22-09-2008, 10:20 AM
Home Networking is the collection of elements that process, manage, transport, and store information, enabling the connection and integration of multiple computing, control, monitoring, and communication devices in the home. The price of home computers keep falling, while the advantages for consumers from being connected online investing and shopping, keeping in touch with long distance friends and tapping the vast resource of the Internet CE keep multiplying. No wonder an increasing number of households own two or more PCs.Until recently, the home network has been largely ignored. However, the rapid proliferation of personal computers (PCs) and the Internet in homes, advancements in telecommunications technology, and progress in the development of smart devices have increasingly emphasized the need for an in home networking. Furthermore, as these growth and advancement trends continue, the need for simple, flexible, and reliable home networks will greatly increase.
Overview
The latest advances in the Internet access technologies, the dropping of PC rates, and the proliferation of smart devices in the house, have dramatically increased the number of intelligent devices in the consumer's premises. The consumer electronics equipment manufacturers are building more and more intelligence into their products enabling those devices to be networked into clusters that can be controlled remotely. Advances in the Wireless communication technologies have introduced a variety of wireless devices, like PDAs, Web Pads, into the house. Advent of multiple PCs and smart devices into the house, and the availability of high-speed broadband Internet access, have resulted in in-house networking needs to meet the following
requirements of the consumers:
" Simultaneous internet access to multiple home users
" Sharing of peripherals and files
" Home Control/Automation
" Multi-player Gaming
" Connect to/from the workplace
" Remote Monitoring/Security
" Distributed Video
The home networking requirement introduces into the market a new breed of
products called Residential Gateways. A Residential Gateway (RG) will provide the necessary connectivity features to enable the consumer to exploit the advantages of a networked home. The RG will also provide the framework for Residential Connectivity Based Services to reach the home. Examples of such Residential Connectivity Based Services include: Video on Demand, IP Telephony, Home Security & Surveillance, Remote Home Appliance Repair & Trouble shooting, Utility/Meter Reading, Virtual Private Network Connectivity and Innovative E-commerce solutions.
Using a reusable framework for home service gateway architecture, offers end-to-end product design and realization services for the residential gateways. Coupled with our standards based and ready-to-deploy home networking components & solutions (like the Wipro BlueTooth Stack, IEEE 1394 core, Voice Over Broadband Infrastructure, Embedded TCP/IP Stack etc.), our customers can enjoy the much need time to market advantage and competitive edge.
2. What is Home Networking?
We have all become very comfortable with networks. Local area networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs) have become ubiquitous. The network hierarchy has been rapidly moving lower in the chain towards smaller and more personal devices. These days, Home Area Networks (HANs) and Personal Area Networks (PANs) are joining their larger brother as ever-present communications channels.
Home Networking is the collection of elements that process, manage, transport, and store information, enabling the connection and integration of multiple computing, control, monitoring, and communication devices in the home.
