High-tech market research firm, In-Stat (News - Alert), has released a report on Home Networking. The report says that present time is a trend of multimedia phase of home networking which is blending into networked consumer electronics (CE) devices and networked media devices.

 

In-Stat report studies shows that, the home networking is finding growth but conquering the market very slowly. Most of the consumers still use their home network for Internet sharing and not on media devices or consumer electronics (CE) devices. This research is part of In-Stat’s Residential Connectivity service.

 

In-Stat offers a wide-range of information resources and analytical assets to technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals, and market specialists all over the world. It integrates both supply-side and demand-side research methodologies into a single comprehensive view of technology markets and products. This capability of In-Stat depends on a unique ability to cover the entire value chain from engineering-level technology, through equipment, infrastructure, services and end-users.

 

“Improvement is still needed when it comes to consumer awareness of the new breed of PC and non-PC network-capable media devices (Media Center PCs, CE media servers, digital media adapters, digital media receivers/players, and other networked CE devices),” said Joyce Putscher, In-Stat analyst, in the press release, “To date, non-PC network-enabled stationary media devices have been dominated by game consoles.  However, the vast majority of non-PC network-enabled stationary devices are not currently used to stream audio and video multimedia streams from room to room.”

 

In-Stat’s recent research has come out with some statistics like, media server-capable device shipments have grown by a 43% of compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from year 2006 to year 2011l worldwide, market for basic media server shipments to be placed in home networks within one year is expected to grow by 62% from 2006 to 2011 and home networks with at least one PC and at least one networked CE device will grow by about 100% in 2008.

 

Recent research released by In-Stat, ‘Global Networked Media Clients & Servers to See More Competition from Traditional Entertainment Component Vendors’, shows studies on worldwide market of home networking. This report focused on multimedia functionalities joining the network established for PCs and non-PC stationary CE devices in the home. The report also covers consumer survey results related to digital home multimedia networking. The report also includes information on worldwide installed base of home networks and those networks with PC and CE devices.

 

The report shows that the digital home and home networking offers a very good opportunity to those companies who can meet the complex challenges of consumer demands, all over the world.

 

In-Stats’ Residential Connectivity Service provides a comprehensive analysis of the worldwide home networking market and the connected digital home from in-home infrastructure to networked media devices, from equipment, services, silicon, applications, and consumer viewpoint. It also provides an insight into areas such as wired, wireless and alternative wired home network and also hardware, multimedia and entertainment networking, consumer network storage, network management, networked home automation, home network silicon, routers, residential gateways, and many more.

 

In-Stat also gives forecasts on each market segment, from consumer PCs to non-PC network-enabled stationary media devices. Non-PC forecasts provide information on network-enabled units and segmentations for wired and wireless devices.

 

In-Stat also gives details for PCs with a Media Center-enabled OS, basic media servers, PCs with a Media Center-enabled OS plus TV, non-PC devices with embedded media servers (e.g., set top boxes, digital media adapters/digital media receivers, network storage, etc.), and also to total media server-capable devices.