New report says IPTV is driving home networking market

May 01, 2006 - The push by telecom carriers to deliver IPTV services is causing a massive shift in the home networking market, with telcos poised to invest heavily in technologies that will distribute IPTV and other multimedia services throughout customer homes, according to a major new report from Heavy Reading: ‘Multimedia Whole-Home Networking: Solving the IPTV Distribution Dilemma’.

The emergence of IPTV is reinvigorating the home networking sector, the research company declares.

According to Rick Thompson, Heavy Reading senior analyst and
author of the report: “While early home networking initiatives were driven by end users, the whole-home networking model envisioned by most service providers puts control of home network resources firmly in the hands of the network operators themselves. This dramatic shift in perception will have huge and permanent ramifications for the entire home networking supply chain."