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Products & solutions
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Q-LAN home networking products are based on Entropicīs 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. Our technology 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 physical 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-LANīs 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 hardware that optimizes the signal modulation in order to maximize the channel capacity of the in-home coax network and a unique protocol that maintains very low latency independent of network load by allocating channel resources without contention or retransmission.
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