 Home Networking and Digital Home Network Market Analysis
Entertainment Networking and Emerging Markets Drive Connected Home as Core Home Networking Market Matures
The home networking market has undergone a significant transition in recent years. Ten years ago home networking was a PC enthusiast hobby. Today, tens of millions of consumers have home networks using wired and wireless technologies. The transition has been driven by many factors, the most important of which are broadband adoption and the growth in multi-PC households; the next few years will begin to usher in the age of converged networks across the PC, CE, communications and control spheres.
This study examines all segments of the home networking and networked entertainment market. The report includes sections on the home networking hardware and CPE market (routers, residential gateways, adapters/NIC and embedded connectivity, bridges); media networking (with analysis of every networked entertainment device category such as TVs, DVDs, PVRs, set-tops, portable devices, audio/video systems, and game consoles); network storage for the home; media servers (STB, PC and CE media servers are examined); home network silicon, and home network management software.
It also contains in-depth, country-level analysis for Asia-Pacific and Western Europe regions. The report examines the unique dynamics of China, India, Japan, South Korea, the UK, France, Germany and other countries. It features country-level home network forecasts as well as forecasts for home gateways and routers in these countries.
What Does This Report Answer?
- How will emerging IP-centered content distribution models impact the integration of home networking connectivity into CE devices?
- Which devices will be adopted as the home server in the future?
- What will be the key networking technologies that emerge as the market for networked entertainment and communications grows?
- How will HomePlug, MoCA, UWB and HomePNA fare in light of the emergence of 802.11n silicon and hardware in 2006 and beyond?
- Will DLNA and UPnP serve to create a standardized platform for communication between disparate devices in the networked home?
- How will home network storage evolve as more choices, including consumer NAS, come to market?
- How are emerging countries such as China and India adopting home networking technology?
- Is the router giving way to the residential gateway as the primary in-home CPE?
Who Needs This Report?
- Home networking hardware vendors
- Home networking and communications silicon vendors
- Broadband service providers
- Software and ingredient providers for the networked home
- Media and content providers interested on the networked home on their markets
- Investment and financial analysts
- Mobile operators interested in video game markets
Section 1.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 The Home Network Becomes Crucial
1.1.1 Home Networking Overview
1.2 The Consumer and Home Networking
1.2.1 Home Network Ownership by Age and Income
1.2.2 Home Networking Ownership and Number of PCs
1.2.3 Device Ownership of Home Network Owners vs. Non-Owners
Section 2.
TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDS
2.1 HOME NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDS
2.1.1 Wi-Fi
2.1.2 Powerline
2.1.2.1 HomePlug
2.1.2.2 Universal Powerline Association
2.1.3 UWB
2.1.4 Coax Networking Technologies and Standards
2.1.4.1 Multimedia Over Cable Alliance
2.1.4.2 1394 over Coax
2.1.5 What About Plastic Optical Fiber (POF)?
2.2 Discovery and Software Layer Standards
2.2.1 Universal Plug and Play
2.2.1.1 What About Device Profile for Web Services?
2.2.2 Zeroconf
2.2.3 Jini
2.2.4 Digital Living Network Alliance
Section 3.
CORE NETWORKING HARDWARE
3.1 The Challenges of the Core Home Networking Market Over the Next Five Years
3.1.1 Shrinking Number of First-Time Consumers of Home Networking Hardware
3.1.2 New Users of Home Networking Will Need More and More Hand-Holding
3.1.3 Continued Price Erosion and Rising Support Costs
3.1.4 Difficulty In Creating New Media Networking Market
3.2 Overall Market Forecast
3.2.1 Home Routers, Residential Gateways and Switches
3.2.1.1 Home Router, Gateway and Switch Forecasts
3.2.2 Adapters and Bridges
3.2.3 NAS
Section 4.
ENTERTAINMENT NETWORKING:
