Intellon Corporation, a company that has developed chipsets that permit data communications through the electric socket in your home or office, will now be a part of Motorola’s Powerline LV(low-voltage) end-to-end Broadband over Powerline (BPL) solution. The Powerline LV incorporates Intellon’s HomePlug 1.0 1NT5200 chipset as the primary enabler of low voltage, high speed communications over electrified power lines. In order to implement a utility pole compatible solution, Motorola has combined Intellon’s HomePlug chip technology with its own Canopy Broadband Internet Platform. That solution brings the broadband signal to a utility pole via a wireless connection. The broadband signal is then brought into the home or office over the power line through a low voltage powerline communication signal.
 
Tony Pirih, corporate vice president at the Canopy Wireless Broadband Group of Motorola indicated that the solution should entice utilities to enter the broadband market, "By combining the best attributes of wireless and powerline communications, Powerline LV offers a very attractive way for utility companies to enter the BPL market. We are pleased to be working with Intellon to incorporate the standards-based HomePlug technology with our proven Canopy Broadband Internet Platform."

Because of limited broadband access in rural areas, those regions may be one of the first to adopt the technology. Intellon reported that only three pieces of equipment were needed to implement a connection. These include a Powerline LV access point cluster, an integrated antenna and bridge router and an Intellon enabled modem.

Motorola’s HomePlug 1.0 technology  based solution presently supports transmission protocol rates up to 14M bps, however Motorola has plans to use Intellon’s recently announced Turbo INT5500CS chipset. That chipset provides an 85 Mbps transmission rate.