Digital Home Market Worth $85 Billion
The transformation of most conventional consumer electronics devices such as game consoles, DVD players, TVs and portable media players from stand-alone devices to network-connected ones using both wireless and wired IP communications technologies will fuel overall market growth, according to ABI Research.
Service providers are also a catalyst in this market, as IPTV providers such as Verizon, France Telecom, PCCW and AT&T utilize home network technologies for video distribution, while others look to home networking as a way to extend data services without having to rewire the home. Residential gateways and networked set top boxes are becoming standard requests as service providers look for new revenue streams based on IP and converged networked services.
The total number of network connections shipped into the connected home will grow from 247 million in 2005 to over 861 million by 2011, according to the research. Wi-Fi will become the most common of the connection technologies, as consumers look to connect home servers, gateways, networked consumer electronics and portable devices over the media network.
The emergence of enabling technologies such as 802.11n for wireless video distribution, HomePlug AV and MoCA as alternative multimedia network backbones, and DLNA media server and device interoperability software will also drive market growth.
Source: ABI Research
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