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The Standard for Home
Entertainment Networks
Overview
The Organization
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Established in January 2004 by some of the most respected, brand name,
consumer broadband service providers and OEMs in the world.
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Use existing coaxial cabling—installed in 90% of U.S. households
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No new wires, truck rolls or interference with other technologies and mediums.
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Published field tests: More than 110 Mpbs net throughput in 97% of all outlets.
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Complementary to wireless—extends wireless backbone in home.
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More than 50 members, and counting. Membership is OPEN.
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More than 20 certified products (STBs, ONTs, gateways, home routers, ECBs)
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Recently established Contributor-level membership.
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Only wired home entertainment networking standard in full deployment
(Verizon’s FiOS).
Paradigm Shift in Consumer Electronics
Explosion
of content
Storage
Analog to digital
conversion
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Applications 
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Service provider
Triple-play bundling
(IPTV/TelcoTV,
Cable MSOs)
Networking 
Mass market deployment
of DVR and HDTV
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The Connected Home
According to Parks Associates’ report, “Networks in the Home:
Connected Consumer Electronics” (2006):
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An entertainment network is a PC connected to at least
one consumer electronic (CE) device, or multiple
interconnected CE devices such as a whole-house DVR
system.
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There will be 30 million U.S. households with a
connected entertainment network by 2010.
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Connected entertainment will be the heart of the
development and business opportunities in the digital
home, and will be driven by video service providers
(telco, cable and DBS) and CE and home networking
manufacturers.
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Growth of Entertainment Networks
Forecast of U.S. Connected Entertainment Households
35
30
Millions of Households
25
29.9
20
22.2
15
15.3
10
5
8.7
4.0
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Source: Networks in the Home: Connected Consumer Electronics
© 2006 Parks Associates
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30
45
DVR STB Shipped Annually (#M)
25
40
Cumulative DVR STB in US Households
35
20
30
25
15
20
10
15
10
5
5
0
Cumulative Multi-room DVR STB Shipped (#M)
Multi-room DVR Set-Top Boxes Shipped, Annually (#M)
Multi-room DVR STBs (U.S.)
0
2005p
2006p
2007p
2008p
2009p
© 2005 Parks Associates
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Oil And Water Do Not Mix
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Until now, all LAN technologies were designed for
data. Companies are trying to “shoehorn” them
into home entertainment networking applications.
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But, video behaves differently over different
mediums.
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And all competing wired (and some wireless)
standards/technologies are also specifying coax
for video.
Square Peg, Round Hole Scenario
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Membership
Promoters
Contributors
Membership
Summary
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Coax is the medium for video. Installed in 90% of U.S. households.
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MoCA is the standard for home entertainment networks over coax.
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Benefits appeal to service providers and consumers equally.
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Independently validated net throughputs. Reality not theory.
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Growing membership.
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Deep and wide portfolio of certified products
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In full deployment
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RAND licensing environment
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Roadmap to retail channel and end consumer.
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Consumers will tolerate a dropped cell phone call, but they will not tolerate
latency in their video.
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MoCA Is In The HOUSE!
WAN
Point Of Entry
NORMAL
2-WAY CATV
PATH
3:1 Splitter
Node
Device
3:1 Splitter
SPLITTER
JUMPING
2:1 Splitter
SPLITTER
JUMPING
Node
Device
Node
Device
Node
Device
Node
Device
Node
Device
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