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HomeGrid Forum
The HomeGrid Forum is a non-profit trade group promoting G.hn. HomeGrid Forum provides technical and marketing efforts, addresses certification and interoperability of G.hn-compliant products, and cooperates with complementary industry alliances.
HomeGrid Forum members include Allion Test Labs, Inc., ARRIS, AT&T, BC Institute of Technology, Best Buy, British Telecom (BT), Chunghwa Telecom, COMTREND Corporation, Holland Electronics, LLC, Institute for Information Industry (III), Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI), Korea Polytechnic University (KPU), Kwangwoon University, LAN S.A.R.L, Marvell, Metanoia Communications, Inc., MitraStar, Sigma Designs, Teleconnect GmbH, Telefónica, The University of British Columbia, TRaC Global, and Xingtera Inc.
Vendors
Vendors promoting G.hn include Lantiq, microprocessor manufacturer Intel, system-on-a-chip vendor Sigma Designs, and Xingtera, which announced a product in January 2013.
The first live public demonstration of G.hn interoperability was shown at CES, January 10–13, 2012 by Lantiq, Marvell Technology Group, Metanoia, and Sigma Designs.
Service providers
On February 26, 2009, as part of a HomePNA press release, AT&T (which makes use of wireline home networking as part of its U-Verse IPTV service) expressed support for the work developed by ITU-T creating standards for home networking, including G.hn.
Service providers like AT&T promoted G.hn for:
- Connect to any room no matter what the wiring type may be.
- Enable customer self-install
- Built-in diagnostic information and remote management
- Multiple silicon and equipment suppliers
Other service providers that are contributors to the work ITU-T Study Group include British Telecom, Telefónica, and AT&T.
Equipment vendors
On April 2008, during the first announcement of HomeGrid Forum, Echostar, a manufacturer of set-top boxes for the service provider market, expressed its support for the unified standard:
Consumer electronics
On March 2009, Best Buy (which is the largest retailer of consumer electronics in the United States) joined the board of directors of HomeGrid Forum and expressed its support for G.hn.
Panasonic, one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, is also a contributor member of HomeGrid Forum.
Analysts
In 2008, several marketing firms promoted G.hn and made optimistic predictions.
Other organizations
On February 25, 2009, three home networking organizations that promoted previously incompatible technologies (CEPCA, HomePNA and the Universal Powerline Association), announced they agreed to work with Homegrid Forum to promote G.hn as the single next-generation standard for wired home networking, and to work to ensure coexistence with existing products in the market.
On October 2008, the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) and HomeGrid Forum signed a liaison agreement to support HomeGrid Forum’s efforts in conjunction with ITU-T G.hn to make it easy for consumers to connect devices and enjoy innovative applications using existing home wiring.
On July 2009, HomeGrid Forum and DLNA signed a liaison agreement “setting the stage for collaboration between the two organizations and the approval of G.hn as a DLNA-recognized Physical Layer technology”.
On June 2010, Broadband Forum and HomeGrid Forum signed an agreement to deliver a compliance and interoperability testing program for products using G.hn technology. The Broadband Forum will support HomeGrid Forum’s validation of G.hn products, their promotion of product conformance and interoperability, and help expedite the total time to market for HomeGrid Forum Certified products. On May 2011, both organizations jointly announced the first open G.hn plugfest.