The casino is in a heritage-listed building and it was prohibited from installing new network cabling for its plasma television network.But with BPL, the IP network runs through the building's existing power cabling to each television set.

Gavin De Livera, strategic business development manager of Scheider Electric's iLevo BPL business unit, which managed the project, said BPL is being applied for a number of point-to-point communications requirements where Ethernet doesn't reach.

BPL has also been applied to replace a microwave link at the Goonyella coal mine in central Queensland, he said.

"It needed point-to-point communications on a conveyer system where it had been using microwave system, but when it had to be moved was costing thousands of dollars every time," he said.

At the casino the BPL network is used to carry voice and data, and De Livera said the technology can deliver applications just like any other 200Mbps IP network.