A Comparison of Competing Broadband in Home Technologies

Communal Network Architecture for Sharing High Bandwidth Services

“…From low rate accesses for simple tasks (e.g., mail reading or web browsing) to subscriptions of videoconferencing or interactive game services, consumers devote a remarkable time of their lives to the cyberspace [2]. Aiming to improve customer's contentment, telecommunication operators and ISPs are merging technical solutions and providing all-in one products, e.g., triple-play and quad-play services.…”

“…Therefore, it is common to find various Internet access technologies in the same building [2]. Each technological solution (e.g., cable, ADSL, GPRS) has a set of characteristics that result in different performance features.…”

Assessing interoperability of access equipment for broadband networks

“…The users want to gain access to the latest services such as broadband Internet, security and assistance services, audio and/or video on demand or home monitoring and control in the easiest way [7]. Often, the SOHO customer has low or none expertise in network configuration, so they rely on the SP for the software setting of the RG.…”

Using the iDTV as the Center of an Ubiquitous Environment

“…The main features of these networks are data rate transmission between 10 Mbps (HomePNA) and 14 Mbps (HomePlug), transmission of multimedia contents and connection of up to 50 devices in the same network. Nevertheless, there are some technical difficulties in building these networks, such as scalability of the number of connected devices in the network and security issues in data traffic (Zahariadis et al, 2002).…”