Aware Applauds the ITU's Consent of a Revolutionary New Home Networking Technology
Monday December 15, 4:47 pm ET
Semiconductor vendors plan development of G.hn chipsets as wired home networking shifts to a global mass-market.
BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE - News), a leading supplier of wireline communications technology to semiconductor companies, applauds the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) remarkable success in achieving the on-schedule consent of the new G.hn standard (G.9960) last week in Geneva, Switzerland. G.hn is a next generation home networking technology that enables users to share all varieties of digital content over any of the three most common wire-types found in homes worldwide: coaxial cables, electrical wires, and telephone lines. G.hn's three-wire capability and performance exceeds existing wired and wireless home networking technologies, making G.hn ideal for distributing all varieties of digital content, including multiple channels of high definition television (HDTV), throughout an entire home.
"Broadband access to the home has seen major advancements in the past few years," said Mario Finocchiaro, Director of Business Development at Aware, Inc. "Now, service providers have a reliable way to deliver their broadband content over the last '100 feet' throughout the home. G.hn is the natural next step for the broadband home and Aware plans to be a leader in this transition to a new level of home connectivity."
G.hn brings together requirements from service providers, consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and consumers under one of the world's foremost standards bodies. G.hn promises to reduce chip and equipment development costs by giving vendors a single standard that they can build to for virtually every type of digital home appliance from televisions and set-top-boxes to music players, personal computers, home automation and home security products. Multi-vendor interoperability will also be enhanced as vendors seek to deploy products that are easy for consumers to install and use. Combined, these factors signal the start of an enormous mass-market for G.hn chipsets.
With this consent, the ITU has produced the specifications that will allow semiconductor companies to begin developing G.hn chipsets immediately.
Aware plans to provide the G.hn silicon intellectual property (IP) and technical services that will enable semiconductor companies to develop G.hn system-on-chip (SoC) solutions rapidly and cost-effectively. Aware's G.hn IP will be available in both soft- and hard-IP formats and will include solutions for the digital and analog portions of the chipset. SoC vendors will be able to use Aware's IP to build stand-alone G.hn devices or to integrate G.hn functionality into new SoC designs. G.hn-enabled products are expected to reach the market in 2010.
Aware understands the needs of communications SoC vendors and is ideally suited to deliver G.hn technology on a broad scale. For over 13 years, Aware has been the premier supplier of standard-compliant and interoperable DSL technology to semiconductor companies throughout the world, and Aware's customers have shipped tens-of-millions of DSL ports worldwide. Aware has been a leader in the ITU Study Group 15 for over a decade and has participated in G.hn since its inception in 2006.
Aware is a member of the HomeGrid Forum and is participates closely in HomeGrid's technical, marketing, and advisory activities. On December 19th, the HomeGrid Forum will host a webinar covering G.hn's consent and its implications for the consumer market. The event will begin at 10am PST. For additional details on the webcast, please visit: www2.gotomeeting.com. |
