Panasonic BL-PA100KT Great Features for Enhancing Home Entertainment, High Reliability

Great Features for Enhancing Home Entertainment

1 Excellent Utility Can be used anywhere that has a power outlet.

4 Economy — No Wiring Needed No need to drill holes in the wall or use unsightly cables.

The HD-PLC Ethernet Adaptor turns every power outlet in the house into an Internet access point. Just like plugging an electric cord into the outlet, you insert the

HD-PLC Ethernet Adaptor plug and you're ready to log on to the Internet. It's a super-easy home network, with no need for complicated cables.

PC	BL-PA100
	(Terminal)

Outlet

Electrical wiring

No need to drill holes in the wall or	modem or router cables to your		Unattractive		Neat wall
use unsightly cables. Because you	PC, so there is no need to drill		wall with cables		without cables
can use your existing electrical	holes or run cables along the floor
wiring and power outlets, you save	or wall. In addition to being
the expense of wiring. You also	economical, this preserves the
don't need to extend any cable	room's appearance.
		Without HD-PLC Adaptor		With HD-PLC Adaptor
		LAN cables must be used for		There is no need to route cables, and
		connection.The unsightly cables		it is economical. The room also looks
		ruin the appearance of the room.		neat without any cables in sight.

Outlet	Outlet
	BL-PA100
	(Master)

5 High Reliability Superb security features without complicated settings.

Internet	PC
Modem/Router	BL-PA100
	(Terminal)

2 Easy Set-up — No PC Required Settings are easy for anybody to make.

The HD-PLC Ethernet Adaptor comes standard with AES* 128-bit encryption, and the security settings are made automatically without any need for a PC. This easy set-up ensures a high level of safety and no setting mistakes. Also, because it uses household power outlets, data communication

walls as it is with wireless LAN systems, so you enjoy smooth and easy network communication.

*AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard. It is a next-generation encryption standard approved in 2001 by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), an organization under the U.S. Department of Commerce, as a standard encryption technique to be adopted by the U.S. government. Vulnerabilities discovered in the previous DES (Data Encryption Standard) were eliminated in AES.

Using a wireless LAN

•Security settings are

complicated.
•Obstacles such as thick	PC
walls can block
communications.

Internet	PC
	Modem/
	Router

There's no tricky installation or complicated settings. Just take the BL-PA100KT*1out of the box and

Adding more HD-PLC adaptors

1. Plug it in 2. Push two buttons 3.Watch it light up

is not blocked by obstacles like

plug it into the power outlet. Set up the other equipment on the network, such as routers and PCs, as described in their respective instructions. Adding more HD-PLC Ethernet Adaptors*2 is easy too, using the quick 3-step procedure shown here.

*1 Contains a set of two BL-PA100 units. One HD-PLC Ethernet Adaptor can be set as the Master unit, and individual Terminal units can be registered. One of the

Plug the Master and	Push the Setup button on
Terminal units into the	each unit.
same power outlet.
Master

AC PUSH

The PLC lamp lights up to show that set-up is complete. You can move the units anywhere you want to go online at home.

Master CHECK

PLC

Terminal CHECK

Panasonic HD-PLC Features

HD-PLC is a proprietary Panasonic technology	Bandwidth of AC Power Line Signals
that enables high-speed, high-quality,	AC
stable data transmission.	Power	Lower-Speed	High-Speed PLC	HD-PLC*
		PLC
	Supply
	50/60 Hz	<500 kHz	2 MHz~30 MHz

*HD-PLC uses the 4- to 28-MHz range in this frequency band.

BL-PA100KT units is set as a Master unit and the other is set as a Terminal unit when they are shipped from the factory. *2 BL-PA100

Terminal

Master/Terminal

PLC

Wavelet OFDM System

The HD-PLC PHY (physical layer) uses Wavelet OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology to achieve highly efficient transmission with characteristics that

FFT-Based OFDM Spectrum	Wavelet OFDM Spectrum
10	10	-13dB
0	0

3 High-Speed Communication Fast, comfortable communication of high-volume data.

exceed even FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)-based OFDM systems. Wavelet OFDM features greater speed efficiency and forms a deeper "flexible notch" that prevents interference with

(dB)	-10	(dB)	-10	Deeper
Magnitude	-20	Magnitude	-20
				Notch
	-30		-30

Fast, comfortable communication of high-volume data. At a theoretical maximum transmission speed of 190 Mbps, the system is faster than a wireless LAN system,

more comfortable network	*1 The indicated speed is only valid for the
	moment at which it was measured.
environment. You no longer have
	It does not imply that the indicated speed
to feel frustrated because of slow	will continue.
	*2 It does not indicate the communications
data transmission.
	speed between Terminals.

shortwave and other broadcasts. This is achieved by appropriately modulating the sub-carrier and by including no guard interval.

-40						-40
-50						-50						-35dB
-60	5	10	15	20	25	-60	5	10	15	20	25	30
0						0
	Frequency (MHz)						Frequency (MHz)

even when comparing actual system speeds. Also, a simple

Refer to the chart below to determine the network speed.

Stable Data Communication Performance

Quick Response for Optimizing Data Transfer when Conditions Change

speed measurement function*1 shows the communication speed between Master and Terminal units.*2 The speed is measured by simply pressing a button on the Terminal, so you can easily find which power outlets give you the

PLC

Front	LAN
panel
	Master

Network

speed

No link

Good

Less than

10 Mbps*3

Better

10 Mbps to

30 Mbps*3

Best

More than 30 Mbps*3

The BL-PA100 quickly detects fluctuations in the data transmission path caused by noise and other factors, and determines the optimal data transmission method to enable maximum throughput at that point in time and achieve stable communication performance. Strong error correction coding and a diversity mode also boost reliability in poor-quality home power lines.

200

AQuickly finds maximum transmission rate

(Mbps)	150		B Quickly resumes communications
	100	B	B
Speed		A	A
	50
	0		Time (sec)
		Dryer ON (30 sec)	Dryer ON (30 sec)

highest communication speed for a

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*3 Approximate data transmission speed when transmitting data using the UDP protocol.

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