Powerline Networking Emerging As a Winner in the Residential Networking Race on a Worldwide Basis for Multimedia Home Networking

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c77653) has announced the addition of Powerline Home Networking 2007 Update: Gaining Power in the Global Market to their offering.

Broadband powerline (BPL) networking, or powerline communications (PLC), offers a solution with some advantages over coax and twisted-pair, especially in homes and regions with few coax or phone jacks. But, high-speed powerline solutions are also increasingly being used over coax. Surpassing the inflection point in 2006, worldwide equipment sales based on HomePlug, CEPCA and UPA powerline reached 5.4 million. Although MoCA and HomePNA are winning some deployments, especially in North America, we expect powerline will win the alternative wired networking medium race on a worldwide scale. With no new cabling needed, powerline networking is emerging as a winner in the residential networking race on a worldwide basis for multimedia home networking. Although broadband has gained most of the attention, the HomePlug Command and Control (HPCC) low-speed, narrowband powerline specification has recently been approved, with market emergence expected next year. Worldwide market acceptance is expected to be strong, especially in light of many regional mandates for energy savings. This report provides service providers, equipment and semiconductor vendors valuable guidance on market trends and expected progress, opportunities, segmentations, and market sizing. Worldwide forecasts include unit segmentation by geographic region, product categories, technology, bandwidth, PHY/MAC chipset ASP, retail vs. service provider channel, and in-home networking vs. access and utility use.

Selected Players Mentioned:

Actiontec Arkados Asoka USA Belkin Buffalo Technologies Communication Technologies (COMTek) Conexant Corinex Corporate Systems Engineering D-Link devolo AG Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2) Duke Energy EchoStar Gigafast Gigle Semiconductor Intel I-O Data Intellon Linksys MainNet Communications Microsoft Netgear Panasonic/Matsushita Qwest Communications Radio Shack Russound Sharp SPiDCOM Yitran Communications ZyXEL Communications

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