Internet compared to the capabilities of the existing IPv4 protocol, which is today only sustained by Network Address Translation (NAT). NAT has unfortunately created unexpected barriers during the massive growth of the Internet, consequently breaking the initial end-to-end communications concept.
| Publisher | Internet Society | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | May 2003 | Downloads | 24 |
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