Technology

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Technology

IPTV White Paper
A traditional service provider, whether it is a telco, cable MSO or satellite (DBS) company, is no longer bounded by its core segment or original purpose. These service providers are quickly morphing into comprehensive purveyors of Triple and Quad Play services for telephony (landline and cellular), Internet access and video and digital television. As Charles Hall of Rider Research and publisher of the Online Reporter has suggested recently, the term digital service provider perhaps more accurately reflects this evolutionary process.

PQoS – Parameterized Quality of Service
The essential promise of MoCA — no new wires, no service calls and no interference with other networks or consumer electronic devices — remains intact with each upgrade to the standard.

Cable and Satellite Digital Entertainment Networks
Traditional broadcast TV viewing models are eroding as consumers embrace new content consumption technologies. Driven by DVRs, high-definition content, and the emergence of multiple HDTVs per household, cable MSOs and satellite operators are moving to deploy robust digital entertainment networks to enable distribution of content within the home.

Telco TV Home Networking Technology and Market Outlook
As telecommunications companies continue to roll out IPTV as part of their Triple-Play offerings, deploying the right advanced home networking technologies is becoming an increasingly vital part of each operator’s strategy. When implemented correctly, with an eye towards future service sets and applications, operators have an opportunity to protect their investments by deploying home networking technologies that will allow expansion of services in the future.

Wired and Wireless Networks in the Home
For most people today, home networking simply means sharing Internet access or printers throughout a home on several computers. For early adopters, home networking can be a critical path to share advanced IP services across multiple home devices such as consumer electronics, set-top boxes, computers, game boxes and other peripherals.

Home Entertainment Over Coax 2006
Home networking of multimedia, and particularly of video, is covered, including usage models, system requirements, installation and maintenance, security, and comparison of the various in-home mediums.

Home Networking of Digital Entertainment Without Compromise
An open, industry driven initiative, promoting distribution of digital video and entertainment through existing coaxial cable in the home.

Texas Instruments: Next Generation Residential Gateways
Increasingly, homes are being populated with a divergent array of digital devices, multimedia applications, networked appliances, voice and data communications platforms, entertainment systems and much more. All the while consumers are acquiring more and more digital content, that often enters the home through broadband access to the Internet, is subsequently moved and shared among the devices in the home, and eventually may be transferred outside the home via the Internet or by loading it onto a portable consumer device.

Creating the Connected Home: The Debate over Home Networking Standards
Home Networking at a Crossroads: The rise of triple play services in general, and IP-based video in particular, has rekindled the debate over the best way to create the connected digital home.

Multimedia over Coax Alliance Field Test Report Executive Summary
MoCA® performed field trials in 246 homes across the USA and successfully validated that the technology for its initial specification meets and exceeds the MoCA requirements for multimedia home networking. Each of the eight members of MoCA - Comcast, Echostar, Entropic Communications, Linksys, Motorola, Panasonic, Radio Shack, and Toshiba - performed testing in their respective areas resulting in tests of homes in more than 120 zip codes.

Consumer Technology: Key Trends and Outlook for 2008, A Parks Associates White Paper
The manner by which consumers create and share personal and commercial content, enjoy a variety of programming and entertainment applications, communicate, and enhance productivity at home and on-the-go is evolving as digital technologies become more mainstream. As 2008 looms, there is very solid activity and very real potential among multiple players in services delivery, software development, and platform design to address the increasing consumer appetite for lifestyle enhancement solutions and productivity applications — from broadband to portable music and emerging television services — among many categories.

The Use of Ethernet-Over-Coax in HFC Networks
The growing use of IP technology to deliver audio, video and data to subscribers often faces a simple problem. The physical connection to the IP network is often not available at the site where the equipment associated with these new services is located. For example, a DSL modem is typically located at a telephone outlet that is not close to the TV, and a cable modem is connected to an RF wall outlet that is usually not close to the home office or computer.

ZigBee Wireless Sensor Applications for Health, Wellness and Fitness
New Assistive Technologies in Health Care based on widely accepted standards, like ZigBee, will play an important role in slowing down the sharp increase of health costs. Medical devices based on the ZigBee standard facilitate the reduction of costs associated with the development and manufacturing of new medical devices.

ZigBee and Wireless Radio Frequency Coexistence
ZigBee is seeing broad adoption by industries which demand products based on standards that deliver long-term stability and feature a solid and competitive supply chain.

ZigBee: The Choice for Energy Management and Efficiency
ZigBee's wireless open standard technology is being selected around the world as the energy management and efficiency technology of choice. ZigBee Home Area Networks bring smart grid programs directly to consumers homes. 

ZigBee Enables Smart Buildings of the Future Today
ZigBee wireless technology creates new possibilities and transforms the office environment into truly effective workspaces.

ZigBee Vision for the Home
Overview of ZigBee Applications in the Residential Market

ZigBee Technology: Wireless Control that Simply Works
by Patrick Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC / Chair of IEEE 802.15.4 Task Group

Zigbee: "Wireless Control That Simply Works"
by William C. Craig Program Manager Wireless Communications, ZMD America, Inc.