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| Media Networking 2005: The Networked
Living Room Becomes a Reality |
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CES 2005 was bursting with announcements
about new products that can zap traffic around the home network. The
main difference between this year and previous years is that many
of the products were actually ready to ship, as opposed to being concepts
developed to wow the media. It seemed that nearly every PC, networking
and consumer electronics vendor had some type of media server or adapter
on display, with many other companies announcing how they had provided
some ingredient technology to power these new devices.
With the technical and consumer education standards still looming
large but becoming less of a hurdle, In-Stat expects media networking
to continue to grow rapidly throughout the forecast period. Much of
the growth will be driven by PC vendors, who are rolling out Media
Center PCs that fit both in look and function in the living room.
The early models are still considered premium consumer PCs, but we
expect that capabilities to make the PC and whole-home media hub will
become standard within the next three years. The integration of media
ports into CE devices will continue, with many devices having Ethernet
and 802.11x ports standard in coming years. Total media networking
connections will grow from over 51 million in 2005 to over 223 million
in 2009, a 29% annual growth rate. |
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- Executive Summary
- Methodology
- Introduction
- Media Networking
Market Segments
- The Media Center
PC
- CE Media Servers
- Set-Top
Boxes
- Fixed Function
Media Server
- Media Server
as CE Function
- Media Adapters
- Other Media
Networking Devices
- Standards
- 1394
- 1394a
- 1394b
- 1394c
- Wireless
1394
- HomePlug
- MoCA (Coax)
- 802.11/Wi-Fi
- WWiSE 802.11n
Specification
- TGn Sync
802.11n Specification
- Pre-802.11n
Technologies
- 802.11e
QoS Specification
- EDCA/WME
Wireless Medium Access Mechanism
- HCCA/WSM
Wireless Medium Access Mechanism
- Wi-Fi
Multimedia (WMM) QoS Profile
- UWB
- What is
UWB?
- UWB as
PHY for High Bit-Rate WPANs
- Task
Group 3a: Primary Camps
- Media Networking
Standards
- DTCP over IP
- DLNA
- Universal Plug
and Play
- Media
Networking Forecast
- Selected Media
Networking Vendor Profiles
- Digital 5
- D-Link
- Denon
- Intel
- KiSS Technology
A/S
- Linksys
- Microsoft
- Netgear
- Orb Networks
- Thomson
- Sling Media
- ViewSonic
- Table 1. DLNA Interoperable
Certified
- Table 2. Worldwide
Home Network and Media Network Installed Base Forecast (Units in Thousands)
- Table 3. Worldwide
Home Media Server Unit Forecast (Units in Thousands)
- Table 4. Worldwide
Home Media Server Revenue Forecast (US$ in Thousands)
- Table 5. Media
Networking PHY Connections (Units in Thousands)
- Table 6. Orb Networks
Current Platform List
- Figure 1. Media
Networking Connections (in Thousands)
- Figure 2. Converged
Home Network
- Figure 3. Sonoma
Media Center PC
- Figure 4. HP Digital
Entertainment Center z555
- Figure 5. 2Wire
Media Portal
- Figure 6. SkipJam
iMedia Center
- Figure 7. TiVo
Series 2 PVR
- Figure 8. Linksys
Media Center Extender
- Figure 9. Thomson
Acoustic Research Digital MediaBridge
- Figure 10. Kodak
EasyShare One Wireless Camera
- Figure 11. Sling
Media's Sling Box
- Figure 12. D-Link
i2Eye
- Figure 13. DLNA
Recommended Protocol Stack from PHY Connectivity to Media Formats
- Figure 14. Optional
Formats for DLNA
- Figure 15. Digital
5 UPnP AV Server Architecture
- Figure 16. Worldwide
Home Media Server Forecast (Units in Thousands)
- Figure 17. Worldwide
Home Media Server Revenue Forecast (US$ in Thousands)
- Figure 18. Digital
5 Media Server and AV Client Software
- Figure 19. Intel
830M4 Chipset
- Figure 20. Linksys
Media Center Extender
- Figure 21. Netgear
Wireless Digital Media Player (MP115)
- Figure 22. Acoustic
Research Digital Media Bridge
- Figure 23. ViewSonic
WMA100
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