Connected Home News: The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has ratified a new global standard for home networking for the delivery of room-to-room HDTV, promising high quality multimedia over power, coaxial, phone and other home network wiring.
The standard is published under the G.hn banner and is described as delivering up to 20 times the throughout of existing wireless technologies and three times that of existing wired technologies.
The specifications are expected to be used by chip manufacturers to build transceivers that can be incorporated into set-top boxes, residential gateways, home computers, home audio systems, DVD players, TVs or any other device that may be connected to the network.
Silicone vendors are expected to immediately start incorporating the specifications into transceivers, according to the ITU, implying that G.hn-compliant products “could be on the market as early as 2010″.
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