While eyes were on the reskinned Broadband World Forum last week – merging with 5G World and Telco Cloud trade fairs to form Network X – another event was happening under cover of darkness aiming to demonstrate the continued importance of G.hn, the forgotten broadband access technology. A question raised numerous times in recent years, since the G.hn standard was approved back in 2009, is whether there is sufficient demand for G.hn in a fiber future? The Broadband Forum (BBF) and HomeGrid Forum (HGF) certainly seem to think so. The two industry standards groups broke bread at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory last week, for what was dubbed the first ever pre-certification plugfest for G.hn. The beauty of…