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The Connected Home Enabling Technologies and New Service Models
Creating a Connected Home
• Interest stems from triple play service delivery » IPTV initially, RF overlay added » Began with residential gateway set top devices
• “Connected home” has different connotations: » Connecting services (voice, data, video) » Utilization of in-home wiring for service distribution » Creating a ubiquitous home network » “Smart home”
• Connected home is both a technology choice and service architecture decision
» Where the service provider demarcation is » How and where service management extends
Strategies for Connected Home Creation
• Fiber to the premise for broadband bandwidth • Ethernet distribution • Multi-Service, Multi-Play • Service Provider has ROI – can make money from it
Competing Interests: • 4G wireless as the connected home technology • Everything transitions to the Internet – no new service
opportunity for the carrier except bandwidth
Connected Home Needs Often ROI Based
CAPEX OpEx Revenues
Reduce in home wiring Lower installation time Lower labor costs Lower equipment costs Less materials costs
Service management Fewer truck rolls Interface outside home
Bundling services Enhanced services Quality of services Customer retention
In-Home Wiring Has Been the Driver Re-use existing in home wiring for
voice, data & video service
Less labor and time inside the home
Cross connect & bridge onto home wiring at side of home
Minimized disruption
Maintenance needs outside the premise
Varying Technology Approaches
1. Have a broad ONT product line » Features, functions, ports based on many needs
2. Build integrated or modular ONT » Put many features, functions, ports in one device to meet
many needs
3. Develop a “hybrid” architecture » Verizon FIOS model
4. Focus on consumer electronics solution » Residential gateway/STB » Functions becoming integrated in appliance » Adapters customer installed
Examples of Connected Home Devices Today
Residential Gateway STB Intelligent Multi-Service Gateway
• Multiple decoders • Re-use existing coax • Integrated Router (HSIA) • Derived voice ports • Centralized home networking
• RF or RFoG • HPNAv3 over coax networking • Multiple 10/100TX LAN ports • Multiple FXS voice ports • Layer 2/3 IP functionality • Fully managed • Connected home from outdoor ONT
Foundation for a True Connected Home
IP/Ethernet
Service provider enabled
Consumer managed
Convergence
Multimedia
Broadband - bandwidth
Coax Jacks
Web Enabled Connected Home with Consumer Electronics
The U.S. average is $1000 per year in home Communications expenditures…exceeding That spent on dining out. Movies or other Family entertainment. This number is Expect to double over the next ten years.
New York Times article, 2/14/2010
Capturing a Piece of the Pie
• The Internet » More content, applications, service
developing on Web » Is the only carrier play to provide
the pipe? • 4G broadband Wireless
» More data services on mobile networks
» More home devices communicating via mobile network
» Do wireline exchange carriers lose connected home services to wireless?
• Google Effect » Building its own FTTH networks » Open access architecture » Web service/content driven » Do they become the “glue” for the
connected home?
Enabling Technologies
• ITU-T G.9954 standard • Ethernet over coax or phone line • Latest iteration supports up to 320 Mbps. (v 3.1) • Supports newly created G.hn • Provides QoS and TR69 support • Widely adopted in Telco applications
» Bandwidth for IPTV » Integrated in many IP STB’s » Adapters in retail for PC’s » Coax choice for IPTV » Phone line occasionally for HSIA
HomePNA
The HPNA v3 Over Coax Vision
Enabling Technologies
• Not an open standard » Incorporated into DOCSIS
• Developed by MoCA Alliance • Provides Ethernet over coax 100 Mbps. + • Based on RF 1 Ghz. Microwave frequency using ODFM • Designed primarily for cable
systems » Two-way communication channel » For VoD, DVR type applications
• Widely used in cable set tops • Used in RFoG for two-way
channel • Part of Verizon FIOS • Support PQoS
MoCA
The MoCA Connected Home Vision
Enabling Technologies
• Ethernet over power line » Turns home electrical outlets
into Ethernet ports • Tied to BPL and PLC
» IEEE P1901 » TIA-1113
• AV standard provides up to 200 Mbps.
• Uses adapter or routers in home for connectivity
• Widely available routers and adapters through retail and vendors
• Now supporting G.hn standard for interoperability
HomePlug AV
HomePlug AV Vision
An outlet on every wall and every room Wherever an electronics device is plugged in No new wires, no new outlets Outlet adapter have security/password to protect from intrusion
Enabling Technologies
G.hn • ITU-T G.9960 G.hn standard adopted
• ITU-T G.9961 adoption 2010 • Designed as up to 1 Gigabit
Ethernet connection independent of media (coax, power line, phone line, etc.)
• Can interoperate with any other technology incorporating G.9961
» HomePNA Alliance supporting » HomePlug Alliance supporting » Home Grid Forum promoter
• A number of chip vendors introducing silicon in 2010
• Includes Layer 2 QoS and management layer
Enabling Technologies
802.11n Wireless • Improved performance over b/g with MiMO (multi-streaming modulation technique)
• 230 feet indoor range – optimum conditions
• Operational maximum of 600 Mbps. – useful range today 150 Mbps.
