G.hn, the next generation standard for wired home networking developed by ITU-T keeps making progress at a very fast pace. Since Recommendation G.9960 (the first document produced by the G.hn project) achieved "consent" in December 2008, the engineers involved in G.hn keep working to finish the remaining parts of the specification later this year.
Service Providers - specially those already using wired technologies for IPTV delivery - want G.hn-compliant products as soon as possible, so G.hn is having official meetings approximately every month, to ensure that the complete standard is finished later this year.
Industry support to the G.hn effort is demonstrated by a number of recent announcements:
- Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics retailer in North America recently joined the Board of Directors of HomeGrid Forum, the organization set up to promote the G.hn standard and ensure interoperability between multiple vendors. (DS2 is a founding member of HomeGrid Forum.)
- A number of home networking organizations that previously promoted incompatible technologies (HomePNA, UPA and CEPCA) recently announced that they had agreed to work with HomeGrid Forum to promote G.hn as the single next generation standard for wired home networking. (DS2 is a founding member of UPA.)
DS2 is one of the most active contributors to the G.hn effort, and has been one of the first silicon vendors to announce plans to support the G.hn standard in upcoming products, like the dual-mode DSS9960, which will provide simultaneous compatibility with UPA and G.hn in a single chipset.
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