Ask the Experts: Broadband Applications Trends and Evolution Sandy Teger and David Waks Co-Founders, BroadbandHomeCentral.com Broadband Wireless World.

Ask the Experts: Broadband Applications

Trends and Evolution

Sandy Teger and David WaksCo-Founders, BroadbandHomeCentral.com

Broadband Wireless World 2003

April 9, 2003

Copyright © 2003

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About Us

•Sandy– 18+ years with AT&T; multimedia strategy director

•Dave– Founder and R&D director, Prodigy Services Company

•Together as System Dynamics Inc.– Specialists in residential broadband

– Research and write Report on the Broadband Home•Free monthly Internet newsletter: www.bbhreport.com

– Operate BroadbandHomeCentral.com as industry resource– Organized and ran five BBH conferences 2000-2001– Consult for companies affected by residential broadband

•Projects have included strategy, business economics, competitive analysis

•www.BroadbandGurus.com


Our View of the Consumer Market

•Broadband access is the foundation for much of what’s changing in home technologies

• Broadband access and PC networking are growing

• Everything is going digital

• The consumer electronics industry has a huge investment in driving sales of networked appliances

• The worlds of the PC, home entertainment and telephones are starting to overlap and merge

• People are spending their time and money on buying and using “this stuff” because it’s addicting

• You ain’t seen nothin’ yet…


“Broadband Home”

•Broadband access and in-home distribution network– Any kind of access– Any kind of network

•Multiple broadband devices– PCs and emerging devices

•High speed– Megabits: Millions of bits per second– To the home, in the home and from the home

•“Always on” connection– Continuous connection– From the home to the outside world– To the home from the outside - can “see” the home from

the outside

•“Home” and “Office” set expectations– Create desire for capabilities “everywhere”


The Emerging Broadband Home

ISPServices

Cable ModemDSLWirelessFiberSatellitePowerline

BroadbandAccess Home

Gateway


The Promise of Broadband

Work from home as easily as in the office

Personal voice and video conferencing

Digital radio and TV everywhere in the home

Share photos and videos with friends and family

Untethered access

Big jukeboxes of music, movies, TV and games

Control VCRs, AC, lights from anywhere


Media Moms and Digital Dads – Our Story

Connected Devices• Multiple PCs – server,

desktops, notebooks• Nikon digital camera• Sony digital camcorder• ReplayTV & TiVo DVRs• AudioTron networked digital

audio• Creative Nomad MP3 player

Media Applications• AudioStation• Listen.com• Shutterfly• Gracenote CDDB• PhotoSuite• VideoWave• …and lots more

Foundation• Cable modem

service• Structured wiring• Home gateway• Ethernet switches• Wi-Fi• HomePlug


Our Broadband Home Movie

Our Broadband Home

An 8-minute movie showing how we use broadband, networking anddigital consumer electronics technologies in our own home.

Broadband version for cable modem and DSL:www.bbhcentral.com/presentations/BTC2002BB.rm

Narrowband version for dialup:www.bbhcentral.com/presentations/BTC2002NB.rm

See this movie on the Web!

http://www.bbhcentral.com/presentations/BTC2002BB.rm

http://www.bbhcentral.com/presentations/BTC2002NB.rm


Update on Our Broadband Home – April 2003

• AudioTron moved to main audio system in dining room– Connected to network with HomePlug over powerline

• TiVo PVR added in bedroom – will soon upgrade to broadband use – Ethernet connection already behind TV

• Testing Wi-Fi access points and LAN cards– 802.11b (11 Mbps), 11a (54 Mbps), 11g (54 Mbps)– Using AirMagnet: great tool for surveying 802.11 networks and

diagnosing problems

• Testing three kinds of SIP VoIP phones– Stand-alone digital phone – Ethernet interface– Multimedia terminal adapter (MTA) with analog phones– PC-based phone with external handset – Windows Messenger

• About to test PrisMIQ MediaPlayer– Networked digital video, audio, and photos


Top Trends

• Broadband Penetration Keeps Growing

• PC Networking Increasing

• Everything is going DIGITAL

• Networked Consumer Electronics– TVs, stereos, digital cameras, digital video recorders, game

consoles, PDAs, etc. being built to connect and communicate

• “Home gateways” emerging– From simple (cable/DSL router) on up (advanced set-top boxes,

Microsoft “Media Center Edition”, Pioneer “Digital Library”)

• Wireless is BIG– Wi-Fi in home, office, airports, hotels– “Broadband anywhere” for voice—not yet for broadband data

• Increasing Consumer Expectations– Faster, better, cheaper– Cuts across gender, age and class


Everything Is Going Digital

AudioPlayers

VideoPlayers

StillCameras

Camcorders

SatelliteTV

CableTV

BroadcastTV

Telephone

New CE

1992 2002 2012


…Now, Your Thoughts and Questions

• About various types of broadband access

• … compelling consumer applications• In the home, away from home

• … different options for home networking

• … consumer willingness to pay

• … whether hot spots can be a stand-alone business

• … how fast “broadband anywhere” will become real

• … and anything else about consumer broadband

• We don’t have all the answers—but let’s talk!

www.BroadbandHomeCentral.com

dave @ bb-home.com

sandy @ bb-home.com

www.BroadbandGurus.com

18 Beaver Ridge Road, Morris Plains, NJ 07950-1901

(973) 644-4739 Fax (973) 538-6003

Thank You!

For More Information:

http://www.broadbandhomecentral.com/

http://www.broadbandgurus.com/

Ask the Experts: Broadband Applications Trends and Evolution Sandy Teger and David Waks Co-Founders, BroadbandHomeCentral.com Broadband Wireless World.

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