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The growth of PC and online
households and the flourishing home networking market have created a new playing field for
companies looking to deliver advanced products and services to the home. The need for a
level playing field, however, which provides choices to consumers and requires the
delivery of disparate services and technologies, remains a formidable challenge. This need
has infused momentum into the residential gateway concept as the need for a device that
can make sense of the vagaries of protocols and information both in and outside of a home
becomes more acute.
This heightened need in regard to a gateway device has been evident in the past few
months with the creation of a new consortium, the Open Service Gateway Initiative, and new
gateway products targeted at a variety of service providers, including utilities, cable
companies, and the telcos. However, this activity has also created differing notions of a
residential gateway, and the recently released second edition of Parks Associates’
The
Residential Gateway Report takes a close look at the various classifications
of a residential gateway.
"The residential gateway (RG) concept officially came into being in late
1995," says Hongjun Li, Director of
Research at Parks Associates and chief author of the
Residential Gateway Report.
"A group of companies created an informal consortium called the RG Group and released
a white paper entitled The Residential Gateway."
The RG concept is aimed at creating a single, standardized, intelligent,
cost-effective, and flexible network interface device between external access networks and
in-home networks/end-user devices. The major purposes for developing the RG are to answer
the needs of convergence and facilitate consumers’ subscription to numerous new
services competing for entry into the home. Since the release of the RG Group’s white
paper, the concept has attracted attention from multiple industries and standards
organizations.
At the same time, with a variety of products going to market, different schools of
thought have surfaced concerning what the term "RG" means and what can be called
a residential gateway. Parks Associates’ report explores in detail the origin of the
concept, different views of residential gateways, the implications of residential gateway
development to multiple industries, the current status of residential gateway development,
and other strategic issues.
In order to accommodate the different views from multiple industries in regard to the
residential gateway, Parks Associates’ report introduces a new RG classification
model. Li says that the new model will also help industries evaluate the
development paths of residential gateways.
Parks Associates holds the view that a full-service whole-house gateway represents the
ultimate and yet most challenging objective of residential gateway development. In order
to overcome the many obstacles to the development and deployment of the whole-house
gateway, Parks Associates proposes that the market introduction of the whole-house RG
should begin with single-family new housing starts.
For more information about residential gateways and the report, please contact
Parks Associates at sales@parksassociates.com
or 972-490-1113.
About Parks Associates: Parks Associates is an
internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing
in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks
Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to
small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research,
custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service
subscriptions.
The company's expertise includes new media, digital
entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home
control systems and security.
Each year, Parks Associates hosts executive thought
leadership conferences CONNECTIONS™, with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), and CONNECTIONS™ Europe. In addition, Parks
Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in
conjunction with the CONNECTIONS™ Conference series.
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