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Appendix A Product Specifications

PLA-4xx Series User’s Guide

The following list, which is not exhaustive, illustrates the standards supported in the PLA-4xx.

Electromagnetic Interference Example

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) can be introduced to the power circuit by certain

appliances such as hair dryers and lamps.

The figure below demonstrates the use of a hair dryer connected to a power circuit with and

without an EMI filter. The traffic rates given are example values only.

Network Name Change the powerline network name to only allow the powerline

adapters you specify to join your network.

Firmware Upgrade Download new firmware (when available) from the ZyXEL website and

use the configuration utility to install it.

Note: You do not need the configuration utility to install the

latest firmware. Follow the instructions in Section 5.4

on page 48 for installing the latest firmware.

Note: Only install firmware for your specific model!

Table 19 Performance

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

Throughput over PHYsical Transport

Medium (PHY)

Supports up to 200 Mbps in half duplex mode

Throughput over UDP Supports up to 150 Mbps over in-house power/coaxial

lines (LAN port limits to 100 Mbps)

Number of devices in one powerline

network

Supports up to 64 devices in 4 network groups

Table 20 Standards Supported

STANDARD DESCRIPTION

HomePlug AV Designed for transmitting audio/video on a home powerline network.

RFC 868 Time Protocol.

RFC 1112 IGMP v1

RFC 1157 SNMPv1: Simple Network Management Protocol version 1

RFC 1901 SNMP v2c Simple Network Management Protocol version 2c

RFC 2236 Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2.

Table 18 Firmware Specifications

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

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