Home Network Market Bigger in BRICs than US & Europe

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• Different Architecture: Ethernet over Coax from Head End to Residence
   
• DOCSIS Is Overkill for MDUs

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Sigma Design’s HPNA EoC May Have Edge in India  

In all the whoop-di-do over the coming versions of HomeGrid (G.hn), P1905, MoCA 2.0, HomePlug AV2 and the new HD-capable versions of Wi-Fi, the oft-overlooked standard has been HomePNA but that might not be for long. HPNA, as HomePNA is affectionately called, uses coax wires in the home.  

The HPNA crowd is courting cablecos in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICs) where coexistence with DOCSIS is not required because DOCSIS is not widely deployed there. 

There’s a version of HPNA called “HPNA Fast EoC” that is well-suited for use by pay TV operators that use coax to connect to an MDU (multiple dwelling unit) and coax within the MDU to individual residences. Such configurations are very prevalent in the BRICs where most people live in MDUs and also to a lesser degree in Europe. There are 200 million to 600 million pay TV subscribers in the BRICs that could use home networking, according to Sigma Designs, which is the sole producer of HPNA chips.  

HPNA Fast EoC in the BRICs 

Cablecos in the four BRIC countries typically have a different network architecture from the US and Europe. It consists mainly of a cableco, not a telco, running fiber or coax to an MDU and then Ethernet-over-coax within the MDU for broadcast. The cablecos use Ethernet-over-coax for the entire network — from head end to the residence.  

Most incumbent telcos in the BRICs have an ancient copper wire network that is not capable of delivering multiple channels of pay TV or high speed broadband, typically $15 a month for 250 Kbps to 512 Kbps.  

The EoC architecture is much less expensive, especially in the head end, than what Western countries deploy. Prices have to be kept low because currently pay TV is eight to 10 channels and goes for about $5 a month.  

Sigma’s version of HPNA Fast EoC has remote diagnostics and management. Sigma said it’s the same physical chip as the HPNA chip that’s used in the States but has different firmware. 

It estimates there are already about 100 million residences in India that have a cable TV subscription, slightly more than the US. The satcos have about 25 million subscribers in India. Estimates are that China has about 200 million cable TV subscribers, double the US or Europe, Sigma says.  

The subscriber number is growing rapidly as the middle class in BRIC countries expands. It’s a big market although fewer HPNA chips are used — one for the MDU and one for each residence, which typically has only one TV set or broadband modem.  

Sigma says EoC from the head end to the home is better than the telcos’ DSL or the cablecos’ DOCSIS because the pay TV companies’ need for speed is limited by capital constraints and low subscription rates. 

HPNA seems to be off to a faster start in India than HomePlug EoC but HomePlug EOC appears to have the jump in China with several orders, based on interviews with executives at home networking chipmakers.  

Sigma says the home networking market in Brazil and Russia is similar in architecture and cost constraints but is much more fragmented than in China and India. Very little consolidation has taken place in these markets, leaving a large number of cablecos with small footprints.

 

HPNA’s Momentum

 

In addition to the opportunities in the BRICs, the HPNA coax version for in-home networking has momentum elsewhere. 

AT&T, the largest telco in the Western world has standardized on HPNA, which has led a number of other telcos in the US and Canada to follow suit, such as Bell Canada, Telus and the US’ third largest telco CenturyLink. However, HPNA lost Verizon and most cablecos in the US and Europe to MoCA because, unlike HPNA, MoCA can coexist on the same coax cable as DOCSIS broadband. 

Verizon does not use IPTV technology to transmit TV broadcasts to or within the home so it is more like the cable TV companies because it uses the same pay TV technology that they do. 

HPNA’s large installed base is growing as the telcos expand their pay TV subscriptions. Now it wants to become the major player in the BRICs with their very different network architectures. 

Sigma Designs is developing a combination chipset that will support both HPNA and the coming HomeGrid, giving HPNA customers an upgrade path.

