WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 60 / 356
API-2000-LV: Low Voltage Gateway/Head-End device for indoor or outdoor use that
features: 205 Mbps, Time Division repeater, Head-End support, Support for up to 64
simultaneous PLC connections (slaves), Bridge table capacity of up to 1024 MAC
addresses, High receiver sensitivity to ensure high distance coverage, HTTP based
configuration and monitoring interface, Industrialized command line console as alternate
means of configuration, Simple and easy to use system concept for VLAN and QoS
services, PLC signaling to minimize configuration parameters and enhance robustness,
SNMP agent to facilitate management of larger networks.
API-2000-MV: Medium Voltage Node/Head-End device for indoor or outdoor use that
features: 205 Mbps, Secure data transmission, Full remote network management, Integrated
DHCP and FTP services to support automatic remote configuration of any size network,
SNMP agents enable efficient integration into standard network management systems,
HTTP for individual node configuration/monitoring, API-2000-MV units are small enough to fit
anywhere, Standard interfaces ease the interconnection.
5.1.4.4 Ilevo (Schneider)
Ilevo was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Schneider Electric. Ilevo is a leading
provider of solutions for broadband communications infrastructures using electrical networks,
with the purpose to constitute a PLC network intended for multimedia, energy, and power &
control applications. Schneider Electric (Stock market of Paris: Schneider Electric SA) is the
world-wide leader in Management and Control of the Electrical Energy, causing that is
available, reliable, efficient and safe in all type of applications in the markets of the
construction, the industry, the energy and infrastructure and the home. Schneider Electric
manufactures and commercializes an extensive product range and services through his
global marks, Merlin Gerin, Square D and Telemecanique participating in four strategic
activities: the electrical distribution in average and low tension, the industrial control and the
automatism. Schneider Electric uses to 105,000 people at global level, she has operations in
190 countries and she is present at in 190, and sales by €13.700 million in 2006 through
15,000 points of sale
Some PLC products supplied by Ilevo, with respective features are presented below: