IN-HOME NETWORKING
How to connect all the multimedia devices inside the home?
Home networking has strongly evolved along the last years.
People’s primary reason to own a home network was sharing an Internet connection, a printer, or files between several computers. In short, these were data-centric applications.
But today the home multimedia network, on top of data, must support multiple and simultaneous HDTV and SDTV streams, audio, VoIP, gaming…
How to connect all HDTVs, digital set-top boxes, PVR, NAS, consoles for video games together?
Install new wires? Go wireless?
Cabling a home with RJ45 cables is tricky and costly, even if one does it itself (cost of cables, equipment to buy like switches, time spent).
Furthermore, there is no flexibility as the outlets are fixed and if the user moves, he will have to leave the network behind him.
Wireless technology, in theory, could be the ideal solution. However, reality is different as end-user experience can suffer from flickering images or interruptions in the streaming because of concrete walls, too big distance, interference and so on.
Use existing electrical wires!
Using electrical wires is the most blatant, easy, effective and cost competitive solution to connect all the home multimedia devices together.
It offers numerous benefits, among them:
- The electrical infrastructure is always there (contrary to coaxial cables for example), so there is no need to install new cables,
- There are several electrical sockets in every room, compared to one or two phone sockets per household and two to three coax outlets,
- Flexibility: the end-user can move its devices inside a room or from room to room, he is not limited by the location of an outlet.
Use SPiDCOM HomePlug AV solution over existing electrical wires!
SPiDCOM has developed a HomePlug AV compatible SoC that is best adapted to connect all the multimedia devices inside a home:
- It has plenty of bandwidth available for several HDTV and SDTV streams,
- Ping is low enough to enable video gaming,
- It is plug and play, as one just needs to connect the device to a SPiDCOM based HomePlug AV modem and it is connected,
- It is based on HomePlug AV standard, backed by the strongest worldwide PLC alliance with more than 80 members.