Nessum Alliance to Celebrate First-Ever Plugfest for Broadband over Power Line (BPL) products at Enlit 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
20 November 2025
Uploaded to Enlit Portal: 24 October 2025
🌍 Nessum Alliance to Celebrate First-Ever Plugfest of Broadband over Power Line (BPL) products at Enlit 2025
Bilbao, Spain — The Nessum Alliance is proud to announce its inaugural global Plugfest, taking place at Enlit 2025 in Bilbao. This landmark event will showcase the interoperability of IEEE1901-based Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology, uniting six leading OEMs from six countries across three continents.
Participating companies include:
ECOLINQX (USA), GE Vernova (USA), GigaFast (Taiwan), Helvetia (Japan),
Power Plus Communication AG (Germany), and Teldat (Spain).
These OEMs will demonstrate how their Nessum-enabled products—powered by chipsets from MegaChips and Socionext, using MAC/PHY IP provided by Panasonic—can seamlessly exchange user data over a single unified powerline network. The demonstration will highlight real-time interoperability across medium and low voltage networks, supporting next-generation SmartGrid applications.
“For many years, utilities have seen BPL as a promising solution for
smart grid communication. However, issues related to standardization and
interoperability have slowed its adoption,” said Mr. Michimasa Aramaki,
President and Chairman of the Nessum Alliance.
“The Nessum Alliance has been dedicated to overcoming these challenges by
promoting the IEEE 1901 international standard. Today, we are proud to mark a
major milestone: the first-ever Plugfest at Enlit 2025, where BPL product
companies from around the world will gather under the Nessum Alliance banner.”
🔌 Unified Connectivity for the Smart Grid
The Plugfest will demonstrate how Nessum technology enables customers to seamlessly connect devices in a broadband network that supports critical applications such as:
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
- Video and other high-bandwidth services
📈 Key Benefits of Nessum Technology
- Upgrades narrowband PLC networks with significantly higher data rates
- Improves throughput via bi-directional, per-remote adaptive modulation
- Extends communication range with lower power consumption
- Supports long cable runs and high-attenuation segments
- Enables flexible spectrum use for scalable deployments
All participating OEMs identified Nessum’s powerline communication technology as a critical enabler for future-proofing smart grid infrastructure.
🔗 Learn More
Explore the companies and technologies behind the Plugfest:
- Visit ECOLINQX website
- GE Vernova MDS™ Orbit PowerNet brochure
- Visit GigaFast website
- Visit Helvetia website
- Visit PPC website
- Visit Teldat website
- Visit Nessum Alliance website
For media inquiries, interviews, or technical briefings, please contact the Nessum Alliance Secretariat via nessum.org.
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