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Home Networking

What's changing the way consumers watch TV - from enabling multi-room DVR and ensuring the highest performing over-the-top (OTT) video streaming to extending the Wi-Fi connection in the home or allowing the fastest in-home game play?
Three words: Entropic's MoCA Silicon.

Connected home entertainment technologies are in constant flux; especially as consumers are equipping their homes with novel broadband-enabled TVs, Blu-ray players, OTT devices, tablets, smartphones and game consoles, and using them to stream Internet services offered through Netflix, VUDU, Boxee and Hulu. As the popularity for streaming services has grown, so too has the demand for bandwidth to handle multiple streams of HD-quality video. So if consumers want content and access - their way - they need Entropic's technology. Entropic is the most disruptive technology in home entertainment, today - serving up enough bandwidth to make service providers' networks rich and robust, which is providing consumers the freedom to watch any home entertainment programming in any room, on any device and at any time, without latency, lag or excessive buffering.

MoCA 2.0

Already used in tens of millions of set-top boxes around the globe, Entropic's MoCA silicon has become the de facto connected home entertainment solution throughout the United States. And co-founder and leading driver in the MoCA revolution is Entropic Communications, who introduced the fastest performing MoCA silicon in the world - MoCA 2.0 in January 2011. MoCA 2.0 has been designed to meet the multimedia delivery requirements of today, while supporting the bandwidth, reliability, and quality needs of the most demanding of home entertainment services of tomorrow.

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Armed with 400 Mbps in its basic configuration, and scalable to support 500 Mbps Turbo mode and 800 Mbps /1 Gbps in channel bonded modes, MoCA 2.0 is the highest performing home networking solution available today; delivering more than two times the speeds of other home networking technologies.

Furthermore, Entropic's MoCA technology is poised ride the wireless tablet wave. As a complementary technology to Wi-Fi, Entropic's MoCA silicon delivers increased performance and a higher quality connectivity between multiple Wi-Fi access points within a home. By serving as the backbone data architecture for the in-home Wi-Fi network, MoCA technology can extend Wi-Fi coverage and optimize consumers' whole-home wireless entertainment experiences. This provides the best possible wireless performance and quality-of-service assurance to confidently stream and access high-definition videos and multimedia content. Thanks to Entropic, consumers no longer have to accept "best effort" wireless performance.

When you boil it down - Entropic's MoCA based silicon is changing the way consumers engage with TV services; giving them greater access and control over how, where and when they enjoy their whole-home entertainment content.

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