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December 09, 2008

Broadcom's DLNA Technology Enables Easy Digital Media Sharing

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Broadcom (News - Alert), a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, will showcase a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)-enabled connected home at CES (News - Alert) 2009, an announcement from the company said.



 
The technology allows users to share and access digital media easily across a variety of wired and wireless connectivity technologies, such as Multimedia over Cable Alliance (MoCA), Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and Ethernet.
 
Although many of the homes have MoCA or Wi-Fi networks installed, they do not facilitate easy sharing of contents between connected devices. The DLNA technology allows users to locate digital content anywhere on their home network and move or stream this content between connected devices, Broadcom said.
 
With DLNA technology, customers can share and stream digital content including DVR recordings, music, photos and videos between consumer electronics (CE) devices, mobile handsets, set-top boxes (STBs) and personal computers (PCs) anywhere throughout their homes, Broadcom said.
 
For example, the technology enables watching DVR recordings anywhere in the home or on a mobile handset, streaming photos from a mobile handset onto a digital TV, sending photos from a mobile handset to a printer, viewing stored photos on a digital TV or listening to stored MP3 music files stored on a PC through a home stereo system.

Another advantage of Broadcom’s technology is its compliance with the open-standard DLNA Interoperability Guidelines, enabling manufacturers to develop a wide range of interoperable devices that allow easy sharing and streaming of content around the home among many devices.
 
By integrating Broadcom SoCs with networking technology and powerful applications processors, Broadcom enables manufacturers to achieve DLNA certification with cost effective single-chip solutions.
 
Manufacturers can then highly differentiate their products with a wide range of applications and services that the DLNA-connected home enables. Service providers will benefit by being able to offer customers advanced applications such as DVR-anywhere, connected TV services, and easy management of user-generated content via the home network that will greatly enhance the customer's entertainment experience, Broadcom said.
 
“As we continue our leadership in home connectivity, Broadcom is ideally positioned to drive and enable the transition to a DLNA-connected ecosystem that will simplify implementation for consumer electronics manufacturers and service providers,” said Dan Marotta, senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group, in a statement.
 
“With our ongoing commitment and significant contribution to DLNA as a technology component provider, we are enabling a host of DLNA Certified devices including set-top boxes, digital televisions, media gateways, home gateways/routers, Blu-ray Disc players and mobile devices that will change the way consumers interact and share content in the next generation digital home,” Marotta added.
 
DLNA alliance was established with the goal of ensuring interoperability in home networks. It currently maintains a platform of interoperability based on open and established industry standards that, when used by manufacturers will support the sharing of media throughout wired or wireless networks. DLNA had certified more than 3,100 DLNA- enabled products from 36 different manufacturers.

“Broadcom is helping to drive the adoption of DLNA technology at the component level to enable manufacturers to easily develop the products necessary to realize the next generation connected home vision,” said Scott Smyers, chairman of DLNA, in a statement.
 
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Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Michelle Robart


 







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