A VARIETY OF COMPANIES AT THE RECENT TelcoTV show in Orlando unveiled new equipment that eliminates the need for telcos to rewire homes to deliver IPTV services.
 Coaxsys’ IPTV 7000 TVnet adapters. |
 Optical Solutions has unveiled a customer premises unit with a plugin that recreates the benefits of Cat 5 home-networking within the customer premises. It’s based on the home-networking standard known as HPNA v3. |
Coaxsys, for example, demonstrated its recently introduced IPTV 7000 TVnet adapters, which allow existing Category 5 in-home wiring to support IPTV and other triple-play services. That eliminates the requirement of having to hardwire Category 5 cable throughout the home to offer IPTV services, resulting in lower costs and quicker introduction for service providers.
Once a TVnet adapter is connected to the video or broadband source, all other coax jacks in the home become network-enabled. Other TVnet adapters can then be connected to any network-enabled device to provide access to the Internet, share peripherals, or stream high-quality digital audio and video, including multichannel TV and HDTV signals.
TVnet can be integrated into set-top boxes and residential gateways.
The company is now shipping adapters to operators, as well as seeking relationships with equipment providers for the integration of TVnet technology into their products.
In separate news, Entone has launched a product that also addresses the Cat 5 rewiring issue. Entone’s new Hydra IP video gateway, also launched at TelcoTV, can help telcos realize lower installation costs by eliminating the need to rewire homes for IPTV.
Meanwhile, Optical Solutions, an early player in the FTTP equipment market, at TelcoTV unveiled a customer premises unit with a plug-in that recreates the benefits of Cat 5 home-networking within the customer premises. It’s based on the home-networking standard known as HPNA v3. With this module, existing in-home wiring is “turbocharged” to accommodate the bandwidth demands of FTTP for IPTV and data, according to the company.
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| Coaxsys www.coaxsys.com Entone www.entone.com Optical Solutions Inc. www.opticalsolutions.com |
