Pioneering the Ubiquitous Home Network New AMD Silicon Solutions for Phone Line Networking

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The introduction of AMD’s first home networking controller will change the way consumers interact with their personal computers. AMD’s new single-chip controller is fully compliant with the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance’s (HomePNA) initial specification for 1 Mbps data transfer over standard telephone wiring. Utilizing the widely endorsed HomePNA technology and leveraging significant expertise in enterprise networking allows AMD to produce a highly-integrated device capable of meeting the growing consumer demand for an inexpensive, easy-to-use technology allowing for the sharing of computing resources among many different PCs. The PCnet™-Home single-chip controller marries Ethernet with in-home telephone wiring to deliver on the promises of home networking.

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While Local Area Networks (LANs) are a well-accepted part of the communications environment for businesses, LANs are not commonly deployed in the home. This is due to several technical and logistical reasons. Chief among these is the fact that the widely adopted and supported enterprise networking technologies require a technically skilled individual capable of designing and maintaining a complex network architecture. Enterprise networks also require the use of high-grade wiring typically not found in most homes. Also, few home users are willing to master the art of installing and maintaining an Ethernet repeater, learn even the basics about network protocols, or drill holes through their walls to run new network-capable wiring throughout their home.
The driving force behind creating new home connectivity products is the growing number of homes with two or more PCs. With the increased focus on computers in education and the boom in Internet connectivity, a large number of PCs being purchased today are additional PCs as opposed to replacement units. Today, it is estimated that over 15 million of the 100 million homes in the United States have two or more PCs, and 60% of new consumer PC purchases are by families that already have at least one computer. This number is expected to double by the year 2000 according to the research firm Dataquest.
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