DS2 to supply the Japanese market with HDTV-quality high speed Power Line Communication chips !!!

Leading silicon supplier will meet the new regulatory limits and measurement methods set for High-Speed Power Line Communications.

Tokyo, 07, November, 2006 – DS2 today announced that it is to serve the domestic Japanese market with silicon that meets the EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) requirements for PLC applications recently approved by the Japanese Government. DS2 is the leading provider of high speed silicon for Powerline communications (PLC) applications, including triple play home networking, currently sold to service providers and into retail stores through leading modem manufacturers worldwide,.


The new Japanese regulation is more stringent than similar regulations in force in Europe and the US. The permitted signal level in the 2 Mhz to 15 MHz range is 5 times smaller in Japan and in the 15 to 30 MHz range it is 16 time smaller. These new EMC requirements will put some PLC silicon suppliers in a difficult position. To meet these requirements they will have to reduce throughput to such levels that they will be unable to deliver video.


Ramon Garcia, Director of DS2´s Asian office in Tokyo, states that “DS2 will be able to guarantee a level of throughput that will deliver HDTV while meeting the new requirements. Designed with multimedia in mind from the start, and having unique features such as programmable notch filtering, DS2 has vast overseas experience. Recent developments to meet the Japanese domestic market requirements have proved that DS2 Silicon will be able to clear the stringent limits while maintaining high speeds”.


Telecommunication operators in Hong Kong, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and other overseas markets have compared and selected DS2 technology for their triple play commercial services due to its unqiue features such as high throughput, QoS, remote manageability, repeating function and wide area coverage. Modem manufacturers including Comtrend, Corinex, Netgear, Pirelli, Telsey and others using DS2 technology have succeeded in all continents and have been the first to develop and sell product for multimedia home networking in retail stores.



About DS2

DS2 (www.ds2.es) is the world's leading supplier of the 200 Mbps technology that enables home networking and broadband access over power line, coaxial cable, and telephone wire. DS2 pioneered the industry with the introduction of its 200 Mbps chipsets, creating the fastest and highest performance solution for simultaneous data, digital audio and high-definition video transmission. Two pre-eminent industry groups, the Universal Powerline Association -www.upaplc.org - (UPA) and the European Union consortium OPERA (Open PLC European Research Alliance) have adopted DS2 technology in support of multi-vendor standard certified product. .