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HGI drives the home gateway evolution

Newly appointed CTO Duncan Bees sets technical agenda

by Sean Buckley

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Home networking is no longer just about a phone line and a modem anymore. Just this week Verizon Communications announced that it would boost its home networking capabilities for its FiOS FTTH service to support 100 Mbps and above.

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These factors are placing new demands for increased functionality from the home networking gateways that carry triple play services. Telecommunications Editor in Chief Sean Buckley caught up with newly-appointed CTO of the Home Gateway Initiative, Duncan Bees.

Bees answers the following questions in this Audiocast:

• No doubt, the home network has evolved from what was nothing more from maybe a phone jack and an Internet modem to one that includes Set Top Boxes (STBs), gateways, computers, etc. How can the telecom industry make sense of all of this and what is the HGI doing to help in that effort?

• The HGI just put out a recent Home Gateway Tech spec document. Let’s talk about that and its significance for the home networking industry.

• What, from your perspective, is driving the need for more integrated home gateways by carriers, and do you see differences in approach by carrier and by region?

• What drove the need and adoption for the home gateway in Europe? Do you see new services like video driving more of that need in the U.S. and in Asia?

• Outside of traditional services like broadband, do you see the home network as a possible place to layer on other new services like home automation and security?

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