Texas Instruments marks the latest silicon maker to join the Multimedia over Coax Alliance, a group that holds the keys to some advanced home networking technology that delivers data and even high-definition television signals over existing home coax networks at speeds up to 270 Mbps.
Although MoCA founding member Entropic Communications was the only silicon company to be associated with the Alliance during its early phases, several others have since joined. In addition to Entropic and TI, other chipmakers to join the MoCA cause include Conexant Systems, STMicroelectronics, BroadLight Inc., and Octalica Ltd., among others.
The Alliance, which counts Comcast Corp., Cox Communications and EchoStar Communications among its members, also announced Monday that more than 1 million MoCA “nodes” have been deployed by systems vendors and service providers.
Such nodes are deployed in support of multi-room digital video recorders, Ethernet-to-MoCA bridges, residential gateways, and even optical network terminals used for fiber-to-the-home networks. Verizon, which markets the FiOS TV offering with Motorola-made set-tops, is one of the first service providers to deploy MoCA-powered devices.
