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David Powell, Managing Director, International, Telkonet

David Powell is Managing Director, International, at Telkonet, a leading publicly-traded company (stock symbol: TKO) in the power line communications (PLC) space. At Telkonet, Mr. Powell is responsible for worldwide sales and marketing of Telkonet's PLC products.

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. Powell spoke today with Broadband over Power Line World about two specific recent developments involving his company: Telkonet's receiving, on March 1, 2005, the Conformite Europeene (CE) certification, indicating that its high-speed Internet access system has met rigorous testing standards set up by the European Union (EU), which are more stringent than those required from Underwriters Laboratory (UL) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for products to be sold in the U.S., and is consequently now approved for sale throughout the European EU and the announcement today, March 10, 2005, that Telkonet's broadband PLC products would now be resold in Turkey by SINLAK Electronics and Telecom Co., a member of SINLAK Holdings.

Mr. Powell explained the deployment of Telkonet's PlugPlus™ system for putting broadband Internet connectivity into hotels, multiple-dwelling units (MDUs), schools, dormitories, and office buildings by attaching an Internet gateway and couplers to a pre-existing electrical backbone in a structure.

Providing broadband Internet access at every electrical outlet in building, he said, avoids the delays, expense, and patchy availability involved in using CAT-5 or Wi-Fi solutions in many of these environments. By empowering all electrical outlets in, for example, a hotel, with Telkonet Gateway and Telkonet Coupler technology, hotel management can then simply provide those guests desiring broadband Internet access in their rooms with a Telkonet iBridge, which they can use to connect their computing devices to the Internet by plugging it into any wall socket in their rooms.

By attaching a wireless access point (WAP) to an iBridge plugged into an electrical socket in common areas, such as lobbies, Mr. Powell pointed out, broadband connectivity can be easily provided in these spaces as well, guaranteeing hotel guests a seamless and ubiquitous broadband Internet environment during their stay in the building.

Mr. Powell also discussed how the awarding to Telkonet of the CE certification from the European Union now makes it possible for the company to sell its certified products throughout this now-25-nation common market, which, since May 1, 2004, now includes 10 new, mostly-former Soviet-bloc, countries.

You can listen to this interview with David Powell, Managing Director, International, at Telkonet, a Maryland, U.S.-based company that designs and manufactures its products in the U.S., by clicking here.