Date: 10/12/2012

Chipset from Marvell can stream content over powerline, co-ax and twisted-pair

ITU-T G.hn chipset from Marvell gets HomeGrid Forum certified. G.hn is an international standard for home networking over any wire (power lines, coaxial cables and twisted pairs) that can operate at data rates up to 1Gigabit/second.

“With HomeGrid Forum certification of Marvell’s G.hn chipset, Marvell's customers can develop systems with high performance, flexibility and reliability for streaming multimedia content across multiple platforms in next-generation networked homes,” said Winston Chen, vice president of the Smart Home Business Unit at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. “Marvell has always been deeply committed to interoperability among G.hn silicon vendors, and certification is a huge step forward in fostering market growth and enabling more G.hn deployments globally. It also brings Marvell one step closer to its goal of providing the widest possible range of communications choices for the connected lifestyle.”

Marvell's G.hn chipset is available to its customers as part of the GE-DW360F reference design, which includes the Marvell 88LX3142 G.hn digital baseband processor, the Marvell 88LX2718 G.hn analog front end, the Marvell 88E1510 Gigabit PHY, a built-in pass-through power socket, a complete TCP/IP protocol stack and a flexible software API. The chipset is an ideal solution for distributing bandwidth-intensive and real-time applications like HD IPTV, VoIP, gaming, and multi-room DVR.

“Marvell is a very hard-working member of the HomeGrid Forum, contributing enormously to our overall success. The company has made great efforts to push its G.hn development ahead and we are pleased to congratulate its team on becoming the first to achieve G.hn silicon Certification,” said Matt Theall, President of the HomeGrid Forum. “We also applaud the collaborative approach Marvell has taken with fellow HomeGrid members in their G.hn development and at all of the plugfests. We look forward to announcing certified systems based on the Marvell silicon soon.”

“This first HomeGrid Forum G.hn chipset certification is an important milestone in the use of ‘no new wires’ technologies for the connected-home,” said Liam Quirke, analyst at IHS. “Service providers and OEMs can now begin to roll out mass-market solutions based on the standard that allow unprecedented ‘no new wires’ interoperability, aiding the delivery of cloud-based content to more screens in the home.”