Whole Home Networking — The Start of the End Game

Over the years, we’ve written many articles about what we term “whole home networking”: networks capable of carrying high-quality digital video, audio, telephony and data throughout the home. We have long believed that all existing networking technologies are “under the bar” — they lack the QoS mechanisms required to support time-critical applications like video and voice, and lack the application-level data rate for high-definition television.

Now, many new technologies are coming to market nearly simultaneously. Some are wireless, while others operate over existing wiring (electrical, telephone or coaxial cables) in the home. These technologies all seem to be “over the bar”: all have QoS, and all claim to have high enough data rates to support HDTV.

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