Date: 06/10/2009

New chipset from CopperGate delivers multimedia application over powerlines

CopperGate has announced that its HomePlug AV CG2110 chipset delivers video, audio, data, and voice applications over powerlines, and offers a high-definition multimedia entertainment including triple-play services and IPTV throughout a home.

CopperGate claims it is the first semiconductor company to support multiple home networking standards (HomePNA for coax and phoneline and HomePlug AV for powerline).

The key features of AV CG2110 chipset are,

Provides up to a 200 Mbps PHY bit rate, and up to 110 Mbps effective throughput.
Optimized to stream high and standard definition TV (HDTV and SDTV), VoIP.
The CG2110 Chipset contains an integrated HomePlug AV media access control (MAC) and PHY transceiver that interfaces with an external integrated analog front end (AFE). The chipset implements OFDM, channel adaptation, FEC, and noise mitigation schemes.
Compliant with the HomePlug AV 1.1 specification and coexists with HomePlug 1.0.

Michael Weissman, Vice President, North American Marketing says,
"Using existing wires is the smartest way to network a home. Now, CopperGate can deliver digital broadcast content over every wire inside the home - coax, phone lines and now with the HomePlug AV CG2110 - electrical wiring in the home."

"The CopperGate HomePlug AV CG2110 chipset delivers better throughput at an aggressive price. It is an excellent solution for European service providers who want to provide IPTV solutions over powerline. The solution works well streaming YouTube and Hulu content, downloading Netflix videos, serving IPTV media content, connecting home computers or game consoles and efficiently enabling VoIP throughout the entire home network."

"Our HomePlug AV chipset is the first step in building our powerline business, and is especially important as we prepare for the next generation G.hn solutions that are due to arrive in 2010. Experience in HomePlug will help CopperGate become the leader in G.hn by adding powerline expertise to our strong coax and phone know-how."

For more details visit www.copper-gate.com