My Opinion and Perspective CES 2008 is best remembered as the year when it
became fashionable for the media to question the relevance of this
uberconvention, and for many to skip attendance altogether. Given the intense
and indepth media coverage of the show, attendance should no longer be
considered mandatory unless you're trying to tease out the trends and make the
observations missed by the mainstream media. This is what we took away from the
show and what readers will find relevant:The layer 1 home networking problem is
officially solved. There were multiple products all leveraging ZigBee (low
bandwidth wireless), HPNA (Coax Phoneline), MOCA (Coax), HomePlugAV (Powerline),
ultrawide band (high bandwidth wireless) and last but not least the latest WiFi
802.11n. There is no shortage of ways to moncler uk move bits
around the home and it is clear that physical connectivity is no longer the
problem when it comes to the connected home.
These technologies are making their way into everything from home networking
systems (Eaton had a nice ZigBee one here) to power strips ( with Ethernet RJ45
jacks running over the power lines). As predicted last year (see "802.11n is Not
About the Speed"), 802.11n went from prototype to mainstream technology in a
year.
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the show was talking HDDVD vs. BluRay, the match up we found more
interesting was MOCA (definition) vs. HPNA (definition). Both networking
standards leverage preexisting inhome wiring to provide a faster and more
reliable alternative to 802.11 WiFi. MOCA reuses the coax wiring that
interconnects the televisions in your home while HPNA uses either the phone
wiring or coax. At this point most of the carrier industry, with the exception
of AT (NYSE:T), has rallied behind MOCA.
Intellon (ITLN), the HomePlugAV market leader and Entropic (NASDAQ:ENTR), the
MOCA market leader were both at the conference. Both companies are new IPOs and
carry the heavy weight of high investor expectations. Entropic's technology is
at the heart of Verizon (NYSE:VZ)'s FiOS TV moncler uk online
deployment and is the mechanism for settop boxes to stream video, as well as the
mechanism for settop boxes to communicate with the Verizon ONT in order to
transmit ondemand video titles from the network to the settop box. MOCA (and
Entropic) scored a big win with both Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Cisco
(NASDAQ:CSCO)(Scientific Atlanta) endorsing their technology with a next gen
MOCA enabled cable box.
Entropic goes so far to position MOCA as an alternative to DOCSIS and a
potential contender for nextgen cable broadband access. This is stretching the
limits of believability, but does make for a good roadmap story. Entropic's big
problem will arrive once this market gets large enough to attract Broadcom
(NASDAQ:BRCM) and Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) and the inevitable integration of MOCA
technology in their systemonachip begins.
Once someone can crack the wholehouse networking software problem, all of
these technologies should allow for rapid and inexpensive connectivity of every
electric device in your home. There is a protocol for practically any
application.
Vonage Moving into Hardware Vonage (NYSE:VG) introduced some new products at
the show that do a decent job of shoring up its branding position as well as
making VoIP installation easier for your average Joe.
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