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CE Device Makers Want to Offer Live Linear TV

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• Their Internet-Connected Trojan Horses Are Already in the Home
• tart of a Flood of New Pay TV Services  

Smart TVs, Blu-ray players and game consoles may be the Trojan horses to the pay TV industry. Game console makers like Sony and Microsoft are looking for more content to enhance the value of their boxes and are trying to put together deals that will license them to offer live TV.  

The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony is negotiating to get content licenses to let its PlayStations, smart TVs and Blu-ray players offer live TV content, a direct threat to the pay TV companies. The Sony Blu-ray players and PlayStations are already connected to the Internet, and many Sony TVs are too. It’s expected that Sony and all other TV makers in the developed countries will soon only offer sets that can be connected to the Net.  

IPTV Versus Broadband TV

High-speed broadband will allow Sony, Microsoft and other device makers to stream live TV directly to those devices. It is virtually the same technology — IPTV — that the telcos are using to deliver their live TV channels.  

IPTV permanently sections off some of a home’s broadband bandwidth so it can only be used for pay TV. That makes the pay TV signal more secure (less chance of piracy) and allows for a guaranteed quality of video — so important for HD. The sectioning is controlled by the pay TV service, which must also be the customer’s broadband service provider. TV over broadband, on the other hand, is like the OTT services such as Netflix that millions of subscribers are using. It flows over the open Internet and is more subject to piracy and video quality issues than an IPTV signal.  

The move to live TV over broadband will increase the demand for universally available broadband, faster broadband speeds to handle the streams of HD video and the demand for high-speed home networks. It will benefit the pay TV companies’ broadband operations, makers of broadband and home networking gear and chip makers whose technology goes into that gear.  

The threat from CE device makers could be very serious. Sony has sold about 18.1 million PlayStation 3 consoles in the US, according to NPD Group, and all other CE device makers will be sure to follow with live TV — including Samsung, LG and Vizio and probably Apple, Panasonic and Toshiba. A deal with Sony opens the floodgates because other CE device makers will line up to get live TV rights. One advantage the CE device makers have is that they can sell nationwide, even worldwide.  

The deal that Microsoft already has allows for some live TV channels on its Xbox 360 but only if the user is also a subscriber to those same channels with their pay TV company.  

The satco Dish is seeking to offer live TV over consumers’ broadband connection as part of its Blockbuster OTT service. 

Smart TVs still only account for a small part of the installed TV base, but every Blu-ray player by specification has an Internet connection, and most TVs being sold these days are smart TVs since their prices are dropping so fast that many consumers will buy one now rather than wait.  

Threat & Opportunity 

The Journal says Sony has approached Comcast’s NBCUniversal (what a conflict of interest!), Discovery and News Corp’s Fox. Media companies like these have to be careful not to anger their cash cows — the existing pay TV companies that pay them billions. 

One way the pay TV companies could fight back is by offering their own OTT service nationwide — but then so could the TV networks. The two major telcos, AT&T and Verizon, operate nationally but only for mobile phone service.  

The pay TV services could end up getting most of their revenue from their dumb broadband pipes to the home and support for the home network and devices attached to it.  

The point is the technology that will allow live TV to be delivered over existing broadband and home networks already exists and is installed in millions of homes. Technology is like a breach in the levee — impossible to stop once it starts.  

Sony and the content companies are not talking, of course, but you know that they, the pay TV companies and other CE device makers are thinking long and hard about the possibilities for TV over broadband and its consequences. They also know that if the established TV networks don’t supply the content, then third parties will. Google is showing this with its effort to create 100 channels of professionally done videos on YouTube. 

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Entropic’s c.LINK EoC Being Deployed in China & Europe

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- Fiber-to-the-Basement and c.LINK Broadband to the Residence
- From Savonlinna, Finland to Tianjin, China
- LG Uses c.LINK EoC in TV Sets for Hotels’ Broadband  

MoCA developer and chip maker Entropic Communications has been selling an Ethernet over coax (EoC) technology called c.LINK Broadband Access to cable operators in Europe and China and to hotels that want to bring broadband to every guest room without running another wire. c.LINK is derived from Entropic’s MoCA implementation and so has many of the same attributes, such as being able to coexist without conflict on the same wire with a cableco’s pay TV signal.  