• Uses multiple antennas with SDM (Spatial Division Multiplexing)
• Steps up wireless performance to ranges needed to support HD video
• Many suppliers introducing 802.11n enabled CPE
The Good and the Bad HPNAv3.1 HomePlug
AV MoCA G.hn 802.11n
Bandwidth High: 320 Mbps High: 200 Mbps High: 100+ Mbps High: 300 Mbps High: 150-600 Mbps
Performance Consistently good on coax
Inconsistent at times on AC
Consistently good on coax
Theoretically good Depends on location and structure
Interference No problems Noise/electrical motors can affect
No problems Theoretically no interference
Walls, other devices can affect
New wiring If coax present no – does often require coax re-layout
Electrical wiring and outlets exist
If used for cable RF, coax exists
Can support any type of in-home wiring
Only requires an Ethernet LAN connection
Cost Modest (adapters, chips, etc.)
Slightly high still (adapters, chips, routers)
Modest – in line with HPNA
Initial chips and devices will be higher (volume)
More than 802.11 b/g but greater benefit
Availability Many suppliers, in retail stores
Many suppliers, in retail stores
Widely available but within cable domain primarily
TBD as products are released
Suppliers, retail availability
Commercially Available Home Networking Silicon
Multiple vendors and volume production means lower costs
What We Can Conclude
1. No connected home technology is perfect
2. Each solution has its use and place
3. G.hn may become the best solution to overcome media-specific technologies and proprietary standards
4. 802.11n in combination with other technologies appears destined
5. Bandwidth has improved • As well as QoS • More management
Where to Launch the Connected Home Network
Outside
Inside
Location…Location….Location!
• Access for craft/maintenance • Adjacent to NID • Traditional network termination • More complex to power • Not suitable to use wireless • Ability/flexibility to support the many wiring and service options • Economics
• Requires scheduling for service • Not every indoor location accessible to the network interface • Able to support wireless networking • Allows flexibility to choose product, features and functions to need • Economic: cost of upgrade or replacement
Thinking Beyond Triple Play
• Services and application enabled by smart devices and appliances • Lifestyle and consumer needs creating service opportunity • Evolving public policy and political issues creating demand
» Eco initiatives » Smart Grid to Smart Home » Ties to universal broadband
• If not home phone/POTS service, what then replaces the revenue? • New service models:
» Managed Services » Wholesale services » Open access » Applications within services
Next Generation Medical Care
• Lowering cost of hospital care and stay • Elderly, recovery, medical condition
• Ethernet • ZigBee
• 802.11n • Bluetooth
Smart Grid – Smart Home • Eco-energy management • Smart meter reading • Home Appliance, HVAC and energy control and management
• Ethernet • ZigBee
• 802.11n • Bluetooth
Home Security Services • Alarm monitoring • Video monitoring • Emergency notification
• Ethernet • ZigBee
• 802.11n • Bluetooth
Next Generation Connected Home Router
• Ethernet Interface • Wireless • Home networking interface(s) • Smart device applications interface
A Connected Home Service Model
Smart Meter (utility) Home Security Eco Energy Management Broadband HSIA Video (IPTV or RFTV) Voice Content Hosting
Utility fee or network access Become an “ADT” or network access Subscriber service or network access Subscriber service, open access Subscriber service, wholesale, open access Subscriber service, wholesale, open access Subscriber service, network access
Possible Next Generation Architecture
• Fiber to the premise • Bandwidth for triple play – next generation video (like 3D TV)
» IP or RF TV over coax • Ethernet to inside smart router • Features to support wide range of applications and services for
revenue opportunity • Layer 3 IP intelligence to support:
» Multiple services and service providers » Managed service business model » Wholesale and/or open access business models » Security and partitioning to allow service provider and subscriber
network domains
A New Approach
Low Cost L2 Fiber bridge ONT Smart Router Inside Home
• O/E fiber termination • 10/100/1000 port(s) to home • Layer 2 bridging functions • G.hn interface • Coax: RF overlay, RFoG
• 10/100/1000 WAN • G.hn (or HomePlug or HPNAv3.1) • Zigbee chip • Bluetooth support • 802.11n wireless • Coax (RF or IP) video • 10/100 ports
Ethernet
Drivers for a New Architecture
1. Economics » Lower cost to replace or upgrade a fiber ONT » Allow indoor router to be chosen based on service need
2. Functionality » Functionality where needed in home » Access to home wiring
3. Intelligence » Extends service and OAM to the end device » Ability to see all services at all points in the network » Enables managed services » Enables partitioning and security levels
4. Revenues » Means to capitalize on connected home needs
The Last Hurdle
TDM POTS • Lack of fit into the IP/Ethernet
scheme • Added cost to support in ONT or
router • Lifeline/battery backup burden • Support over FTTx burdens costs
The sooner VoIP is adapted the quicker cost-effective implementation
occurs