Home Media Alternatives

In many types of media, bits flow among terminal devices in the home. Due to the interest in residential broadband, new companies and technologies are emerging constantly. Among the more promising approaches are these:

  • Phone wire, standardized as HomePNA

  • Coaxial cable, now used to distribute cable TV in the home

  • Home electrical circuits or powerline

  • Firewire, or IEEE 1394b

  • Category 5 wiring, used for Fast Ethernet in business locations

  • Wireless, standardized as IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, HomeRF, and Bluetooth

Phone Wire

Telephone wire is used today to distribute voice service from the NID to the individual telephone handsets in the home in a bus topology. A study by [Kerpez] characterized the performance of home phone wire ...

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