Entropic’s c.LINK EoC-on-a-Chip to Bring Broadband to Millions of Chinese Homes  

Entropic has upped its focus on China, a country that needs low-cost EoC technology to deliver broadband within the thousands of multiple dwelling units (MDU) that have 20 to 200 or more residences. To that end, it has signed deals with China-based network equipment makers H3C Technologies and Jiangsu Yitong High-Tech, according to Sean Martin, Entropic’s senior director of marketing.  

Entropic’s most recent deal in Europe was with the telco Blue Lake in Finland for boxes from equipment maker InCoax, whose Gigabit over Coax Access devices use Entropic’s EoC technology. The EoC devices are installed in existing coax networks in apartment houses and buildings that offer high speed broadband, IPTV, IP-telephony and video-on-demand. InCoax has also installed its devices at other rural area telcos.  

Martin said that the market for EoC access technology is going to be a significant opportunity. China is happening now because of the Chinese government’s efforts. China could, within a decade, have over 100 million broadband subscribers, perhaps as many as 300 million.  

That’s another 100 million or so homes to which the entertainment industry could soon be directly delivering its goodies. North America and Europe are each estimated to have about 100 million homes that could get broadband — so the Internet-connected home entertainment market is already in the process of doubling.  

China has made significant investments in evolving its cable plant from analog, one-way communications for delivering videos to the home, to a digital two-way network that will make possible broadband and interactive television.  

Entropic’s c.LINK is derived from its MoCA technology, but unlike MoCA, Entropic is not obliged to license c.LINK technology to another chipmaker, as Broadcom has done with MoCA.  

The networks that need EoC have a “deep fiber” architecture where the fiber is run deep into the network — to the MDU, in fact. A pedestal in or outside the MDU is the termination point for the fiber that comes from the service provider. The coax carries broadband, TV and telephony from the pedestal to the residences. c.LINK is the broadband technology to the residence, not DOCSIS. c.LINK is only for coax, not for fiber.

 

Several larger tier-one operators in Europe are investigating EoC and plan trials for technology assessments and business planning, Martin said.  

South Korea’s consumer electronics maker LG is using c.LINK technology in TVs it sells to hotels that adapt existing coax to carry both broadband and pay TV on the same wire to guest bedrooms. An attribute that MoCA and c.LINK both have is they can coexist on the same coax cable without interfering with each other. It saves the hotel from running an Ethernet cable to each room.  

Rival HomePNA cannot exist on the same coax cable with the cablecos’ pay TV signal. 

China’s State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) is pushing the pay TV companies to upgrade their networks and is helping to fund them. Its goal is to have 40 million more broadband subscribers by the end of 2014. Currently about 40% of pay TV homes are connected with an analog network and about 60% with digital. SARFT wants to bring them all up to two-way digital so they can offer broadband.

 

Wins

In China, the network gear for c.LINK is currently being made by H3C, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HP (yep, Hewlett Packard), and by Jiangsu Yitong High-Tech.  

H3C has developed gear called EPCN 2.0, a broadband system that supports an optical to coax platform for Internet protocol (IP) delivery.  

H3C said it’s evolving its existing EPCN product line to include high radio frequency transmission to service passive cable networks in SARFT’s Next Generation Broadcasting requirements. The c.LINK Broadband Access solution, based on Entropic’s field-proven MoCA 1.1, is a single-chip. It is a cost-competitive solution for operators that performs 60% faster on coax than current c.LINK implementations and enables higher throughput with additional channels.  

Liu ZhiLing, marketing director of H3C Technologies, said that as fiber moves closer to the end user and the cable infrastructure becomes an all-passive network, “Entropic’s c.LINK technology becomes even more ideal for our new EPCN platform. It provides a performance roadmap based on the MoCA standard and helps us to better service and meets fiber-to-the basement requirements now and for the future.”  

There is a c.LINK deployment at Tianjin Broadcast & TV Network in a city in the northeast of China with 10 million people, most of whom live in MDUs. That makes a home networking chip maker’s mouth water, eh, and the content producers drool!  

