The digital living network alliance is a standard used by consumer electronics manufacturers to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network. DLNA enables consumer appliances to connect and exchange digital content throughout the home utilizing multimedia over coax alliance, Ethernet or wireless fidelity networks.
Accelerating the deployment of the standard, leading semiconductor solutions provider
Broadcom recently announced that its home networking reference design platform for set-top box and broadband access products featuring integrated multimedia over coax alliance connectivity has received multimedia over coax alliance 1.1 Certification from the multimedia over coax alliance certification board.
“MoCA (multimedia over coax alliance) connectivity allows service providers to utilize their existing in-home coaxial infrastructure, enabling media devices to take advantage of these new applications throughout the home,” officials said.
This technology enables subscribers to securely access, store and share multiple types of digital media content including HDTV programs, video-on-demand, recordings from digital video recorders, Internet content, video, music, photos and voice over Internet protocol.
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This development is significant for Broadcom because the integration of MoCA 1.1 connectivity into Broadcom system-on-a-chip solutions enables Broadcom to offer net throughput of 175 Megabits per second using packet aggregation.
The 175 Mbps speed is a significant increase over the previously stipulated performance metric of 100 Mbps. Apart from the performance improvement, Broadcom's MoCA 1.1 certified home networking reference design platform includes parameterized quality of service for bandwidth management and the ability to prioritize multiple streams of high definition content. There is also an increase in network size from eight nodes to 16 nodes.
Earlier this year, Broadcom had announced two new HD multi-format video decoder SoCs - BCM7420 and BCM7410 - with integrated MoCA at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show, TMCnet
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Dan Marotta, senior vice president & general manager of Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group, said MoCA 1.1, along with their broad portfolio of STB and media gateway designs, will address the evolving needs of operators for additional throughput, more device support and quality of service.
The MoCA specification developed by the alliance has been adopted by most of the leading U.S. service providers as the preferred in-home networking technology.
“Service providers are always looking for better methods of bandwidth management for premium services and content, especially with the expanding network of technologies incorporating the MoCA standard,” said Rob Gelphman, chair, Marketing Work Group, Multimedia over Coax Alliance.
“As one of the most prominent chip vendors in the cable industry and home networking market, Broadcom's 1.1 certification is yet another milestone for the MoCA standard, as their commitment will help to accelerate deployment of the standard as we make great strides towards achieving worldwide adoption,” Gelphman added.
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Edited by Jessica Kostek