Non-profit trade group the HomeGrid Forum has announced that Chinese chip vendor Xingtera has become the first certified silicon vendor of G.hn chipsets in China. Xingtera’s XT18000 chipset will support the G.hn home networking standard, allowing for cable network speeds of up to 1 Gbps. It says G.hn is China’s most “accepted” smart home wireline home network technology. The European Aviation Network (EAN) says it has successfully carried out a program lab test to deliver an in-flight broadband video conference. The EAN, fronted by Inmarsat, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and Thales, claims this is the first live over-the-air (OTA) connection of its type, using its dedicated LTE mobile network – a network which can work at speeds of up to 1,200…