Jiangsu Yitong High-Tech is the company that handled the development and deployment of Entropic’s solution in the Tianjin network. Wang ZhenHong, chairman and general Manager of Yitong said, “The Entropic Access EoC solution is proven and has a technology roadmap to meet the cable operators’ needs for advanced services over coax.”  

Another Entropic win is at Guangzhou Digital Media Group in Guangzhou, China’s sixth largest city with about 12.7 million people. It has two million subscribers including 170,000 broadband subscribers and 20,000 IPTV subscribers. Its goal is 200,000 broadband subscribers and 100,000 IPTV subscribers by year-end.  

Martin estimates that approximately two to three million broadband lines using EoC technology will be deployed in China in 2011.  

Pushing Beyond Europe & China 

India could follow, Martin said, but has a poorly wired infrastructure and no government backing. Brazil is promising but is still in its infancy. However, it’s a possible candidate because its economy is stable and growing. Two large Brazilian pay TV services have inquired about deploying EoC technology to MDUs. Some c.LINK installations have been made in Russia by makers of c.LINK network gear.  

c.LINK’s advantages, Martin said, include its field proven MoCA technology, low deployment cost, the outstanding properties of coax in carrying video reliably and the ability to coexist with the pay TV signal on the same wire.  

c.LINK’s Advantages 

Martin lists these advantages for c.LINK Ethernet over coax.  

Coexistence:

• Designed from the beginning for coax and to coexist on coax with all services
• DOCSIS, analog & digital broadcast, DBS and ODU

Reliability and Ubiquity:

• c.LINK uses a pre-equalized and bit-loaded OFDM modulation scheme
• Automatically and continuously adapts to noise and echoes
• Results in PER better than 10-5 by spec, typical 10-6
• Maximizes throughput for any channel

Throughput:

• 165 Mbps of MAC throughput shared with all clients
• c.LINK access does not need or rely on retransmissions  

Quality of Service:

• Supports prioritized QoS and parameterized QoS
• Parameterized QoS ensures great customer experience by reserving actual bandwidth required for the stream  

We asked Martin about the feasibility of EoC in densely populated cities in the States that have lots of MDUs, such as New York.  

“We believe there are opportunities in the US for MDU deployments. Carriers are actively looking for product solutions,” he said.  

“Our market and technology leadership in MoCA is being translated into powerful solutions for the EoC market in China,” said Tom Luan, VP and general manager of Entropic’s China and Hong Kong operations. He said Entropic is leveraging its years of investment in MoCA’s advanced home networking technology and applying the same know-how and expertise to building high performance solutions for the Ethernet over coax broadband access market. 

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HomeGrid Gang Aims at Lucrative SmartGrid Market

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SmartGrid and smart energy are not our purview, but the HomeGrid gang’s interest in that market perked our ears because if its efforts succeed it will add credibility to their cause and reduce the cost of HomeGrid chips by increasing their manufacturing volumes.  

SmartGrid is touted as being a way for power companies and consumers to manage and control their electrical usage — especially as to when electrical devices like washers can operate at the lowest cost. Only the power companies can operate a SmartGrid network that’s outside the home. However, a telco or cableco can operate a SmartGrid network within the home that uses powerline, coax or copper wire to connect to appliances.  

Chano Gomez, co-chair of HomeGrid Forum’s marketing working group, said the SmartGrid market is small now but is predicted to be potentially larger than the multimedia home network market. Many wired and wireless technologies are competing for the SmartGrid. HomeGrid is the newest challenger.  

Gomez, who is also director of new business development at HomeGrid chipmaker Lantiq, presented HomeGrid’s case at the recent Smart Home Energy Management Summit. He told us that HomeGrid, also known as G.hn, has four significant advantages in the SmartGrid market:

 1. It was designed to be a SmartGrid platform, not a function that was added after the fact. HomeGrid developers were thinking about implementing it on a SmartGrid network from the very beginning. As an example, he said, devices with HomeGrid were designed to go in and out of sleep very quickly, saving money.  

 2. HomeGrid operates over copper wires and coax as well as over the expected powerline, which lets telephone and cable TV companies operate SmartGrid in the home.  

