Entropic, Actiontec to deliver MoCA 2.0 enabled home routers

CES 2011, LAS VEGAS, USA: Entropic Communications Inc., a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment, and Actiontec Electronics, a leading original equipment manufacturer to service provider markets, are partnering to develop next generation customer premise equipment based on Entropic's complete MoCA (Multimedia over Coax) 2.0 solution.

This new class of products will offer service providers unprecedented levels of network throughput, using the subscriber's existing coax cables for delivering new video and data services into and throughout the home.

Actiontec and Entropic have a long and successful history of delivering MoCA 1.0/1.1 enabled broadband routers, which create a whole-home network used to distribute broadband data access and enable multi-room DVR/VOD service. With a MoCA 2.0-enabled broadband router, consumers gain an even higher performance home network that can be used to deliver faster tiers of Internet access speeds, support more simultaneous HD and 3D video streams, and deploy new network architectures - all with the same high-quality and robustness that everyone has come to expect from a 'no excuses' MoCA network.

"Service operators continue to improve the speeds of their access networks and the in-home network needs to keep pace in order to take advantage of all this increased bandwidth and provide it throughout the home," said Brian Henrichs, chief business development officer, Actiontec. "We will continue to partner with Entropic to bring to market performance leading solutions, such as MoCA 2.0 home routers, that ensure service providers have abundant bandwidth to deliver innovative next generation services and applications."

"Entropic and Actiontec will bring yet another first to service providers with the introduction of a MoCA 2.0-enabled broadband home router," said Vinay Gokhale, senior vice president, Marketing and Business Development at Entropic Communications. "It is through our long-standing relationship and collective understanding of both service providers' and consumers' home entertainment needs, that we can bring to market products that ensure a future-proof home entertainment network."

With support for backward interoperability to MoCA 1.1/1.0 products, an Actiontec MoCA 2.0 enabled broadband router can easily be used to upgrade existing subscribers or give new subscriber homes the ability to more than double their available bandwidth versus MoCA 1.1 products. MoCA 2.0 provides 400 Mbps of net MAC throughput which can be used on LAN networks and also supports 500 Mbps of net MAC throughput for two node applications.