Broadband power line communication systems for transferring broadband data over electrical power lines, comprised of computer hardware, software and modems; Cards with integrated circuits; Circuit boards; Circuit boards provided with integrated circuits; Computer firmware for and hardware for enabling video, audio, and data distribution from personal video recorders, picture-in-picture, DVD players, televisions, handheld devices, namely, personal digital assistants, cellular phones and web pads; Computer firmware for use in the encryption and decryption of digital files, including audio, video, text, binary, still images, graphics and multimedia files; Computer firmware for audio and video manipulation; Computer firmware that assists computers in deploying parallel applications and performing parallel computations; Computer hardware and software systems for broadband network communications between consumer electronic devices; Computer hardware for telecommunications; Encoding and decoding apparatus; Integrated circuits; Integrated circuits and integrated circuit cores for use in wireless communications and wireless communication equipment and apparati and digital signal processors (DSP); Integrated circuits, integrated circuit chips, and integrated circuit modules for digital video compression and decompression; Integrated circuits, integrated circuit chips, and integrated circuit modules for encoding and decoding digital video; Semiconductor chips; Semiconductors; Telecommunications and data networking hardware, namely, devices for transporting and aggregating voice, data, and video communications across multiple network infrastructures and communications protocols