DALLAS - In its continued drive to become the open control platform of choice in the home and office, the AMX Corporation (Nasdaq: AMXX) and its PHAST subsidiary have become the most recent members in the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance. Known as HomePNA, the group is an association of industry-leading companies working together to ensure adoption of a single, unified phone line networking standard and rapidly bring to market a range of interoperable home networking solutions.

"Joining industry giants AMD, Tut Systems, IBM, and many others in the effort to deliver easy-to-use and affordable networking solutions once again gives the AMX consumer choices when it comes to information, entertainment, and control in the home," stated Dave Hill, VP of residential technology for AMX. "With our PHASTLan™ and PHASTCast™ data traveling over existing phone wires in the home, our products become much more acceptable to the existing home marketplace, which in the past has been a minor part of our dealers’ business."

Recently, AMX announced the plans for an Internet Appliance division, which will also benefit from the Home Networking Alliance as it provides low-cost solutions for the delivery of Internet content in the home. AMX General Manager Residential Business Tom Hite comments, "It’s not possible to stand alone in this marketplace and grow at the rate the Internet demands. Our association with the Home Networking Alliance is just one more way for us to express our desire to partner with the companies who are shaping the future of the network in the home."