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April 29, 2008
New Home Networking Forum
By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor
Infineon Technologies, Intel Corporation, Panasonic (News - Alert) and Texas Instruments are going to try and create a single, global standard for connecting virtually all in-home devices handling digital content, such as movies, music and pictures, using home wiring
The forum is a companion to the International Telecommunication Union's ITU-T G.hn working group, which is working to create a single MAC
and PHY protocol for transporting multimedia across a home's existing wiring to include coaxial cable, power lines and phone lines.
and PHY protocol for transporting multimedia across a home's existing wiring to include coaxial cable, power lines and phone lines. From a chip level perspective, the advantages of a single global standard are obvious: it provides the scale required to create a big business.
"The forum will promote HomeGrid-certified products and ensure interoperability," says Matthew Theall, president of HomeGrid Forum.
HomeGrid Forum has 11 founding members including Infineon, Intel (News - Alert), Panasonic and Texas Instruments, Aware Inc., DS2, Gigle Semiconductor and Pulse~LINK, Ikanos Communications, Inc., Sigma Designs and Westell.
Gary Kim (News - Alert) is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Gary’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
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