Home networking standards The HomePNA Alliance formerly the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, also ... homes. Overview HomePNA does not manufacture products, although its members do. It develops technology ... s member products page as HomePNA certified. HomePNA promoter companies are AT&T , Pace plc ... , Sunrise Telecom and K Micro . ref name members HomePNA creates industry specifications which it then standardizes under the International Telecommunication Union ITU standards body. HomePNA also promotes the technology, tests, and certifies member products as HomePNA compliant. Devices that use ... technology that was adopted by HomePNA was developed by several companies. The original HomePNA 1.0 technology was developed by Tut Systems in the 1990s HomePNA 2.0 was developed by Epigram HomePNA 3.0 was developed by Broadcom which had purchased Epigram and Coppergate Communications and HomePNA ... spec download download request.asp publisher HomePNA title Specifications download request ref HomePNA 2.0 was approved by the ITU as Recommendations G.9951, G.9952 and G.9953. HomePNA 3.0 was approved by the ITU as Recommendation G.9954 in February 2005. HomePNA 3.1 was approved by the ITU as Recommendation G.9954 in January 2007. HomePNA 3.1 was developed for entertainment applications such as IPTV ... triple play video, voice and data service offerings. Which? date August 2011 HomePNA 3.1 uses ... with those services on the same wires. The original protocols used balanced pair telephone wire. HomePNA ... of HomePNA 3.1 are No special or new home wiring is required. Existing services Phone , fax , DSL, Satellite or off the air TV viewing are not disrupted since HomePNA operates at different frequencies ... bundled package through HomePNA Certified hardware. The technology works in Multi Dwelling Units MDU ... NW Fusion ref Some disadvantages of HomePNA 3.1 Does not coexist with DOCSIS Available integrated ... 2009, HomePNA announced a Collaboration liaison agreement with the G.hn HomeGrid Forum HomeGrid ... more details
The Rio Receiver was a home stereo device for playing MP3 files stored on your computer s hard drive over an Ethernet or HomePNA network. It was later rebranded and sold as the Dell Digital Audio Receiver. With a design derived from the existing linux based Empeg Car , it became popular among the Linux hacking community. The hardware consisted of a Cirrus Logic 7212 CPU ARM architecture ARM720T at 74 MHz , 1Mx32 4 megabyte MB of EDO RAM , and either 512k 16 or 256k 16 1 MB or 0.5 MB of NOR flash used to boot. Audio output used a Burr Brown PCM1716 Digital to analog converter DAC that drove line outputs, the headphone jack, and a Tripath Switching amplifier class D digital audio amplifier for speakers. Network connections were via either a Cirrus logic 8900A 10MBit Ethernet or a Broadcom HomePNA 10 megabit Mbit s chipset if no Ethernet link was seen at boot time, the unit tried HomePNA. The user interface was a 128x64 pixel monochrome LCD with an Electroluminescence EL backlight , a rotary control with a push button, several buttons and IR remote control . The unit booted via a 2.2 linux kernel in flash which used DHCP and Simple Service Discovery Protocol SSDP to discover an NFS server from which it loaded a new kernel. The second kernel then mounted a root filesystem over NFS containing a small set of standard POSIX tools and an application for selecting and playing music over the network, which was served using HTTP by the Audio Receiver Manager software running on a Windows PC. Although the music player and the Audio Receiver Manager and Broadcom HomePNA kernel driver module were proprietary software, the kernel and other tools were open source. The two step kernel boot process allowed rapid development of changes to the kernel allowing units to run new kernels by simply power cycling them the use of standard protocols meant a variety of replacement software components could be developed independently. External links http www.reza.net rio RRR Project Replacement ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2009 An Intelligent Network Interface Device , more commonly known as an iNID , provides Digital Subscriber Line DSL access and advanced TV to customers subscribed to AT&T AT&T s U verse brand of services. Unlike the traditional Network Interface Device or NID this replaces, an iNID includes an outdoor residential gateway and mounts to the side of the subscriber s home in a hardened, weather resistant enclosure that is easily accessible by carrier technicians. By transferring intelligent gateway functions and all service and network terminations to the side of the house, the iNID eliminates the need to bring DSL into the house, eliminating the signal loss typical of in home wiring. The location at the side of the house also allows for an easy connection between the iNID s integrated VoIP function and the home s existing phone wiring. The outdoor location also provides carrier technicians with easy access to home coaxial cable wiring, which can be reused to distribute high speed LAN technologies to video set top boxes and other networked consumer devices throughout the home using HomePNA . Category Telecommunications terms ... more details
