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.
