NETGEAR WPNT834 Supplementary Manual page 2

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Today, Service Providers' residential Customers are using their broadband data
networking services in a wide variety of applications, from basic data networking
via the Internet to highly advanced applications involving real time audio/video,
VPN for their home office and home automation. Most get started with simple
computer networking for Internet and e-mail. Then they grow over time to add
more applications to this basic Digital Home Network. All these applications are
fueled by the wide availability of broadband network services.
Worldwide today there are roughly three hundred and fifty Million (350M) homes
with broadband connections. Monaco and the Republic of Korea have digital
broadband penetrations as high as ninety-three percent (93%). Eight other
countries have penetration rates exceeding eighty-five percent (85%). Broadband
data networking growth continues at an annual rate of sixty-five million (65M).
In contrast, narrowband (dial-up) data networking is shrinking to as low as five
percent (5%) of connected homes. The bulk of the applications, along with your
customers' resulting Digital Home equipment needs, however, fall into a handful
of pre-configurable packages that collectively serve an extremely high fraction
(95%+) of your residential Customers.
Today, customers and service providers alike are furthermore hounded by time
consuming tasks that are generated by:
• The huge and complex set of options available for every aspect of data
networking and consumer electronics
• A lack of common standards for networking and product setup, interoperability
and remote management
• Few if any pre-documented and pre-tested setup specifications for bouquets
of networking and consumer electronics equipment that are known to be
interoperable with your network services as well as each element of the package
These factors both frustrate and discourage all but the most tech-savvy and
tenacious consumers. But worst of all, they generate high levels of support calls
to Service Providers and discourage customer subscriptions to premium priced
and vertical services, thereby denying Service Providers the lower costs and higher
revenues they would otherwise garner.
In this white paper, we will examine:
• Popular applications that your residential Customers are using, in order of
increasing complexity
• Revenue generating opportunities for Service Providers supplying these
applications
• Customer Premises Equipment – core packages by application
• "No New Wires" customer premises interconnection methods