Alcatel Joins Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA(TM)).SAN RAMON, Calif. & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- The Multimedia over Coax Alliance The Multimedia over Coax Alliance develops specifications for home networking over in-home coaxial cable, which is commonly used for antenna connections to TVs and radios, and cable TV. (MoCA(TM)) today announced that Alcatel (BOURSE:CGEP CGEP Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (Virginia) CGEP Center for Gifted Education Policy )(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALA) has joined as an associate member. "At the forefront of technology, Alcatel plays a key role in the deployment of next generation networks for the delivery of converged voice and high bandwidth services focusing on end user needs," said Mike Dobbs, senior vice president of Alcatel's access network activities in North America. "Alcatel's membership in MoCA underscores the company's desire to drive toward standardization for the delivery of these services to the home." "Alcatel is part of a growing recognition by savvy companies that distribution of whole-home digital entertainment will require the technology muscle that MoCA provides," Ladd Wardani, President of MoCA stated. "MoCA's video over coax solution is an efficient and robust delivery medium for digital entertainment in the home." MoCA is the first technology to consistently deliver HD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. quality video and digital entertainment throughout the whole home. It was developed from the ground up to address the key requirements for networking of digital entertainment: high throughput, quality of service (QoS), security, and ease of use. The technology underlying MoCA provides vital elements necessary to distribute digital entertainment throughout the home with a speed of 270 Mbps, high QoS, and the innate security of a shielded, wired connection combined with state of the art packet-level encryption. Field tests in real-world situations revealed MoCA technology net throughputs of more than 100 Mbps to 97 percent of coax outlets, without remediation, and 100 percent with a small and inexpensive filter. About Alcatel Alcatel provides communications solutions to carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks; applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 12.3 billion and 56,000 employees in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. About MoCA The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA(TM)) is an open, industry driven initiative promoting distribution of digital video and entertainment through existing coaxial cable in the home. MoCA technology provides the backbone for whole home entertainment networks of multiple wired and wireless products. MoCA's Board of Directors include Comcast (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CMCSA, CMCSK), Cox Communications, EchoStar (NASDAQ:DISH), Entropic Communications, Linksys, a division of Cisco, (NASDAQ:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Motorola (NYSE:MOT), Panasonic (NYSE:MC), Radio Shack (NYSE:RSH (Remote SHell) A Unix command that enables a user to remotely log into a server on the network and pass commands to it. It is similar to the rlogin command, but provides passing of command line arguments to the command interpreter on the server at the same time. ), Toshiba and Verizon (NYSE:VZ). For more information, please visit www.mocalliance.org. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion