VESA Announces Home Network Technology Proof of Concept and Interoperability; Test Confirms Functional Success of Multiple Simultaneous Data Types and Network Schemes.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1998--The Video Electronics Standards Association See VESA. (body, standard) Video Electronics Standards Association - (VESA) An industry standards organisation created in 1989 or 1990 mostly(?) concerned with IBM compatible personal computers. (VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association, Milpitas, CA, www.vesa.org) A membership organization founded in 1989 that sets interface standards for the PC, workstation and computing environments. Note the following VESA standards following this entry. ), an international non-profit trade group of 365 member companies focused on driving new electronics standards, today announced the successful test of home network technology using multiple simultaneous digital video streams, multiple types of data streams and multiple network segments over long distances. Equipment and software supplied by Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Sony and others demonstrated acceptable interoperability of the various systems. "This test went a long way toward proving that interoperability in the home will indeed work," said Joel DiGirolamo, VESA Home Network Chair and Senior Program Manager at Lexmark International in Lexington, Ky. "With the skillful cooperation of many companies we've shown that our vision of the networked home is within reach, allowing end users the same level of information access and dissemination they now enjoy in the business environment." The demonstration used IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394-1995 S200 interfaces which operate at 200 Mbps, and a long distance variant of 1394. The VESA Home Network Committee specifications are defining home networking using long distance 1394 as the physical and data link protocol to support A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and , computer data applications, home automation and telephony around the home. Since other networks will be used both in the home and to the home, a connection was made to an Ethernet network and to an ATM gateway. The Internet Protocol (IP) will be the common network protocol. Equipment Used Mitsubishi Electric sent MPEG-2 video data from a server to a home network connected gateway using ATM. The two MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). streams were decoded by Mitsubishi video receivers. Sony digital video (DV) camcorders transported digital video data over the network. Sony long distance 1394 repeaters (100Mbps) were used for the 50 meter Category 5 UTP UTP (uridine triphosphate): see uracil. (Unshielded Twisted Pair) See twisted pair. UTP - unshielded twisted pair and 50 meter POF POF Piano dell'Offerta Formativa (Italy) POF Piano dell'Offerta Formativa (Italian school document) POF Plastic Optical Fiber POF Premature Ovarian Failure (early menopause) links. Personal computers were used for Web browsing using TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. and acting as an IP forwarder between an Ethernet network and the IEEE 1394 bus connected to the rest of the equipment. The IP over 1394 protocol stack implemented the draft IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force specification. VESA Home Network Goals The VESA Home Network specification, developed over the last 3 years, will allow consumers to connect together their disparate networks in the home, such as Ethernet, HomeRF and other no-new-wires networks. It will offer services such as directories, device existence and capability discovery and network management. More information may be found in the VESA Home Network White Paper, available at www.vesa.org. VIEW PROOF OF CONCEPT DIAGRAM ON THE VESA WEB SITE -- www.vesa.org About VESA VESA is the international non-profit organization that sets and supports industry-wide electronic standards for the video, audio and graphics interface of computer designs. It develops open, interoperable and international standards for the global marketplace, thus ensuring worldwide market growth. Established in 1989, it is headed by a board of directors representing a membership of more than 365 companies worldwide. For more information, or to arrange a press interview, please contact the VESA office at 408/435-0333. Visit VESA's Web Site at www.vesa.org to learn more about how VESA is working on standards today that will shape the technology of tomorrow. About Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (MELCO MELCO Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) MELCO Micro Electronics Company, Ltd (Mumbai, India) ) is one of the leading electrical and electronics equipment firms in the world. The company and its subsidiaries offer a broad line of information processing and communications systems, semiconductors and electronic devices, industrial equipment and consumer electronics, including wireless communications products such as analog, PCS and integrated voice/data phones. For more information, visit the MELCO web site at www.mitsubishielectric.com. About Lexmark International Lexmark International, Inc. is a global developer, manufacturer and supplier of printer solutions and products, including laser, inkjet and dot matrix printers and associated consumable supplies for the office and home markets. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Lexmark International Group, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LXK). Lexmark, which had sales of $2.5 billion in 1997, has executive offices and a manufacturing center in Lexington, Ky.; other manufacturing centers are in Boulder, Colo.; Juarez, Mexico; Rosyth, Scotland; Orleans, France; and Sydney, Australia. More information about Lexmark can be found on the company's home page at www.lexmark.com on the Internet. CONTACT: VESA Cathy Egan, 408/435-0333 cegan@vesa.org or Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc. Stefani Parrish, 408/774-3621 parrish_stefani@EDG.MEA MEA Multiple endocrine adenomatosis. See Multiple endocrine neoplasia. .com or Lexmark International Catherine Stewart, 606/232-7541 cstewart@lexmark.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion