Coax

Coax cables exist in more than 85% of North American homes and there are over 400 million installed coax households for both cable and satellite subscribers globally. This results in tremendous market potential for a product that can provide whole-home distribution of personal and commercial digital content.

CWave® UWB was developed as a Multimedia Local Area Networking (LAN) technology to enable longer-range room-to-room transmissions leveraging existing in-home cable networks without sacrificing the QoS required for streaming HD content.

CWave® is the first technology to meet the requirements of the HD industry for whole-home distribution of multiple simultaneous HDTV streams with Trick Play for pause, fast-forward, and fast-rewind capabilities. Independent lab tests have provided conclusive validation that CWave® over coax meets the HD industry benchmark requirement of 1394 S400 application layer throughput across hundreds of feet of in-home coax cable, including multiple consumer grade signal splitters.

CWave® is the first technology to enable simultaneous operation of 1394, used as the backbone technology by HANA, and Gigabit Ethernet, used as a backbone technology by DLNA, on the same coax cable network. The ability to transmit Gigabit Ethernet over existing in-home coax cable saves homeowners the expense of installing costly Ethernet wiring.

CWave® technology coexists with the content and data services already being carried on coax. It also traverses coax splitters, including out-to-out splitter connections, allowing the coax to become a backbone for whole-home content distribution between home entertainment devices. For instance, using CWave® over coax, a television in a bedroom is able to access and play content from a DVR in the family room or a PC in the home office. CWave® technology can also be adapted to provide networking solutions over in-home electrical power and phone lines in future products. The possibilities are endless.