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VIRTUALISATION Coming soon: wireless technologies for the high bandwidth home
VIRTUALISATION Coming soon: wireless technologies for the high bandwidth home | Coming soon: wireless technologies for the high bandwidth home |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 30 July 2008 | |
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Providing that connectivity is a market that is being tackled by a number of competing and complimentary technologies. Last week Amimon, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony announced the formation of a special interest group to "develop a comprehensive new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control connectivity utilising Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology." They intend to complete the new standard in 2008 "to ensure that CE devices manufactured by different vendors will simply and directly connect to one another." The group aims to enhance the current WHDI technology to enable wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio between devices such as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD and Blu-Ray disc players, set-top boxes, game consoles, and PCs. However if you believe Ruckus Wireless, there is no need for this technology. Just days after the WHDI announcement, it announced the immediate availability of its new MediaFlex 7000 series, billing it as "the first commercial 802.11n system specifically developed for operators to distribute multiple streams of high-definition IPTV content throughout a subscriber's home without costly and time-consuming cable installation." And it named Belgian telco, Belgacom as one of the its first service provider customers. CONTINUED |
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