 3. Combining volumes from multiple market segments (multimedia networking and SmartGrid) will make pricing for HomeGrid more competitive.  

 4. HomeGrid was designed from day one to support up to 250 devices per box — although HomeGrid vendors can offer fewer.  

To implement a full SmartGrid network, the power company will have to be involved because only it knows what electricity costs at anytime within the day.  

Looking Ahead at HomeGrid

 

As we previously reported, Gomez said that semiconductor pre-certification work events are being held this month and next. They are not the final certifications, which are still being developed with chip makers knowing and working on their designs along with the development of the collateral. 

 

Four chipmakers have committed to making HomeGrid chips: Sigma Designs, Lantiq, Marvell and Taiwan’s Metanoia Communications. Metanoia makes VDSL2, GPON and ADSL2+ chips that go in STBs that telcos install. Chipmakers Xingtera, Kawasaki and TangoTec are members of the HomeGrid Forum but have not yet announced chips.  

The chip certification tests will be followed next year by interoperability tests for devices to make sure they can operate together on the same network.  

It takes a lot of work and a lot of time to develop a standard.  

Looking Ahead for Lantiq’s HomeGrid

 

In general, Lantiq and other HomeGrid members are aiming at selling to telcos. It’s a long-term process because the telcos are irrevocably marrying a home networking standard and investing tens of millions of dollars in deploying it. Competition from the cablecos puts the telcos under more pressure than ever. They cannot afford to make a wrong move in home networking.  

HomeGrid members say they have built in functions that the telcos insist on, such as advanced remote management and diagnostics for the gear that goes into the subscriber’s home.  

Gomez said that several system vendors are now designing systems that use Lantiq chips and expect those systems to be available by the second quarter, possibly before. He said every telco worldwide is looking for high performance networks for use in the home and on their external networks to offload wireless communications — tablets, smartphones and such.  

As for Ethernet over Cox (EoC), Gomez said Lantiq finds it an interesting market as a possible evolution of DOCSIS. He pointed out that HomeGrid’s support for up to 250 devices will help in the MDUs that EoC is intended to support. He would not say more about Lantiq’s plans for EoC despite our pleas.

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4 Smartest Buys in Smart TVs Under $1,000

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It’s a TV buyer’s paradise, as prices of TVs are plummeting as set makers and retailers fight for market share and survival.  

MSNBC.com selected four 47-inch and larger smart TVs as the best for under $1,000. All are 1080p, of course, and they use three TV technologies: LED-lit LCD, fluorescent-lit LCD and plasma. The ones we have listed are smart TVs — all have apps like Netflix and support OTT streaming.  

•  Panasonic TC-P50ST30 50-inch plasma for wide viewing angle, excellent picture uniformity, good color and full HD active 3D. Available from Amazon for $829.98 including shipping.  
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•  Samsung PN51D6500 51-inch plasma for excellent picture uniformity, wide viewing angle, slim 1.5-inch depth and full HD active 3D. It’s $999.84 plus shipping at nextdaypc or $1,055.00 including shipping at Amazon.  
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•  LG 47LW5600 LED-backlit 47-inch LCD for its IPS panel which allows a wider viewing angle than many other LED LCDs, 120Hz refresh, 1.75-inch depth and passive 3D, edge-lit LED with regional dimming. It sells for $958.77 including shipping from Amazon.  
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•  Toshiba 47TL515U LED-backlit HDTV for wide viewing angle IPS panel with matte finish for low room light reflections, extra slim 1.1-inch depth, 120 Hz refresh plus scanning backlight, passive 3D and Wi-Fi. Sells for $899.99 from Paul’s TV at Amazon with free shipping.  
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Please notice that Sony was not included in MSNBC’s list of best buys under $1,000.  

Warning! Prices may be reduced further between now and year-end.  

Warning! We expect one of the major makers of TV sets to throw in the towel by the end of 2012. 

