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With the increasing availability of high-speed backbone networks and broadband access technology, vast family-oriented applications are changing our daily lives. These have been posing challenges to traditional communication, entertainment and many other aspects of family lifestyles by providing family users multiple, convenient and economical applications with fresh experiences.
Meanwhile, operators are shifting their focus from providing bandwidth channels into providing offerings for families. With effective management, operators can significantly raise their ARPU. All of these indicate that we are entering a new era of the smart home.
The family multimedia business includes entertainment content, voice communication service, monitoring business, security, etc. Through the multimedia access equipment, the server provides users with HD video broadcast, somatic game, internet application, interactive advertising, videophone, family security.
Family business diversification and differentiation development engendered operators that provide more services as well as develop family broadband access equipment to meet increasing request. Accordingly, the controllable family gateway becomes the core of the digital home control equipment.
Smart home businesses cover three types of services. First are communication services, which meet each family member’s communication and exchange demand, mainly including broadband internet access, voice telephone, video phone, instant communication.
Second are entertainment services, which meet the demand for entertainment leisure by mainly incorporating IPTV, the network game, audio and video on demand, family storage and sharing.
Finally, there are control services, which meet the needs of an intelligent household by providing video monitoring, intelligent home, family security, and other features.
As the core of a smart home, the home gateway or residential gateway is defined as an intelligent network interface device located at the consumer’s premise. It provides the means for residential users to access internet services delivered to home, and also to access different services offered by the various smart devices located within home. Essentially the home gateway device provides the necessary connectivity features to enable the consumer to enjoy the advantages of a networked home.
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