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With households now containing a plethora of devices on which media can be consumed, the challenge is for service providers and their vendor partners to ensure safe and seamless transport around the home. Colin Mann finds out how a range of ndustry experts tackle the issue.
ith households varying significantly across continents and even within countries, is one network solution likely to emerge to carry all the rich media and value added services around the home? According to Dr Neale Foster, VP sales, marketing and strategy, TV, at ACCESS, there will be a number of network solutions and associated operators that carry media and services around the home. “Consumers will most likely chose the one that makes most sense for them from Wi-Fi, HomePlug/powerline, Ethernet. What is perhaps most important is that whichever network is chosen, most major players have chosen DLNA as the standard that enables interoperability for the host of devices that will look to share content in the multi-screen future.” “I wish!” exclaims Paul Bristow, VP strategy, middleware and consumer experience at ADB. “This seems less likely as time goes by. We are seeing a need for 'multi-phy' solutions that can use all the physical networks – Ethernet, various flavours of Wi-Fi, MoCA – in such a way as to maximise the quality of service for all the different things subscribers want to do.” Yaron Agami, product marketing, Cisco service provider video technology group, suggests that if one solution that manages all media and services will prevail, it will be an operatormanaged gateway device that will be the centre of the converged digital home, providing triple play and value added services around the home. Hui Zhang, founder and CEO of Conviva considers it unlikely tha ??????????????????????????????()\()?????????????????????????????????qQ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????=QP???????? ????t????????????%YIM%Qd??????? ????
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