4.1 The Entertainment Network: Home Networking’s New Focus: Video Distribution
4.1.1 Apple Brings Networked Entertainment to Mass Market Consciousness
4.1.2 Video Game Devices Become Networked Set-Top Boxes
4.1.3 Innovative Distribution Technologies Starting to Emerge
4.1.4 Content Explosion
4.2 The Internet Video To TV Marketplace: A Snapshot
4.3 What About the Service Provider and Networked Video?
4.3.1 Applications for Pay-TV Providers and Home Networking
4.3.1.1 Multi-Room Video/DVR
4.3.1.2 Internet VOD
4.3.1.3 Gateway/ NID Connectivity and Whole-Home Mesh Network
4.4 Public Internet “Service Providers”
4.5 What About Music: The Market for Networked Audio
4.6 Networked Audio Drivers and Inhibitors
4.6.1 Drivers for Networked Entertainment
4.6.1.1 Growth of Digital Music
4.6.1.2 Large CE Companies Move into Networked Entertainment
4.6.1.3 Wireless MP3 Market Proliferating Concept of Networked Audio
4.6.1.4 Digital Distribution (and Networked Entertainment) Taking Over Physical Media
4.6.2 Market Inhibitors
4.6.2.1 Lack of Success of Early Products in Market
4.6.2.2 Closed Systems May Turn Off Consumers
4.6.2.3 Networking Products Inherently Difficult Compared with Non-Networked Devices
4.6.2.4 Media Server Price Points Are Too High for Mass Market: Can Storage Prices Drop Far Enough?
4.7 Forecasts
4.7.1 Media Networks by Region
4.7.2 Networked Media Devices
4.7.3 Networked Media LAN Connections
4.7.4 Networked TV LAN Connections
4.7.5 Networked DVD LAN Connections
4.7.6 PVR Network Connections
4.7.7 Networked Set-Top Box LAN Connections
4.7.8 Network Digital Cameras Wi-Fi Connections
4.7.9 Network Video Camcorder Wi-Fi LAN Connections
4.7.10 Networked Game Console LAN Connections
4.7.11 Wi-Fi Connections on Portable Game Consoles
4.7.12 Wi-Fi Enabled Portable Media Players
4.7.13 Home Audio LAN Network Connections
4.7.14 Digital Media Adapter Shipments
4.7.15 Non-Service Provider STBs
4.7.16 What About Media Servers
4.7.16.1 Windows Home Server
Section 5.
COUNTRY ANALYSIS
5.1 Asia Pacific
5.1.1 Japan
5.1.2 China
5.1.3 India
5.1.4 South Korea
5.1.5 Australia
5.1.6 Singapore
5.1.7 China
5.1.7.1 IGRS
Section 6.
COMPANY LIST
Section 7.
ACRONYMS
GETTING CONTENT BEYOND THE COMPUTER MONITOR
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SCOPE OF STUDY
SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY
NOTES
Tables
- Home Networks by Region, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Network Device Shipments by Category, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Networking Revenue by Category, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Networked Media Device Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked Connected Media Device Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Core Networking and Media Networking Home Network Device Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Network (Home Networking and Media Networking) Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Network Connections by LAN Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Networking Hardware Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Netgear Mix of Home Routers to Residential Gateways , By Region, 1H 2007
- Home Gateway, Router, and Switch Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Gateway, Router, and Switch Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Bridge and NIC/Adapter Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Bridge and Adapter Connections by LAN Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home NAS Units by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Gateway Shipments by Region, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home Gateway Network Connections by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wireless and Wired-Only Router Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Bridge and NIC/Adapter Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Home NAS Revenue by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Networks by Region, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Networking Device Shipments by Category, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Networking Device Revenue by Category, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Network Connections by LAN Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked TV LAN Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked DVD LAN Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Non-Service Provider PVR Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked STB Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Digital Still Camera Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Digital Camcorder Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked Game Console Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Handheld Game Console Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Portable AV Player Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Portable Music/MP3 Player Shipments, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked Music Reciever and Home Theater Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Digital Media Adapter Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Non-Service Provider STBs (i.e. Apple TV, Vudu), World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Server Shipments by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Server Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Third-Party Windows Media Center/Server Aftermarket Software Shipments and Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Embedded Media Server Software Shipments by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Embedded Media Server Software Revenue by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Microsoft Media Center PCs (MCE for XP and Vista), World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Centers with CableCARD and Satellite Cards, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Windows Home Server Edition PC Forecast, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Asia-Pacific Home Networks by Country, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Australia Gateways and Home Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- China Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Hong Kong Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- India Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Japan Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- New Zealand Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- South Korea Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Thailand Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Western Europe Home Network Installed Base, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Austria Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Belgium Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Denmark Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Finland Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- France Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Germany Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Greece Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Iceland Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Italy Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Luxembourg Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Netherlands Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Norway Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Portugal Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Spain Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Sweden Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Switzerland Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- UK Home Gateway and Router Shipments, World Market: 2005 to 2012
Charts
- Home Network by Age
- Home Network by Income
- Home Net Ownership by Number of PCs
- Type of Home Network
- Device Ownership of Home Network Owners vs. Non-Owners
- Total Home Networking Hardware Revenue
- Netgear Mix of Home Routers to Residential Gateways by Region, 1H07
- Home Gateway, Router, and Switch Shipments
- Home Gateway, Router, and Switch Revenue
- Bridge and NIC/Adapter Shipments, World Market: 2003 to 2012
- Worldwide Bridge, Adapter Connections by LAN Type
- Home NAS Units by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Media Networks by Region, World Market: 2003 to 2012
- Media Networking Device Shipments by Category, World Market: 2003 to 2012
- Media Networking Device Revenue by Category, World Market: 2003 to 2012
- Media Network Connections by LAN Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked TV LAN Connections, World Market: 2003 to 2012
- Networked DVD LAN Connections, World Market: 2003 to 2012
- Networked PVR LAN Network Connections 2005 to 2012
- Set Top Box LAN Network Connections, World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Digital Camera Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Digital Camera Network Connections, World Market: 2008 to 2012
- Networked Game Console LAN Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Connections on Portable Game Consoles, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Wi-Fi Enabled Portable Media Players Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked Music Reciever and Home Theater Network Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Networked Media Adapter LAN Connections, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Non-Service Provider STBs (i.e. Apple TV, Vudu), World Market: 2005 to 2012
- Media Server Shipments by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Embedded Media Server Software Shipments by Type, World Market: 2004 to 2012
- Windows Home Server Edition PC Forecast, World Market: 2007 to 2012
Figures
- Phases of the Networked Home
- Important Industry Players
- The DLNA Interoperability Stack
- Software Utility to Enable Novice Users to Install and Manage Their Networks
- Internet Set-Top Box with P2P Delivery
- NeuLion
- Sony NetJuke
- Sony’s First Wi-Fi Digicam, DSC-G1 Wi-Fi
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Number of Pages:
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Number of Tables, Charts and Figures:
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Release Date:
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