NOTOC PNA or Pna has a variety of meanings Science and Engineering abbreviation for orchid genus Paphinia 4 Nitroaniline chromogenic substrate, also known as para Nitroaniline Parisiensia Nomina Anatomica the revision of anatomic nomenclature. Peanut agglutinin , a lectin specific for Gal 1 3 GalNAc Peptide nucleic acid , an artificially synthesized polymer similar to DNA or RNA. Section modulus Plastic section modulus Plastic neutral axis , an engineering value for plastic material. Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons, more commonly Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon s PAHs Programmable Network analyzer electrical Protected Natural Area Organizations Pakistan National Alliance Palestinian National Authority , an administrative autonomous government in parts of the West Bank Partido Nueva Alianza , the Spanish name for the New Alliance Party Mexico Parties to the Nauru Agreement Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Philippine Nurses Association Polish National Alliance Prefectura Naval Argentina , the Spanish name for the Argentine Naval Prefecture Computing HomePNA , a home computer networking standard Personal Navigation Assistant PNA Health Ingrown nail Nail avulsion Partial Nail Avulsion , a treatment of ingrown toenails. Pneumonia , an infection of the lungs. Other Pacific Northern Airlines Pacific North American teleconnection pattern Pamplona Airport Philippines News Agency Pre Nuptial Agreement , a marriage contract wiktionary PNA disambig de PNA es PNA fa PNA fr PNA it PNA pl PNA ujednoznacznienie ru PNA ... more details
14, 2009 accessdate August 1, 2011 author Dean Takahashi ref CopperGate technologies included HomePNA ... Networking Sigma Designs AV Network products include HomePNA and HomePlug AV products use existing ... HomePNA chipsets. ref cite news url http finance.yahoo.com news Sigma Designs Ships 20 iw 891852372.html title Sigma Designs Ships 20 Million HomePNA Chipsets work news release date November 30, 2010 ... more details
Mike Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur working in the Silicon Valley high tech industry. Mike Farmwald is known for his combination of computer engineering skill and market vision. Mike, who holds a doctorate in Computer Science from Stanford University where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow, has founded six companies to date, five of which were financed in part by Benchmark Capital , where he is a Venture Partner. He has founded these companies FTL 1986 emitter coupled logic ECL supercomputers , merged with MIPS Computer Systems Rambus 1990 high speed interfaces, used in IBM PC compatible PCs and video game console s Chromatic Research 1993 media processors, acquired by ATI Technologies Epigram 1996 inventor of HomePNA , a local area network implemented over Plain old telephone service POTS , acquired by Broadcom Matrix Semiconductor 1997 3D semiconductors Mike is probably best known for cofounding Rambus NASDAQ RMBS , a developer of high bandwidth interfaces for memories and other chips. After founding the company in 1990, Mike served as Vice President and Chief Scientist, overseeing the development of several key innovations, including the 1992 introduction of the world s first 4 Mbit RDRAM. Mike also invests directly in startups through Skymoon Ventures . His recent investments include technology companies incubated at Skymoon R&D Dash , whose navigation systems bring internet to the car, and Finesse Solutions , a measurement and control provider to the biotechnology industry as well as companies that bring technology to traditional business Remote Lands , a luxury bespoke Asian travel outfitter started by entrepreneur Catherine Heald and ICE , a fitness concept company started by award winning cheerleading coach Darlene Fanning . He has also publicly criticized and shorted the stock of technology companies he believes are defrauding investors by misrepresenting their technology. In 2005 he shorted ParkerVision , a RF semiconductor IP company, and cre ... more details
HomeRF was a wireless networking specification for home devices. It was developed in 1998 by the HomeRF Working Group, a consortium of mobile wireless companies that included Proxim Wireless , Siemens AG Siemens , Motorola , Philips ref cite web title HomeRF Archives author Wayne Caswell date November 17, 2010 url http www.cazitech.com HomeRF Archives.htm accessdate July 16, 2011 ref and more than 100 other companies. The group was disbanded in January 2003 after other wireless networks became accessible to home users and Microsoft began including support for them in its Microsoft Windows Windows operating system s. As a result HomeRF has fallen into obsolescence. The archive of the HomeRF Working Group is maintained by Palo Wireless. Description HomeRF used frequency hopping spread spectrum FHSS in the 2.4 GHz frequency band and in theory could achieve a maximum of 10 Mbit s throughput its nodes can travel within a 50 meter range of an wireless access point while remaining connected to the personal area network PAN . HomeRF allowed both voice telephone signals and data signals to be exchanged over the same wireless network. Therefore, in HomeRF, cordless telephones and laptops, for example, could share the same Bandwidth computing bandwidth in the same home or office. Available HomeRF local area network s LANs supported 1.6 Mbit s, relatively slow compared to technology marketed under the Wi Fi brand name. For example, second generation 802.11b LANs supported 11 Mbit s. 802.11n reaches a maximum of 600 Mbit s. Several standards and working groups focused on wireless networking technology in radio frequency Radio frequency RF . Standards include the popular IEEE 802.11 family, 802.16 , and Bluetooth . See also HomePlug powerline home networking HomeIR wireless IR home networking HomePNA phoneline home networking ITU T G.hn , a standard that provides a way to create a high speed up to 1 Gbit s Local area network using existing home wiring Power line communication pow ... more details