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Quantenna First with 4x4 MIMO Chipset with Next-Gen 802.11ac

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• Future-proofs Smart TVs, Gaming Consoles, Blu-ray Players, STBs
• Reference Design Ready Now  

Quantenna, maker of robust Wi-Fi chips for distributing multiple streams of HD video in the home, has future-proofed itself by being the first to announce a chipset that will be based on the draft of the coming 802.11ac. 

Quantenna says its 802.11ac chipset will incorporate its 4x4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology and beam forming to offer service providers and retail consumers 2 Gbps wireless routers and other devices. 

It has reference designs available for box makers that want to get gigabit products to market in 2012. 

Wi-Fi 802.11ac will support gigabit speeds and operate in the 5 GHz band. It expands on the broad frequency bands and multiple-antenna capabilities of 802.11n and is backward compatible with 802.11n. It’s expected to replace 802.11n in home network devices. ABI Research says the dominant Wi-Fi version by 2014 will be 802.11ac. Another version of Wi-Fi called 802.11ad delivers even faster data rates in the 60 GHz band.  

The 802.11ac version is due out in early 2012, but like its 802.11n predecessor, it may arrive late. That will prompt box makers to use draft 802ac rather than lose would-be buyers by waiting months or even years for the final standard — what happened with 802.11n.  

Quantenna’s move with 802.11ac removes any future bottlenecks for streaming higher resolution videos in the home — including 3D and the hoped-for Quad Full High Definition (4K), which, at 3840 x 2160 pixels, doubles the 1080p high-definition television standard in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions.  

Quantenna’s 802-11ac draft chipset is called QAC2300. It said its 802.11ac implementation with its 4x4 MIMO technology is optimized for retail consumer electronics, including wireless routers, access points and high-end consumer electronics. Now let’s just add smart TVs, game consoles, Blu-ray players and smart TV adapters.  

Quantenna said its QAC2300 two-chip solution includes a new 4x4 MIMO digital baseband chip that supports the latest 802.11ac specifications, combined with their currently-shipping radio frequency (RF) chip, which already supports 802.11ac.  

Quantenna said the chipset “extends its lead over other Wi-Fi competitors who have yet to ship 4x4 MIMO technology.”  

According to CEO Dr Sam Heidari, Quantenna is differentiating its two chipsets as one for service providers — the existing QHS71x — and one for retail products — the new QAC2300. He said the new chipset “reinforces our leadership role in high-throughput wireless technology and extends it into new retail and consumer electronics market segments.” 

There seems certain to be a big market for 802.11ac chips in a world that seemingly can’t get enough broadband speed to feed its insatiable hunger for video content. In-Stat said 802.11ac device shipments will be nearly one billion by 2015.  

Quantenna’s reference design, available now, is based on the current draft of the IEEE 802.11ac standard and includes schematics, layout and design guidelines. It uses the company’s existing RF front end chip, which already supports 802.11ac. It provides a design for boxes with 2 Gbps dual-band, dual-concurrent operation (5 GHz 802.11ac plus 2.4 GHz 802.11n) using PCI-e or dual RGMII interfaces.  

Quantenna will be showing prototype products based on the new chipset at CES in January.  

Looking Ahead

Heidari said the company does not intend to let Broadcom or any other maker of MIMO Wi-Fi chipsets take any deals as Broadcom did two years for the Cisco box that AT&T announced at Telco TV. AT&T is reportedly looking at newer MIMO Wi-Fi technologies to implement in future devices including its whole home DVR. As for the Wi-Fi receiver that AT&T announced, an external Wi-Fi adapter has to be plugged into the whole home receiver.  

Quantenna chips have proven performance that’s been tested by many, Heidari said. Its customers include Motorola Mobility, which has landed Norway’s Altibox with the Quantenna chips; an all-but-announced deal with Telefonica, the world’s third largest telco that last week invested in Quantenna; Samsung, for an unspecified project (maybe a TV set with Quantenna built-in?); Sagemcom; Swisscom; STB maker AirTies; Netgear and Dataset.  

More deals with both STB makers and with service providers are expected to be announced in this quarter and 2012’s first quarter.  

Consumers would love to hear that they could buy TV sets, gaming consoles and Blu-ray players with Quantenna chip sets, but we could not pry that information out of Heidari. 

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