D-Link , the privately held home-networking concern, earlier this year announced the DCS-2100, which it's billing as a security camera.
The home-networking method with the most steam behind it is wireless, because it avoids the considerable hassle of running network cable through walls.
Management projected revenue will increase 4 percent to 6 percent from last year, assuming a deal to sell its home-networking business closes on schedule next month.
RF, once touted as the ultimate home-networking standard, has been wiped out by Wi-Fi, but newer technologies such as ZigBee and ultrawideband are now in the running too.
It would not be terribly hard for Apple to upgrade its Airport line of wireless home-networking products to increase data-transmission speeds and create a new hardware device that allows users of its iTunes music software to play their music on home stereo systems.
The phone-line networking solutions will be compatible with standards from the Home Phoneline Networking Association, an industry-sponsored group that has developed standards for home networking.
On a conference call, Senior Vice President Charles Giancarlo said that Cisco originally intended to build a home networking business--including the products--itself.
Consumer electronics (CE) vendors and service providers are seeking standards-based Wi-Fi home networking solutions for HD video distribution to enable consumers to easily stream video content between CE devices, set top boxes (STBs) and personal computers (PC).
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Products now include set-top boxes, home networking, mobile TV and a huge portfolio of technical patents -- the company controls licensing of the MP3 codec, for instance.
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She stumbled upon the Work-At-Home Moms Web site and joined its E-mail networking list.
In addition to phones, tablets and Internet video appliances, Motorola sells wireless home networking hardware, two-way radios and baby monitors.
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The executive team is drawn from the leaders and innovators of cloud-based services and home networking, including Broadcom, NETGEAR, 3Com, Synchronoss and HP.
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This includes broadband Internet connectivity, two VoIP ports, home networking via a four-port, 11n wireless switch, a USB port (to share devices, such as printers and storage).
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She stumbled upon the Work-At-Home Moms Web site (see box) and joined its E-mail networking list.
The joint reference design meets the demand for in-room HDMI cable replacement applications as well as whole-home full-HD video content sharing, using standards-based Wi-Fi networking technology.
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All U-verse Internet packages include wireless home networking at no extra cost.
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Executives with Philips Electronics outlined strategy and gave advance demonstrations of new and upcoming peripherals, including a home networking system for consumers and thin-client products aimed at corporate users.
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When it is finished in the second half of this year, the specification is expected to deliver data rates of 10Mbps for home phoneline networking and also to be backward-compatible and interoperate with existing HomePNA 1Mbps technology.
Now though, the new Facebook Home - in effect a skin you can install to turn an Android phone into a social networking device - seems to be right at the centre of the mobile strategy.
For those who demand access to their social networking sites at all times, the device allows users to change the layout of the home-page to allow instant access to Twitter, Facebook and a host of other social networking services.
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"Linksys is one of the leading home networking providers and has created a market-leading suite of products and services to meet customer needs, " said Hilton Romanski, VP Corporate Business Development, Cisco.
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The early-adopter set has been playing with home networking for a few years, but now the technology is spreading to mainstream consumers, who want to split the fast Internet connection of a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL) among several PCs, and also share computer files and peripherals such as printers and scanners.
Celeno is a leading provider of high performance Wi-Fi chips for HD multimedia and entertainment home networking applications.
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"The hybrid home network is clearly the network of the future - offering the best networking technology to meet the consumer's needs - so IEEE establishing this standard is significant, " said Rob Ranck, president of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance.
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Cisco competes with well-established players like D-Link (TPE:2332) and Netgear in the home networking market.
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Broadcom's 28 nanometer (nm) ARM-based BCM7445 UltraHD video decoder solution, serving as the primary gateway to the home, delivers more transcoding, CPU processing performance and home networking throughput to support a greater range of applications such as video-on-demand (VoD), gaming, social media and web store applications.
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D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for consumer electronics and an award-winning designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, storage, home automation, security, and entertainment solutions for the digital home.
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For instance, Apple and Intel could leverage each other's strength to go deeper into the home entertainment realm, such as with TVs or a hub device that is more networking- and satellite-oriented than it is computer-oriented.
Spanning multiple computing, communication and entertainment platforms, Logitech's combined hardware and software enable or enhance digital navigation, music and video entertainment, gaming, social networking, audio and video communication over the Internet, video security and home-entertainment control.
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