, HomePNA , HomeGrid Forum Telephone wires HomePNA , Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line ... or 320 Mbit s see HomePNA Electrical wiring for speeds of 14 Mbit s to 200 Mbit s see Power line communication Phone wiring for speeds of 160 Mbit s see HomePNA Fiber optics although rare, new homes ... more details
LiquidHD technology is an architecture and a set of protocols for networking consumer electronics devices in the home. Created by Silicon Image, Inc. , which also led the development of the HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface standard, it is designed to let consumers link their HDTVs, home theater components, PCs, gaming consoles, and mobile devices into local entertainment networks, where they can view High definition television high definition digital content from any networked source device on any compliant display in the home. The LiquidHD architecture allows network connections to be made via Ethernet , coaxial cable i.e., MoCA or G.hn ref http www.ft.com cms s 0 5a40d558 dd93 11dd 930e 000077b07658.html?nclick check 1 FT New standard for home entertainment networks , provides insights into the complementary relationship between LiquidHD and ITU T G.hn ref , 802.11 wireless, powerline communication i.e., G.hn or other proprietary specifications such as HomePlug , HD PLC or Universal Powerline Association , phone lines HomePNA or G.hn or HDMI , depending on the usage scenario and what connections are already available in the home. Once devices are linked in a LiquidHD network, users can control them via a remote user interface, enabling sharing of source devices and facilitating activities such as pausing a program in one room and resuming it in another. LiquidHD Technology Protocols The LiquidHD technology platform includes the following protocols LiquidDiscover Enables automatic discovery and authentication of LiquidHD enabled devices. LiquidMedia Enables high definition media streaming from live and stored sources across the network. LiquidPixels Enables the remoting of any source device s user interface to any LiquidHD display device, and for a single remote control at each display to control all source devices on a network. LiquidControl Enables secure communication between connected devices. LiquidPlay A security and content protection architecture, ... more details
such as Multimedia over Coax Alliance MoCA , HomePNA 3.1 over coax and phone wires already ... Nations ITU T G.hn Standard , CEPCA, HomePNA, and UPA Unite with HomeGrid Forum to Promote Next ... Network Alliance DLNA , Holland Electronics, LLC, HomePNA Alliance, Institute for Information Industry ... item&rec id 161 ref Service providers On February 26, 2009, as part of a HomePNA press release, AT&T ... http www.marketwatch.com news story homepna homegrid sign liaison agreement story.aspx?guid C8E4BB07 375A 41E5 8B05 2E33222E44C2 &dist msr 9 HomePNA and HomeGrid Sign Liaison Agreement , Groups Work ... home networking organizations that promoted previously incompatible technologies CEPCA , HomePNA and the Universal ... rec T REC G e ITU T Recommendations Series G http homepnablog.typepad.com The HomePNA Blog contains ... more details
system on a chip architectures, and have native TR 069 support, as well as support for HomePNA ... HomePNA formerly Home Phoneline Networking Association Home Gateway Initiative Multimedia over ... more details
Image Audiotron.jpg thumbnail right AudioTron The Turtle Beach Systems Turtle Beach AudioTron AT 100 and AT 101 are Rack unit 1U rack mountable, High fidelity hi fi network music players. An AudioTron can stream digital music files from personal computers or Network attached storage NAS devices without the need to install server software on these storage devices since the AudioTron is based on Windows CE and is therefore a computer that looks like audio hardware. ref http www.pcmag.com article2 0,2817,1572231,00.asp ref Supported file formats include Wave, WMA, MP3 and MP3 playlists. These files can reside on a Microsoft Windows network share or on a Samba software Samba server . AudioTron reads music files over Ethernet or HomePNA HPNA network , and generates analog audio via RCA connector s as well as digital audio via S PDIF . An AudioTron can play streaming media from Internet radio stations. The formats supported are Windows Media , SHOUTcast and Icecast . The Windows Media support is limited to the features available before the release of Windows Media Player 10. Connecting to Internet radio stations was once supported through a free service called TurtleRadio. When TurtleRadio was shut down by Turtle Beach, Turtle Beach disclosed an alternative method available in the device s firmware using a local file to load one s Internet radio station list into the AudioTron. Users operate the AudioTron with a PC laptop on the same network using the web interface from the built in webserver, with a remote control or on the device itself using buttons and a large Turn & Push Selector Knob on its front panel. The knob is used to navigate song selection menu on a two line green LCD display. Users can select songs by turning and pushing the knob, based on various combinations of Genre, Album, Title and Artist tags. The knob also serves as volume control and playhead control while a song is being played. Standard Play, Pause, Stop, Forward and Rewind buttons can be used to c ... more details
