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Power line communication (PLC) is wireline method of communication using the electric power transmission lines.

There are two main classes of PLC :

- PLOC Power Line Outdoors Telecoms: this is the telecoms between electric substations and home networks (electro-modems). The standard is ETSI PLT', twenty times faster than ADSL.

For the middle mile (upto the substations), utilities can use optical fiber backbone or wireless link.


- PLIC Power Line Indoors or Internal Telecoms: This is using the home grid to establish telecoms, such as the Homeplug system. PLIC is one of the technologies used in domotics (another is wireless telecoms; the utilities can offer too wireless middleware (integrated PLC and WiFi based structure).

PUA is the PLC Utilities Alliance.

See also: electric market, deregulation, liberalization.

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