Paris, October 8, 2012 - The G3-PLC Alliance announced the interoperability process for the PHY layer is completely

defined. A first implementation of the process led to a final plug fest where 5 implementations – from Freescale, Maxim,
Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments - were shown to be successfully interoperable. Jean Vigneron,
General Secretary, is excited to announce that the interoperability process for the PHY layer is open to G3-PLC Alliance
members, new implementers of the G3-PLC protocol.