The 1394 Trade Association today announced the adoption of the first global standard for networking digital content over coaxial cables using Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications. The new 1394 Over Coax standard is designed to enable the industry’s fastest whole-home network in a multi-supplier ecosystem featuring protected high-definition and multimedia content.
The 1394 Trade Association’s “no new wires” home networking standard provides for data rates up to 800 Megabits per second, enabling a high-speed multimedia home network that can work with all 1394 and IP-enabled devices over coax wiring. The MAC/PHY layers specified in the new standard are available now in a new chipset from Pulse~LINK using its CWave® UWB technology. CWave features guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) and data rate performance never before achieved over existing in-home coax cabling.
"Given the guaranteed Quality of Service, content protection and bandwidth of 1394 -- and now the ability to deliver these benefits over existing coax throughout the home -- we consider this new standard to be a significant development in support of next generation home networking,” says Wilt Hildenbrand, Senior Advisor Engineering and Technology for Cablevision Systems Corp. “With today’s high-definition digital set-top-boxes already incorporating a 1394 port, this new global standard can unlock the value and the positive consumer benefits this port was always intended to deliver."
The new standard also serves as the basis for the whole-home networking backbone defined by the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA). HANA solutions enable consumers to share premium quality HD content across audio-video devices in a trusted environment. HANA, a cross-industry organization comprised of leading content providers, service providers, consumer electronic manufacturers and technology companies, chose 1394 for whole-home distribution of premium content because of its guaranteed QoS and DTCP security. Many of the guidelines for development of HANA-enabled products will be based on the new 1394 Over Coax Specification.
For more information, visit www.1394ta.org.
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