Hybrid Solution Enables Good Quality Video Streaming

( 1 Jul 2007 )

Sigma Designs has launched its UWB-over-Coax home networking video streaming solution. Available immediately, the Sigma Windeo Mini-PCI Coax/Wireless Development Kit enables a whole home networking and video streaming solution between high definition consumer electronics products over already existing coaxial cables throughout a home. A hybrid solution, it also offers a wireless in-room connection so HD products can be located anywhere in a room for true mobility.

"Sigma makes it possible for consumers to have the best wired and wireless technologies in their digital homes," said Hung Nguyen, Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Products Division at Sigma Designs.

Sigma's UWB-over-Coax solutions are powered by the Sigma's Windeo chipsets and allow multiple HD video streaming contents with 1080p resolution format to be distributed to multiple rooms over a coaxial cable network. Sigma's technologies also enable the video content to travel up to 100m (328ft) over the IP multicast protocol. For wireless video streaming in the same room, the Windeo chipset transmits multiple HD video contents over-the-air to multiple HDTVs and other high definition products simultaneously.

Today's digital home networking requires communication technology with high bandwidth to distribute multiple high definition contents simultaneously, highest Quality of Service (QoS), long range capability to cover the whole home and wireless connectivity to achieve mobility and convenience. UWB technology with hybrid coax/wireless offers an alternative to other wired and wireless technologies with regards to these requirements.