Pannaway Technologies this week at GLOBALCOMM is debuting new customer premises equipment that speaks the language of HomePNA.
The CPE will support the HomePNA 3/ITU G.9954 standard, a technology that has “the potential to significantly reduce a telco’s operational expenses while enabling them to accelerate the deployment of multimedia broadband services – especially IPTV,” said Nicole Klein, an analyst with Yankee Group, in a statement for Pannaway.
HomePNA stands for Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, a non-profit group of 150 or so companies trying to get computer folks, phone companies and communication vendors to agree on standards to boost networking to and in the home.
The new Residential Gateway NID, known as the RGN-520, enables providers to deliver over coax cable such popular services as video on demand, digital video recorder and IPTV. Like its predecessor, the RGN-510, the CPE can be provisioned and managed remotely by deploying the Broadband Access Manager. First-generation products also can be upgraded to support the HomePNA feature, Pannaway said.
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