DENVER - Mitsubishi International and partner Firecomms says they'll demonstrate a new home network with a transmission rate of 100 Mb of Ethernet content. The trick, the company says, is a network entirely comprised of Polymer Optical Fiber. That increase in capacity is a big jump from existing home capacity say experts. The technology means web pages that load faster, video with fewer breaks and potentially more resolution.
DENVER - Mitsubishi International and partner Firecomms says they'll demonstrate a new home network with a transmission rate of 100 Mb of Ethernet content. The trick, the company says, is a network entirely comprised of Polymer Optical Fiber. That increase in capacity is a big jump from existing home capacity say experts. The technology means web pages that load faster, video with fewer breaks and potentially more resolution.
"With data rates of up to one Gigabit, and assured quality of service to every device in the residence, POF is the most robust technology for 100 Mbps Optical Ethernet and 250 Mbps Optical FireWire in the home. These features of POF are especially advantageous for emerging IPTV implementations and other triple play services. POF is an established medium in industrial and automobile networks due to its high reliability in even the most rugged environments," says Hugh Hennessy, Firecomms vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.
POF provides numerous advantages to home builders, installers, content providers, and consumers alike. With "garden hose" connectivity, POF is quick and easy to terminate enabling it to be easily installed in the wall cavity, along baseboards, under carpet, and-due to its immunity to interference-even next to electrical cabling, making its installation quicker and more flexible and cost-effective than other technologies.
Because it's optical, polymer fiber is completely immune to electrical noise. That means existing copper wiring will not interfere with data passing through POF, so it can even be installed next to electrical cabling. Even other existing networks or wireless systems in the house cannot interfere with data passing through the POF cable. This is very
important for multimedia data transmission, in which the quality of the signal could be negatively impacted by external noise.
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Troubleshooting is quick and easy as POF uses an eye-safe visible red light. In fact, it's the only interconnect technology where the signal can be seen at both ends.
