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Home Networking 101 By Jean-Francois Numainville, TheWorldJournal.com 
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With the constant slimming price for computer and all electronic components in general, they have become within the reach of most people. And most suburb homes are now overloaded with televisions, VCRs, DVDs, computers and stereos of all kinds. As much as it is good for owners to have such equipment at their disposal, it is frustrating to see that it is impossible to link them together to get the most out of those high tech devices. Imagine if you could play your favorite MP3 downloads with your state of the art stereo instead of those anemic computer speakers. But you would have to move your computer in the living room, meaning a lot of frustrations because you would have to untangle the jungle of wires connected to your computer. Or how about plunging to television sets to the same satellite dish? You would be forced to watch the same channel on both sets. But the arrival of home networking will save the day by allowing all of the apparels in your house to communicate with one another. The concept behind this new technology is to create a wireless domestic network capable of transmitting digital and analog signals. Already, many Americans and Europeans firms are well advanced in the marketing process to come up with a final version of a home server with a planned commercialization in the next few months. To deliver such promising performances, the home server manufacturer are using a rather basic system that was originally develop for cordless phones. More than just some kind of a centralized remote control simply capable of turning equipment on and off, the server will capable to broadcast data like audio video content - to a receiver attached to a given apparel. Then, the terminal will process the transmission (e.g. a television can play a film while it is downloaded from the Internet to your computer). Furthermore, the home server will give new capabilities to all of the electronic devices in your home. Because it will be Internet ready and geared with a powerful hard disk, the concept of the traditional computer will be changed. All the devices linked with the server will be capable of accomplishing most of what a current PC is doing (surfing the web, running applications). But until all the electronic components will all be network capable, the good old computer won't become obsolete. For the moment, only a few small firms are competing in the blossoming home networking market. But the big players are discovering the opportunities in what some have called the next lifestyle evolution after the Internet: multimedia content producers Universal and Time-Warner as well as high tech manufacture Microsoft and Sony are salivating at the future opportunities of that technology. As for the people willing to camp outside of the nearest computer shop to be the first enthusiasts to get a hand on one of those beauties: hold it for a few months until it gets available. © January 19, 2002 |
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