The Standard for Home Entertainment Networks Overview

The Organization Established in January 2004 by some of the most respected, brand name, consumer broadband service providers and OEMs in the world. Use existing coaxial cabling—installed in 90% of U.S. households No new wires, truck rolls or interference with other technologies and mediums. Published field tests: More than 110 Mpbs net throughput in 97% of all outlets. Complementary to wireless—extends wireless backbone in home. More than 50 members, and counting. Membership is OPEN. More than 20 certified products (STBs, ONTs, gateways, home routers, ECBs) Recently established Contributor-level membership. Only wired home entertainment networking standard in full deployment (Verizon’s FiOS).

3 Storage  Applications  Networking  Storage  Applications  Paradigm Shift in Consumer Electronics Explosion of content Mass market deployment of DVR and HDTV Mass market deployment of DVR and HDTV Service provider Triple-play bundling (IPTV/TelcoTV, Cable MSOs) Service provider Triple-play bundling (IPTV/TelcoTV, Cable MSOs) Analog to digital conversion

4 The Connected Home According to Parks Associates’ report, “Networks in the Home: Connected Consumer Electronics” (2006): An entertainment network is a PC connected to at least one consumer electronic (CE) device, or multiple interconnected CE devices such as a whole-house DVR system. There will be 30 million U.S. households with a connected entertainment network by Connected entertainment will be the heart of the development and business opportunities in the digital home, and will be driven by video service providers (telco, cable and DBS) and CE and home networking manufacturers.

5 Growth of Entertainment Networks

6 Multi-room DVR STBs (U.S.) Cumulative Multi-room DVR STB Shipped (#M) Multi-room DVR Set-Top Boxes Shipped, Annually (#M) © 2005 Parks Associates DVR STB Shipped Annually (#M) Cumulative DVR STB in US Households

Oil And Water Do Not Mix Until now, all LAN technologies were designed for data. Companies are trying to “shoehorn” them into home entertainment networking applications. But, video behaves differently over different mediums. And all competing wired (and some wireless) standards/technologies are also specifying coax for video.

8 Square Peg, Round Hole Scenario

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11 Summary Coax is the medium for video. Installed in 90% of U.S. households. MoCA is the standard for home entertainment networks over coax. Benefits appeal to service providers and consumers equally. Independently validated net throughputs. Reality not theory. Growing membership. Deep and wide portfolio of certified products In full deployment RAND licensing environment Roadmap to retail channel and end consumer. Consumers will tolerate a dropped cell phone call, but they will not tolerate latency in their video.

12 MoCA Is In The HOUSE! Node Device Node Device WAN Point Of Entry NORMAL 2-WAY CATV PATH SPLITTERJUMPING 3:1 Splitter 2:1 Splitter 3:1 Splitter SPLITTERJUMPING Node Device Node Device Node Device Node Device Node Device Node Device Node Device Node Device Node Device Node Device