TelecomWeb broadband over powerlines (BPL) in Mexico

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"BPL Makes It To Mexico

The first known installation of broadband over powerlines (BPL) in Mexico has gone live at a 400-year-old monastery and hacienda in use these days as a luxury hotel.

The installation, by Telkonet, comes on the heels of Telkonets iWire System receiving Mexicos Norma Official Mexicana (NOM) certification a required pre-requisite to selling almost anything in Mexico. NOM certification basically attests that a product meets all applicable Mexican standards and labelling requirements.

Telkonet said that the Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc, a luxury complex with 287 rooms and suites plus a convention center, turned to BPL in part because the monastery has walls that are, in places, four feet thick. Such solutions as Wi-Fi, thus, wont work, and installing wired broadband could have damaged the historic building. The company also had to contend with old electrical wiring in some areas (obviously not 400-year-old wiring) and, in the end, it could wire only 80 percent of the rooms, although it did reach all of the hotels 22 conference rooms and various other public areas."


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