Disadvantages of BPL
The technology is fairly new, it would require more studying and understanding as there are no international guidelines that are set.
- The power lines when they carry such high-frequency data, cause noise pollution as they tend to be noisy. Which in turn would make it uncomfortable for the people.
- There’s no framework for telecom and service provider companies.
- Only Medium voltage and high voltage lines can be used for transmission of the internet.
- There’s no set of protocols that would help developing countries to start their journey toward inheriting BPL.
- They are more likely to be interfered with by external factors.
- Interferences with other radio waves are one of the major drawbacks of the technology.
BPL Full Form (Broadband over Power Lines)
BPL Full Form (Broadband over Power Lines): BPL is the short form for Broadband over Power Lines. This is also known as IPL (Internet over Power Lines). A broadband connection is quite easily available for users/consumers in the urban and suburban areas of India. India still to this day, have issues with connecting rural areas to the Internet. To overcome this, there are several solutions. One of them is BPL. The need of introducing the BPL is to enable the user to access the Internet by Simply using the currently existing power lines. The user will need a special modem (broadband) that will just need access to the power lines (say our normal switchboard) and soon after connecting the modem with the switchboard the user should be able to access the Internet. As there would not be a lot of friction in setting up new cables or use of expensive optical wires for achieving high-speed internet. Since the basic infrastructure is already present. It is based upon the already existing PCL (Power Line Communication) technology which uses OFDM Modulation.