At CES Las Vegas this week, powerline communications and HomePlug-compliant ICs supplier Intellon Corp. and ultra wideband (UWB) and wireless USB (WUSB) chipset solutions provider Wisair together have demonstrated the distribution of high-definition (HD) multimedia streams throughout the home. The demonstration used Intellon’s HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo powerline technology and Wisair’s 480 Mbps UWB technology.

In this demonstration, Intellon’s HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo technology serves as the in-home network backbone, transmitting HD content over powerline from a media server to an Intellon-enabled Wisair HomePlug bridge that transmits the HD content to a laptop equipped with a Wisair wireless USB adapter.

According to the research group TDG, global home networking will grow from 35 million homes in 2004 to over 160 million by 2010. Consequently, TDG also believes that the number of network-capable devices will increase dramatically, rising from 108 million today to a staggering one billion Internet and LAN-friendly gadgets in 2010.

“Wisair and Intellon technologies and products are very complementary” said Amir Freund, Wisair vice president of marketing. “Wisair’s UWB technology extends Intellon’s ‘No New Wires’ paradigm by enabling the wireless distribution of HD content within rooms.”

“The home of the future will incorporate different networking technologies for the distribution of multimedia content”, said Philip Poulidis, Intellon’s senior director of marketing. “Wisair’s technology is ideally suited as a wire replacement solution, and when coupled with powerline networking as the in-home backbone, it creates an ideal in-home entertainment network.”

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