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MoCA – Officially The Fastest Growing Home Networking Technology
Infonetics Home Networking Devices
Reports from the big market research firms are starting to confirm what should be obvious to home networking enthusiasts – that MoCA coax networking is the fastest growing home networking technology around. Here’ s the Instat take:
MoCA experienced the greatest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46% over the 2007 through 2010 time period.
and here is what Infonetics had to say:
The small but fast-growing MoCA coax-Ethernet adapter segment posted the highest revenue growth in 2010, up 93%
Given that MoCA is the technology behind new Multiroom DVR and Over-the-Top VOD services from DirecTV, Verizon FiOS, Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, etc… it’s not a stretch to imagine that MoCA may start catching up with WiFi in US Pay TV households.
From a recent Cisco router announcement:
According to industry research group IDC, only 39% of US homes have wireless, while only 11% are using Wireless-N technology.
MoCA will quickly surpass 10M US homes sometime this year so the prospect of catching and passing 11N is a very real possibility. Passing 11N may have been unimaginable just a few years ago, but MoCA coax networking may now be the best kept secret in home networking.
Rogers 8642 HD PVR
Rogers just lunched a new HD PVR model 8642 manufactured by Cisco on April 19 2010. The set-top box features dual tuners with hard disk drive storage ranging from 160GB to 500 Gigabytes; 1 GHz tuning which could allow Rogers to expand network bandwidth to provide additional services; MPEG-4 (H.264) decoding support; support for tru2way, MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) and DLNA technologies (Digital Living Network Alliance) which may or may not be implemented by Rogers in the future.
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MoCA Powers Cisco’s New Cable Boxes
OK, I know this is an ad but it does give a good glimpse of what’s coming soon to a MoCA-enabled cable box near you. Specifically, the ability to play DVR-ed content on non-DVR cable boxes in another room! So now, instead of having to rent multiple DVRs for each room of the house, you’ll just need one living room DVR and a standard digital cable box in each bedroom. Each bedroom will be able to access the main DVR like it was there under the TV. The Cisco guy also talks about other great new features that will be added once your cable boxes can talk to each other via the MoCA network.
Tivo also has a similar feature that transfers shows between Tivos in different rooms.
