HomeGrid Forum’s Donna Yasay steps down as President
RealWire
Mon, 07/31/2017 - 10:53

Beaverton, Ore. 31 July 2017 - HomeGrid Forum has announced that Donna Yasay will be stepping down as President following a successful two years with the Forum. Under Donna’s leadership, the HomeGrid Forum has become a pioneer in the networking and communications market, ensuring G.hn products are multi-vendor interoperable even with multi-vendor silicon.

Since becoming President in March 2015, Yasay has overseen tremendous achievements including the first G.hn products to hit the global market. In April 2015, member Comtrend brought the first G.hn Adapter (PG-9172 G.hn Powerline Adapter) to the retail market and in September 2015 the first G.hn products became available to purchase online in China through Alibaba and Taobao.

2015 also saw many ‘world first’ live demonstrations , including G.hn certified devices being shown for the first time at the CableLabs Summer Conference, the first G.hn Wave-2 public demonstration of 2 Gigabits per second for carriers, and the first live demonstration of G.hn performance using Broadband Forum’s standardized test plan, TR-208. In May 2016, member ARRIS brought the first G.hn router to the retail market through Amazon and Best Buy.

The two-year period saw 26 products achieve certification from a total of 11 vendors and for different types of medium, including powerline, coax and phoneline. There were various types of design such as wall mounted and desktop devices to extend wireless reach, as well as integrated home networking router designs.