Al Diehl, Executive Vice President, Telkonet

Al Diehl is Executive Vice President at Telkonet, a leading publicly-traded company (stock symbol: TKO) in the power line communications (PLC) space. At Telkonet, Mr. Diehl is responsible for sales and sales engineering for Telkonet’s vertical markets, including the hospitality, multi-dwelling unit, and government markets.

As compared with broadband over power line (BPL), which deals with the delivery of broadband Internet connectivity over power lines for the "last mile," PLC, or power line communications, deals with the distribution of broadband Internet connectivity within buildings, regardless of how backhaul to the Internet is done, either with BPL, DSL, cable, fixed wireless, fiber optic, satellite or other means.

Mr. Diehl will be a featured speaker at the United Power Line Council's March 23, 2005, audio conference called "BPL Roll-Out: Lessons Learned". You can register for that audio conference by clicking here.

Mr. Diehl previewed his remarks at that audio conference, and discussed in detail and at length the reality and promise of power line communications, and Telkonet's role in its deployment, in an exclusive interview today with Broadband over Power Line World.

You can listen to that conversation in its entirety by clicking here

In that interview, Mr. Diehl discusses the deployment of Telkonet's brand of power line communications, PlugPlus™, in such venues as U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, properties belonging to Donald Trump, hotels, schools, apartment buildings, public housing projects, and the enterprise.

By deploying a gateway and couplers, PlugPlus can be installed in buildings in a day or two, providing broadband Internet access at every electrical socket on the premises, avoiding the need to retrofit with CAT-5 cable and/or put up with interference from structural elements as with Wi-Fi.

PlugPlus is awaiting final certification under the FIPS-140 encryption standard, which will make it eligible for deployment in sensitive U.S. government military and homeland security environments.

At the end of today's trading in New York, Telkonet (stock symbol: TKO) was selling at $4.42.

You can register for the United Power Line Council's March 23, 2005 "BPL Roll-Out: Lessons Learned" audio conference by clicking here.