Comtrend Takes Home Networking to 400Mbps Over Powerlines.Telecom Equipment Manufacturer announces the PowerGrid 904, First Ethernet-Powerline Adaptor That Enables 400Mbps Speeds Over Existing Wiring in a Home. IRVINE, Calif. -- Comtrend Corp., a leading supplier of broadband, VoIP and data networking equipment, today announced it has become the first manufacturer to offer home networking adaptors that support speeds up to 400 Mbps. Comtrend's new product, called the PowerGrid 904, is an Ethernet Powerline adaptor that plugs into any standard power plug in a home. The PowerGrid 904 provides Comtrend's carrier customers a competitive advantage in deploying next-generation triple-play services, particularly IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , over existing wiring within a consumer's home. The PowerGrid 904 plugs into any power outlet into the home and has Ethernet plugs to turn the home power lines into a network. Each power outlet in the home with a PowerGrid 904 becomes a place to connect Residential Gateways, IP Set Top Boxes and Computers to join a high speed home network. The PowerGrid 904 uses advanced chipset technology from DS2 (www.ds2.es) to achieve speeds up to 400Mbps. The PowerGrid 904 and DS2 chipset technology are compliant with the Universal Powerline Alliance (UPA (Ultra Port Architecture) A high-speed interconnect between the CPU and memory from Sun. It uses a packet-switched crossbar architecture that can transfer more than 100 MBytes/sec. ) standard. With this new technology carriers have a simple way to deploy IPTV and other advanced triple-play services within a consumer's home. The use of power lines within a home to create a network eliminates the costly and time consuming need to re-wire with Ethernet cables. With such features as Quality of Service (QoS), remote management and repeater function, the PowerGrid 904 is capable of distributing reliable services in any home environment. "Reliable distribution of high speed data within a consumer's home is the key to a successful deployment of triple play services," said Andrew Morton People named Andrew Morton include:
adj. 1. Dangerously fast: a breakneck pace. 2. Likely to cause an accident: a breakneck curve. speeds up to 400Mbps over power lines, QoS, remote management and repeater function." The PowerGrid 904 will start shipping early next year. For more information about Comtrend's entire portfolio of telecom products visit www.comtrend.com. About Comtrend Corp.: With more than 7 million products installed, Comtrend is a leading global supplier of DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary equipment. Comtrend offers a broad array of leading edge, high-quality DSL products that embeds ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line , ADSL2+, Bonded ADSL2+ and VDSL See DSL. VDSL - Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line 2 technologies to support; triple-play voice, video and data applications including IP-Video, VoIP, optional WiFi Drops and industry standard QoS with VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network traffic assignment; IGMP snooping IGMP Snooping is the process of improving IGMP. IGMP snooping, as implied by the name, is a feature that allows the switch to "listen in" on the IGMP conversation between hosts and routers. and IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) The protocol that governs the management of multicast groups in a TCP/IP network. To sign up for a multicast group, a Host Membership Report is sent by a user's machine to its nearest routers, which forward that data to proxy providing efficient traffic management and control in IP multicast applications. Comtrend is a global company with headquarters in Irvine, California, and offices in Madrid, Spain and Taipei, Taiwan. For more information, visit the Comtrend web site at: www.comtrend.com. About DS2.: DS2 is the leading technology innovator and a global provider of high-speed semiconductor solutions for Powerline Communications and other wire-line network communications products. Led by a very strong team of former executives from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , AT&T/Bell-Labs, INTEL, Philips Semiconductors, France Telecom, Ericsson and Cisco executives we deliver state-of-the-art ICs and software solutions to manufacturers of consumer electronics, home networking and digital entertainment equipment and broadband access products. DS2 invented high-speed Powerline Communications delivering the first 200 Mbps Powerline Communications IC to enable the delivery of quality multimedia home networking, networked entertainment and broadband access applications to and throughout the home, office, or building, and to and throughout urban and rural communities. Enabling the hidden multimedia network behind the power outlet is the purpose of DS2. Our mission is to connect the Planet. |
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