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05-28-2008, 05:03 PM
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Running fiber, VDSL, or cable to your house is one thing, but providers are faced with new suite of problems when it comes to cheaply wiring your home for the triple-play. Verizon recently decided to use 270 Mbps capable equipment from the Multimedia Over Coax alliance (MOCA) for Fios installs. The move allowed them to use existing Coax for home-networking, avoid more expensive Cat-5, and drive-down the cost per home of Fios deployment.
Now D-Link is capitalizing on the cost-savings of MOCA by offering their new Coax Ethernet Adapter Kit (http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=861554) (DXN-221). The $199 kit, which will go on sale during the third quarter of this year, comes with two adapters (additional adapters are $109.99). The adapters come with both coaxial F-type connectors and an Ethernet port.
If I recall correctly, AT&T was also originally using MOCA for U-Verse IPTV installs, but shifted to Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HPNA) technology. HPNA allows for the use of either coax or traditional copper phone lines for home-networking, and HPNA version 3 will be integrated into the Motorola set-tops being used for U-Verse.
MOCA and HPNA are two of the four Ethernet-alternative options being used to distribute content around the home. The others are 802.11n, the Wi-Fi standard that remains un-finalized, and Homeplug AV, a technology that offers 200Mbps connectivity via home electrical wiring. Discussion of these solutions has heated up thanks to the bandwidth demands imposed by offering the triple play - particularly HD content.
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Running fiber, VDSL, or cable to your house is one thing, but providers are faced with new suite of problems when it comes to cheaply wiring your home for the triple-play. Verizon recently decided to use 270 Mbps capable equipment from the Multimedia Over Coax alliance (MOCA) for Fios installs. The move allowed them to use existing Coax for home-networking, avoid more expensive Cat-5, and drive-down the cost per home of Fios deployment.
Now D-Link is capitalizing on the cost-savings of MOCA by offering their new Coax Ethernet Adapter Kit (http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=861554) (DXN-221). The $199 kit, which will go on sale during the third quarter of this year, comes with two adapters (additional adapters are $109.99). The adapters come with both coaxial F-type connectors and an Ethernet port.
If I recall correctly, AT&T was also originally using MOCA for U-Verse IPTV installs, but shifted to Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HPNA) technology. HPNA allows for the use of either coax or traditional copper phone lines for home-networking, and HPNA version 3 will be integrated into the Motorola set-tops being used for U-Verse.
MOCA and HPNA are two of the four Ethernet-alternative options being used to distribute content around the home. The others are 802.11n, the Wi-Fi standard that remains un-finalized, and Homeplug AV, a technology that offers 200Mbps connectivity via home electrical wiring. Discussion of these solutions has heated up thanks to the bandwidth demands imposed by offering the triple play - particularly HD content.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Use-Existing-Coax-For-Your-Home-Network-94809)