Ethernet over Coax EoC is a family of technologies that supports the transmission of Ethernet frames over coaxial cable . History The first Ethernet standard, known as 10BASE5 in the family of IEEE 802.3 , specified baseband operation over coaxial cable, which remained the principal medium until the 1990s when thinner, cheaper twisted pair s came to dominate the market. The use of coaxial cable for Ethernet is still supported by the standard, but rarely used because coaxial cable is more costly to purchase, install, and operate for Local Area Network s. Research in Ethernet transmission over coaxial cable continued, as both consumers and telecommunications operators strive to use existing coaxial cable from Cable Television or CATV installations, to carry broadband data into and through the home, and into Multiple Dwelling Unit MDU installations. Most EoC technologies are being developed for in home or in premise networking and are expected to be operated within the domain of a single operator. Standards Home networking Recommendations The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE maintains all official Ethernet standards in the 802.x family or protocols. Active work in Ethernet over Coax is ongoing when date July 2011 in IEEE 1394 Trade Association TA developed based on the S400 standard. citation needed date July 2011 ITU T G.hn The ITU T G.hn standard provides high speed up to 1 Gigabit s local area networking over existing home wires, including coaxial cable, power lines and phone lines. It defines an Application Protocol Convergence APC layer for encapsulation standard 802.3 Ethernet frames into G.hn MAC Service Data Units MSDUs . Other ITU T standards for home networking over coaxial cable include G.9954, also known as HomePNA 3.1 . MoCA The Multimedia over Coax Alliance MoCA is an industry alliance that develops specifications for home networking over coaxial cables. The MoCA specification is technically not a standard, because MoCA is not a reco ... more details
refimprove date September 2009 Computer networks and Internet technology This article gives a brief outline of foundation for networks, direct link networks, packet switching , internetworking , end to end protocols, resource allocation issues, and applications. Computer networks When two or more computers are interconnected to each other via some kind of medium to share resources then the state is called computer network . Computer network is the interconnection of computers for communication purposes. Connection method Computer networks can also be classified according to the hardware and software technology that is used to interconnect the individual devices in the network, such as Optical fiber , Ethernet , Wireless LAN , HomePNA , Power line communication or G.hn . Ethernet uses physical wiring to connect devices. Frequently deployed devices include Ethernet hub hubs , network switch es, network bridge s and or Router computing router s. Wireless LAN technology is designed to connect devices without wiring. These devices use radio wave s or Infrared infrared signals as a transmission medium. Ethernet over coax ITU T G.hn ITU T G.hn Ethernet over coax technology uses existing home wiring coaxial cable, phone lines and power lines to create a high speed up to 1 Gigabit s local area network. Wired technologies Twisted pair This is the most widely used medium for telecommunication. Twisted pair wires are ordinary telephone wires which consist of two insulated copper wires twisted into pairs and are used for both voice and data transmission. The use of two wires twisted together helps to reduce crosstalk and electromagnetic induction. The transmission speed range from 2 million bits per second to 100 million bits per second. Coaxial cable These cables are widely used for cable television systems, office buildings, and other worksites for local area networks. The cables consist of copper or aluminum wire wrapped with insulating layer typically of a flexible material ... more details
HomePNA ref have become a popular solution for this problem, cn date November 2011 although fragmentation ... cables . ref http www.marketwatch.com news story homepna homegrid sign liaison agreement story.aspx?guid C8E4BB07 375A 41E5 8B05 2E33222E44C2 &dist msr 9 HomePNA and HomeGrid Sign Liaison Agreement , Groups ... more details
TV References Reflist 2 http eon.businesswire.com releases telus homepna prweb1276784.htm Telus Selects CopperGate s HomePNA for IPTV Service External links official http www.telus.com http www.telusmobility.com ... more details
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