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| Home Gateway Deployment to Hit 30 Million by 2009 With the deployment of managed home gateways in North America and Western Europe rising from 16.2 million in 2007 to an estimated 34 million in 2009, the device is now a market reality, says the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI). "The home gateway is not simply a router, but a service enabler", explains Milan Erbes, ambassador for the HGI and Business Development and Standardization Manager for DS2. "The HGI focuses on the home gateway itself, but encompasses also the Home Network Infrastructure Devices as well, providing guidelines on remote access, parental control in the home, performance metrics, quality of service (QoS) and security." Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, added: "The deployment of home gateways is accelerating hand-in-hand with the rollout of triple play services. Service providers can benefit from the deployment of managed, QoS-enabled home gateways as value-added differentiators, for remote diagnostics and troubleshooting applications, and to dynamically provision new value-added services as customers see the need." Among others, key issues that the HGI will be addressing in the coming months include, the support for the SOHO environment, energy saving, extended QoS, diagnostics, Home Network Infrastructure Devices support, the Home Gateway and Network Termination two-boxes approach for Next-Generation Networks, Home Gateway resilience, IPv6 and the evolution of support to IPTV and IMS. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |