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Technology Stocks : Frank Coluccio Technology Forum - ASAP
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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (704)12/12/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: George Dawson  Read Replies (1) of 1782
 
Frank,

Very good review of home networks or as the authors refer to it "the last 100 yards" in this month's IEEE Spectrum.

The article also includes projections for households with structured wiring in the U.S. as well as the breakdown by medium (powerline, wireless, phone line). The projected increase in structured wiring goes from 50K in 1999 to 800K in 2003. Phone line dominates in this space 87% in 2000 to 70% in 2003. The percentage points lost are gained by wireless. The structured wiring has been pushed heavily by some tech companies and IBM was mentioned. In that approach all the lines (cat 5, phone lines, power lines, and RG-6 coaxial cable) all come in through the same point. IBM has a Home Director product that would manage devices on the network. Upstream from this director would be a broadband gateway to the internet containing the necessary modems or transceiver devices.

The article also contains specifics about companies and proprietary technologies competing in this space. For example, Tut Systems (Pleasant Hill, CA) has a system for frequency division multiplexing on phone lines. Their system creates three channels for phone service, ASDL, and entertainment and more high speed data.

Overall, a very interesting article worth reading.

George D.

Ref: Dutta-Roy A. Networks for homes. Spectrum 1999; 36:26-33.
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