Wouldn’t it be great to get rid of the rat’s nest of connecting wires behind today’s home entertainment centers and work stations? Today’s homes are filled with a wide range of digital entertainment devices including:

• Plasma displays
• Personal video recorders
• Digital set-top boxes
• Home theater projectors
• DVD players
• MP3 players
• Digital camcorders
• Video game consoles

Consumers are interested in connecting these devices to seamlessly share multimedia content. Pulse~LINK’s CWave® wireless solution provides a wireless equivalent for 1394, Ethernet, and HDMI cables, offering consumers unprecedented wireless connections including wireless HDTV and unmatched speeds for wireless data transfer and multimedia connectivity. The same CWave® UWB chipset that provides room-to-room HDTV and multimedia connectivity over in-home cable networks simultaneously enables a high data rate wireless network within each room connected to the coax backbone. The introduction of CWave® to digital homes offers consumers real-time wireless streaming of HD video, data, games and web searching between peripheral multimedia devices. CWave’s latency is significantly less than one video frame, enabling real-time wireless streaming between PCs or video game consoles and home theater displays in addition to other multimedia devices.

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.

The CWave® PL3100 Chipset is the first product to provide true whole-home coverage with guaranteed QoS. Other wired technologies fail to provide connectivity to devices that are not conveniently located near a wired connection. Other wireless solutions fall short on its ability to provide high data rates with guaranteed QoS across multiple rooms in a home. Using the same CWave® PL3100 Chipset, hybrid (both coax and wireless simultaneously) connectivity can be achieved. This means that multimedia devices connected to the CWave® coax network can communicate with multimedia devices on the CWave® wireless network, creating a Whole-Home Multimedia Network. With the additional ability of selecting HD content anywhere in the home with “Trick Play” capabilities (pause, fast-forward, fast-rewind), Whole-Home Interactive HD™ is achieved with the CWave® PL3100 Chipset. Having the hybrid ability for whole-home coverage from the same chipset, the guaranteed QoS can be maintained when multiple HD video streams move between a coax and wireless medium. Now consumers can place their multimedia devices where they want them throughout the home. The interface may vary, but the performance and chipset remains the same.