Eight companies, including some of the largest names in electronics, are planning to jointly develop technology that allows multimedia content to be sent around the home over standard TV antenna cabling.
WSJ.com (sub. req.): The companies are coming together under the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MoCA)…it plans to build on technology developed by a start-up, Entropic Communications, which allows coax that was designed to carry standard TV signals to transmit digital data at more than 20 times the speed of many home networks.
Companies in the alliance include both cable giants Comcast and satellite TV provider EchoStar. Other backers are networking leader Cisco, TV set-top box maker Motorola, electronics retailer RadioShack and Japanese consumer-electronic giants Matsushita and Toshiba.
More announcements on this will follow at CES later this week…
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