Home Networking: Wired vs. WiFi
According to ABI Research, despite the popularity of WiFi for home networking, wired solutions remain strong, especially for multiroom DVRs. MoCA has become the go-to wired technology for most cable...
View ArticleLiberty Expands its Horizons
Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has launched Horizon TV (first announced at last year’s IBC) with UPC Netherlands, and it’s planned to be rolled out in Switzerland, Germany and Ireland...
View ArticleNAGRA Releases Gateway Ref Design
NAGRA announced the availability of a reference platform for gateways and other media streaming devices. NAGRA HomeCruise is intended to provide set-top box and device partners with an “off the shelf”...
View ArticleDVRs: Glorified VCRs or the Key to Home Networks?
It’s an accepted fact that digital video recording (DVR) functionality is an important service for cable operators. The question the industry will be facing during the next couple of years is precisely...
View ArticleCable and WiFi: A Beautiful Friendship
Fans of old movies certainly remember the fade out of Casablanca, in which Captain Renault suggests to Rick Blaine that they are at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. That’s about what cable...
View ArticleComcast Touts Speedy WiFi Gateway
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) is pairing high-speed Internet with high-speed in-home WiFi with its latest Xfinity Wireless Gateway. The second-generation device is designed for approximately 155 Mbps of...
View ArticleMoCA Drives Home Networking Growth
According to Infonetics Research, MoCA is expected to become the de facto wired technology for video distribution in the home, largely driven by multiscreen video. The research house says MoCA home...
View ArticleThe Great MoCA and WiFi Partnership
The future of in-home video networking in North America for all service providers – not just cable operators – will be dominated by a combination of coax cable and WiFi, with other approaches, such as...
View ArticleIntel Gets a Seat on MoCA Board
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has upgraded its membership in the Multimedia over Coax Alliance from Contributor to Promoter. Jim Crammond, CTO of gateway solutions within Intel’s service provider division, will...
View ArticleSuddenlink Expands TiVo Streaming
Starting last week, Suddenlink expanded the availability of the TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) Stream service, which allows customers to stream TV shows around the house wirelessly on iPod Touch, iPads and...
View ArticleEntropic, Cortina Develop Gateway Ref Platform
Entropic Communications (NASDAQ:ENTR) and Cortina Systems announced their joint collaboration on a reference design for broadband routers and headless gateways. The reference design is intended to help...
View ArticleTechnicolor Software Bridges Devices
At CES in Las Vegas, Technicolor (Euronext Paris:TCH) announced the release of Qeo, a software framework intended to allow interoperability between devices and applications of all brands and...
View ArticlePace/Broadcom D3 Gateway Uses Comcast RDK
Pace (LSE:PIC) and Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) announced the development of a Media Server Gateway that uses the XG5 product specification and Reference Design Kit (RDK) software developed by Comcast...
View ArticleBeefing Up WiFi
The next-gen WiFi standard, 802.11ac carries the punch needed to fulfill the wireless promise of helping cable operators bolster reach, flexibility and fluidity of viewing among devices inside a...
View ArticleTech Support an Opportunity for Service Providers
According to Parks Associates, the do-it-yourself model of tech support is the dominant, but not preferred, method for consumers setting up new connected or mobile devices, suggesting an opportunity...
View Article25 Million MoCA Households in 2014
According to ABI Research, the first significant shipments of the HomePlug AV2 and MoCA 2.0 standards will be seen in 2013, offering higher speeds as well as more robustness under different line...
View ArticleWiFi Key to the Smart Home of the Future
As operators continue to transition to all-IP, with the vision of a highway for driving myriad services into the home, WiFi eventually will become the backbone of the home network and the preferred way...
View ArticleCable’s Home Automation Initiatives Mature
It’s an accepted reality that the cable industry is sitting on a gold mine in home automation, which includes subgroups such as security, energy management, home health care and a variety of other...
View ArticleIs 802.11ad the Ultimate Cable Replacement?
At the Consumer Electronics Show early last month in Las Vegas, a very unglamorous announcement was made by the IEEE: The organization officially signed off on the 802.11ad standard. Though making...
View Article95% of Broadband Homes to be Networked in 2016
According to Parks Associates, 78% of U.S. broadband households had a home network router in 2012, up from 54% in 2009, with adoption expected to reach 95% by 2016. The research firm notes consumer...
View ArticleFreedomPop Goes Live
FreedomPop, which offers free wireless high-speed Internet service, announced the public availability of its new Burst router for home or small office environments. The $89 wireless modem router is...
View ArticleBroadpeak Baked into Wireless Routers
Broadpeak announced a new collaboration with AirTies Wireless Networks, a supplier of wireless home networking and set-top box solutions. Broadpeak’s nanoCDN technology has been pre-integrated on...
View ArticleHalf-Billion Connected Devices
According to the NPD Group, there are now more than half a billion devices in U.S. homes that are connected to the Internet and deliver apps. Increases in tablet and smartphone penetration drove the...
View ArticleGateway to Cable Operators’ Future
Multimedia home gateways are not only gateways to consumer electronics devices in subscribers’ houses and apartments. They also are the gateways to increased revenues and, to a great extent, the cable...
View ArticleACCESS, Verimatrix Team on Secure Media Sharing
ACCESS and Verimatrix have worked together to produce a new product, Verimatrix Gateway, which is designed to integrate ACCESS’ NetFront Living Connect DLNA technology with Verimatrix’ security to...
