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Home Networking
Interactive Workshop
Sandy Teger and David Waks
Co-Founders, Broadband Home Central
CTAM Summit 2007
July 25, 2007
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Home Networking Today: Separate “Islands”
“Data” Island
Video Island
MSO
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Everything Changing Simultaneously
• Many sources of video in the home
• New home networking technologies
• Microsoft and Intel promoting PC for video
• HD screens getting prevalent and cheap
• PVRs and multi-room PVRs
• Digital media adapters: Xbox 360, AppleTV, …
• Portable video devices: iPod, GigaBeat, …
• Local media transfer: iTunes, Rhapsody, EchoStar, …
• Remote media transfer: SlingBox, Orb Networks, …
• Networked digital TVs
• Mobile phones as part of network – transfer pictures, videos,
music to/from them
• Digital transition
• CableCards in innovative devices (OCUR, BOCR)
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Where’s the Cable Box In This Picture?
YouTube
iTunes
Movielink
ABC
Disney
Amazon
Unbox
Comcast
Fancast
Apple TV
Xbox 360
Slingbox
Digital Camera and
Camcorder
PVR functionality
DVD/Blu-ray
Premium cable
content (OCUR
CableCard)
Media Server
Portable Media Players
Mobile Phones
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Unified Home Network
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Many Sources of Video in the Home
• Subscription video: cable, satellite, telco
• Packaged media: DVD, HD DVD, BluRay
• Personally created: SD  HD
• Internet video
– User-generated content: YouTube, …
– Movie subscription/purchase services: Movielink, Starz Vongo,
CinemaNow, Xbox Live, Amazon Unbox, iTunes, …
– Content provider “bypass”: CBS, ABC, Disney, …
– Internet video services: Babelgum, Joost, Veoh, …
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New Home Networking Technologies
• Many new technologies entering the market simultaneously
– Ethernet: 100 Mbps  Gigabits per second
– 802.11n – next generation of Wi-Fi – over the air
– MoCA – over coax
– HomePNA – over coax and phone line
– HomePlug AV – over power line
– UPA / Opera – over power line
– HD PLC – over power line
– UWB – over coax, power line or the air (“Wireless USB”)
• All suitable for multi-channel high-definition video
– Performance claims need to be verified
• New standards for network interoperability
– DLNA and Microsoft Rally for consumer networks
– HANA for service providers
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Some Targeted to Video Service Providers
• MoCA, HomePNA 3, UWB over coax
• Focus is multi-room DVR
– AT&T U-verse: HomePNA 3.1 embedded in Motorola VIP1200 series boxes
– Verizon FIOS: MoCA embedded in Motorola QIP series boxes
– MSOs: MoCA embedded in Motorola multi-room DVR
• All keep video separate from data
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Other Targeted To Consumers
• 802.11n Wi-Fi
• New powerline technologies: HomePlug AV, UPA, HD PLC
• Wireless USB and most other UWB technologies
• Built into PCs and networked devices including AV products
• All designed to facilitate unified home network
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PC As Home Media Center
• Suppliers repositioning PC
– Windows Vista includes Media Center
– Microsoft Rally optimizes home network for media applications
– Intel VIIV
– AMD Live!
• PC stores consumer “memories”: pictures and home video
• Video input from cable and satellite
– Tuner card bundled with Media Center PCs
– CableCard (OCUR, BOCR) enables premium content with DRM
protection for content providers
• Customers want to watch video on new HD screens
• Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standardizes media
networking between PCs, digital media adapters, networked
TVs, portable media players, mobile phones
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Some Questions To Start The Discussion
• How will video get to the HD screen?
– Internet
– Consumer PCs
– Portable video devices
• What role will cable set tops play in a unified home network?
• Will cable provide the primary user interface for video?
• What about OCAP?
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