The Only Home Entertainment Networking Standard In Use By All Three Pay TV Segments—Cable, Satellite, IPTV Dr. Anton Monk CTO, MoCA Co-founder / VP Technology, Entropic Communications
The Organization Established in January 2004 by the most respected service providers, OEMs, CE vendors and chip suppliers in the digital entertainment distribution value chain. 100 certified products (STBs, Internet – TV adapters, ONTs, gateways, routers, et al) Only home entertainment networking and connectivity standard in deployment by all three pay TV segments – cable, satellite and IPTV/telco – worldwide. More than 50 million nodes in the field. Incorporated into DLNA’s Interoperability Guidelines. Included in IEEE P1905 and 802.AS standard On retail shelves now.
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Courtesy Comcast Anything that can connect will connect! Whole Home DVRs Connected TVs Connected Game Consoles All numbers in Millions Source: Parks Associates, Home Networks for Consumer Electronics (2009). Trends in Connectivity
2010 U.S. Television Households
Projected MoCA Market Share 97 Million Pay TV Households
MoCA 1.0 and 1.1 MAC rate (net throughput): 175 Mb/s (MoCA 1.1) PHY rate: 270 Mb/s Operating frequency 850 – 1500 MHz Flexible spectrum usage – 50 MHz coexisting with cable or satellite Support for 16 nodes Quality of Service (QoS) Prioritized QoS – differentiated service for video, voice and gaming Parameterized QoS – reserved bandwidth MIB/SNMP and TR-069 Management interface MoCA 1.1 Annex Expanded operating frequency of 500 MHz—1500MHz
MoCA 2.0 Two performance modes Baseline Mode 400+ Mbps MAC throughput 700 Mbps PHY Rate Enhanced / Bonded Mode 800+ Mbps MAC throughput 1.4 Gbps PHY Rate “Turbo” mode Point-to-point configuration that allows 25% boost in throughput Energy savings Sleep and standby power modes Address power consumption in entire network Fully backward interoperable with MoCA 1.0/1.1 Protects investment in current equipment. Expanded operating frequency from 500 – 1650 MHz
Home Networking Requirements Rework this graph to fit slide Future Capacity with MoCA 2.0 Network of Today Network of Tomorrow 0 Mbps1 Gbps 0 Mbps200 Mbps 0 Mbps150 Mbps 400 Mbps MoCA 2.0 Baseline DATAVIDEO
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The Only Home Entertainment Networking Standard in Use by all Three Pay TV segments — Cable, Satellite and IPTV