Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies, The

REMOTE MANAGEMENT FEATURES

Many technology proponents believe that home networks will only penetrate the mainstream marketplace once they are deployed by service providers who use them to extend their broadband Internet connection into the home. It is entirely possible that service providers may eventually choose to redefine the lines of network demarcation to actually include the home network itself. Yet for this to happen, the service provider would need the ability to query a network that now extends all the way to the powerline transceivers embedded either into wall modules or into the devices themselves. Remote management features would need to be integrated into the transceivers in order to give network operators and service providers the ...