Residential gateway announcements - Technicolor, Motorola, Broadcom, Marvell, and Jungo

Here are several residential gateway-related news releases in the past week or so:

• Technicolor will provide its TG587nv2 to O2 UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telefónica;
• Motorola's 7600 Series of ultra-broadband VDSL2 gateways will be deployed by Swisscom to provide high definition (HD) video, high-speed data and voice-over-IP (VoIP) to its subscribers.;
• Broadcom announced the availability of its BCM6818 Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON)-based residential gateway system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution. Broadcom notes that this SoC represents one of the first and most complete hardware and software solutions currently available for enabling advanced GPON-based residential gateway services that include Wi-Fi, voice over IP (VoIP), Ethernet switching and IPTV.
• Marvell and Jungo announced the integration Jungo's OpenRG™ residential gateway software and Marvell's AVANTA™ Application Gateway - on-a-Chip (GoC). With the new residential gateway reference platform, service providers and network operators will have easier access to always-on home services and value-added applications while increasing average revenue per user.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Marvell acquires DS2 intellectual property and assets

Marvell's acquisition of the intellectual property and assets of DS2 has rolled up the last of the big independent powerline networking chipset vendors. First, CopperGate acquired the HomePlug assets from Conexant (and then itself got purchased by Sigma Designs), and Atheros purchased Intellon. It's a trend that signifies the importance of well-integrated networking solutions that may leverage at least a couple of networking technologies, including Wi-Fi and "no-new-wires." Second, these larger vendors are much closer to the end-user manufacturers, as they're building integrated solution for things like set-top boxes, modems, residential gateways, etc., and it's a sign that significant growth is coming in the embedded market for powerline networking solutions. Finally, with some corporate structure wrapped around the powerline assets, maybe we'll see some adult conversations occuring around how to finally end a ten-year+ standards battle in this market.