View ArticleThe End of Inside Wiring?
Here’s a fun idea: What if we could do away with all the cabling in the customer’s house? Inside wiring has long been a pain in cable operators’ collective necks. It consumes lots of installer time, is...
View ArticleIPv6, Home Networking Increasingly Intertwined
IPv6 and advanced home networking are perceived as occupying two sides of the cable industry’s to-do list: The new addressing scheme is a chore that has to be done to maintain the health of operators’...
View Article78% of Broadband Homes Networked
According to Parks Associates, 78% of U.S. broadband households have a home network, which is expected to increase to 95% by 2016, with an average of 4.5 connected devices. The research house believes...
View ArticleHome Networks Increasingly Video-Centric
According to TDG, home network diffusion among U.S. broadband households has reached 84%, up from 81% in 2011. The research house also notes that router placement and network-related behavior is...
View ArticlePoll: Home Sweet Networked Home
We’re hearing that home networks are increasingly being used for streaming media rather than data applications. Does that agree with your experience? Where’s the bandwidth being used? Go to the poll on...
View ArticleHomeGrid, HomePNA Merge
The HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance have merged to create a single organization focused on promoting advanced wired home networking technologies. The combined organization, under the HomeGrid...
View ArticleNo-New-Wire Nets to Quadruple by 2017
According to IMS Research, the installed base of home networks using no-new-wire technologies is projected to grow by almost 300% within the next five years, spurred by growth in IP and multiroom video...
View ArticleMoCA Drives Home Networking Market
According to Infonetics Research, MoCA is driving growth in the home networking device market, particularly shipments of video gateways in North America. Sales of set-top boxes with embedded MoCA...
View ArticleTWC Smart Home Slated for OH, WI, NYC
Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) plans to launch its home management and security system, IntelligentHome, throughout its Ohio and Wisconsin service areas in June, followed by New York City this fall. The...
View ArticleQuantenna WiFi Gets Intel Ref Design Support
Quantenna Communications‘ 4×4 802.11ac WiFi solutions are now supported by Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Puma 6 reference designs. The WiFi aWave 2 MU-MIMO chipsets are designed for wireless streaming of...
View ArticleIntraway to Buy Home Networking Outfit
OSS/BSS provider Intraway announced an agreement to acquire Baking Software, a company specializing in home networking software. The acquisition is intended to strengthen Intraway’s position in the OSS...
View ArticleBuilding Intelligence into Home Networks
The number of devices connected to a home network is growing, and with it the number of technologies supported by the network. Within this complex web, consumers want optimal performance and low power...
View ArticleWiFi: 86% of Household Data in 2017
According to iGR, as much as 86% of in-home broadband data use will be over WiFi in 2017. The research house is basing its estimates on four different usage categories (Light, Medium, Heavy and...
View ArticleHome Nets: One Standard to Bind Them
The IEEE has published IEEE 1905.1-2013, “Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies.” The standard is intended to provide a common interface to augment and unify...
View ArticleNAGRA Intros Connected Home Solution
NAGRA has introduced JoinIn for the connected home. An implementation of the JoinIn reference architecture will be demonstrated at IBC. JoinIn is intended to enable home gateway content streaming to...
View ArticleMultiscreen Video Dominates Home Networking
According to Infonetics Research, the home networking industry is increasingly focused on multiscreen video. In a statement, Infonetics analyst Jeff Heynen said, in part: “Operators in North America...
View ArticleVideotron Aims to Optimize Home WiFi
Videotron is launching a WiFi optimization service. The installation and support service is available to all Videotron Internet access customers. A specially trained WiFi technician visits the...
View ArticleEntone Aims to Simplify Whole-Home Video
Entone has introduced its EnterLink video networking solution. It’s intended to eliminate the need for new wires and set-top boxes in consumers’ homes. The solution is designed for whole-home...
View ArticleMoCA 2.0 Cert Program Available
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance Certification Program for products implementing the MoCA 2.0 specification is now available to all members. Upon passage of certification, companies receive a...
View ArticleThe Promising, Evolving World of Home Automation
The home networking/home automation segment beckons as one of the most promising of the many potentially lucrative opportunities that the industry is assessing as 2014 dawns. The attraction of home...
View ArticleCable Ops Ready for DLNA’s Next Stage
The emergence of multiscreen video and a boatload of new competitors have complicated the lives of cable operators in many ways. High on that list is the difficulty of ferrying signals to devices...
View ArticleDLNA Releases Multiscreen Device Guide
The Digital Living Network Alliance has released its CVP-2 Guidelines and announced that DLNA Members can begin certifying products to the specifications in September. The guidelines are intended to...
View ArticleNETGEAR Intros DOCSIS 3.0 Gateway
NETGEAR (NASDAQGM:NTGR) has introduced the NETGEAR DOCSIS 3.0 AC1900 Voice and Data Cable Gateway (C7000B). The C7000B is designed for WiFi speeds up to 1900 (600+1300) Mbps and DOCSIS speeds of up to...
View ArticleThe Increasingly Connected Home
According to Parks Associates, 75% of U.S. homes have broadband, and more than 80% of those households have a home network. More than 60% own connected consumer electronics devices, including more than...
View ArticleDirecTV Debuts Wireless Set-Tops
DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV) is rolling out a wireless set-top, dubbed the Wireless Genie Mini (WGM), across its national footprint. A WGM is hooked up to each TV set in the home and communicates wirelessly...
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