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A high percentage of the homes are connected via coax infrastructure (cable TV). The Q-LAN system utilizes this existing infrastructure as a networking system and to deliver other entertainment and information programming with high QoS. The underlying technology supports the MoCA standard and provides the vital elements necessary to distribute TV quality entertainment into and throughout the home at high speed (270 Mbps), high quality of service (QoS), and the innate security of a shielded, wired connection combined with state of the art packet-level encryption. Coax is designed for carrying high bandwidth video. The Q-LAN networking products are based on an innovative platform technology that allows very high-speed and reliable communications between coaxial home outlets without the need to modify the home coax system and without interfering with existing cable TV services. Q-LAN Broadband Access solutions use coaxial cable infrastructure to deliver "last miler" connectivity for high-speed broadband access to single-family homes and MDUs. Our solutions are designed to work on passive coax networks. This means that the fiber node in HFC or PON network terminates at the last active device in a coax wide area network. This termination point is typically within 300 meters of a customer premises. For active or passive coax distribution plants extending up to 1.2 km, cable operators can use a repeater which increases coverage while delivering the same throughput performance. Q-LAN's solutions are based on the MOCA technology and provide efficient communications between an access node such as a fiber termination in the basement of an apartment building and the cable outlets in each apartment throughout the building. Our technology is based on the Entropic chipset and has been designed to address the very difficult communications environment of the coax home network architecture. The coax home system is designed for a "vertical" communications to and from the cable system head-end to the devices connected to coax outlets in the home, such as TV sets and Set- top boxes, and has in the past primarily been used for the delivery of cable TV, data (cable modem) and more recently, VoIP services. The in-home coax architecture has been specifically designed to prevent inter-outlet communications through the use of splitters with high port-to-port isolation. This leads to a highly dispersive PHY channel over which it is difficult for typical digital communication systems to operate. The historical inability to address these issues associated with the in-home coax architecture has contributed to the creation of "islands" of digital entertainment within the home. Q-LAN In-home Networking technology is a full-mesh, peer-to-peer network. It overcomes the inherent limitations of home coax cabling and enables high-speed "horizontal" communications between the outlets in cable home, providing room-to-room connectivity. This is accomplished through a combination of an adaptive PHY that optimizes the signal modulation in order to maximize the channel capacity of the in-home coax network and a unique MAC protocol that maintains very low latency independent of network load by allocating channel resources without contention or retransmission. Q-LAN makes connected home entertainment possible by creating a network which taps into the 4 gigabits per second (Gbps) of usable bandwidth above the video band, between 860-2000 MHz. The Provisioning and Network Management is a central part of Q-LAN Access Solutions. It enables operators to gain a competitive time-to-market and service cost advantage as they roll out broadband services. Large amounts of new devices to account for within their network; each device is configured, managed and maintained individually. Q-LAN Provision and Network Management System reduce the operational burden of service activation, quality control; upgrades and general day-to-day operations. Updates are transparent to the end user with no service interruption and virtually hands-free. The system fully automates the installation, provisioning, maintenance and monitoring process of the network devices. Monitoring of the network devices is done through Q-LAN Cluster Controller, adding carrier-grade security.
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