Smart Home (connected home, home networking) News

CopperGate Ships over 2 Million HomePNA 3.1 Chipsets
Oct 23, 2007 – At TelcoTV, CopperGate Communications, the leading provider of home networking technology for triple play IPTV over existing home wiring, announced that it has shipped over 2 Million HomePNA 3.1 CopperStream chipsets to OEM customers worldwide.
News categories: CopperGate Communications, HomePNA, Digital TV, Gateway, IPTV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

AMIMON Chooses the MIPS32® M4K® Core for Wireless High Definition Multimedia Applications
Oct 22, 2007 – MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS) has announced that AMIMON has licensed the low-power MIPS32® M4K® core for development of wireless HD audio and video transfer applications.
News categories: MIPS Technologies, AMIMON, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart Home

IBM and MediaTek to Bring Wireless High Definition TV and Movies to Consumers
Oct 22, 2007 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and MediaTek have launched a joint initiative to develop ultra fast chipsets that can wirelessly transmit a full-length high definition movie to and from a home PC, hand-held device, retail kiosk or television set nearly as fast as a viewer can push their remote control.
News categories: IBM, MediaTek, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Networked Entertainment Device Shipments to Exceed Core Home Network Hardware by 2011
Oct 18, 2007 – Many broadband consumers in developed economies have already installed home network hardware to share the Internet among their PCs. However the large majority of consumers today have yet to connect a non-PC device to their network.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Gateway, Market Research, Router, Smart Home

DS2 Introduces 400Mbps Powerline Communications Technology
Oct 18, 2007 – DS2 has announced that it has developed technology that will allow next generation powerline products to operate at a peak data rate of 400Mbps.
News categories: DS2, Digital TV, IPTV, Smart Home

CopperGate to Exhibit at TelcoTV 2007 Conference and Expo
Oct 16, 2007 – CopperGate Communications has announced that it will be demonstrating its innovative HomePNA 3.1 based multimedia home networking solutions for IPTV distribution in the home at the TelcoTV 2007 Conference and Expo, in booth 226.
News categories: CopperGate Communications, IPTV, Smart Home

Powerline home net camps mount urgent bid for unity
Oct 15, 2007 – Opposing camps in powerline home networking will face off at an IEEE meeting in Boston this week over the path toward a unified standard.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA

Comtrend delivers 590,000 PLC solutions for Europe in 2007
Oct 9, 2007 – Comtrend Corporation has announced the delivery of 590,000 200-Mbps PLC Ethernet adapters, the PowerGrid DH-10PF, by the end of 2007.
News categories: Comtrend, DS2, BBWF, Europe, Portugal, Smart Home, Spain, UK

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