BEAVERTON, OR--(Marketwire - Jun 7, 2011) - In a win for the wired home networking industry, four G.hn chipset manufacturers converged in Geneva, Switzerland for the world's first open G.hn Interoperability Plugfest. A joint effort of HomeGrid Forum and the Broadband Forum hosted at the ITU-T's global headquarters and organized by University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), the event presented the first open opportunity for silicon vendors to test the interoperability of their products, based on the G.hn home networking standard, which will be globally deployed by many service providers, PC manufacturers, appliance manufacturers and consumer electronics companies.