The Only Home Entertainment Networking

Standard In Use By All Three Pay TV Segments—Cable, Satellite, IPTV

Dr. Anton MonkCTO, MoCA

Co-founder / VP Technology, Entropic Communications

www.mocalliance.org

The Organization

• Established in January 2004 by the most respected service providers, OEMs, CE vendors and chip suppliers in the digital entertainment distribution value chain.

• 100 certified products (STBs, Internet – TV adapters, ONTs, gateways, routers, et al)

• Only home entertainment networking and connectivity standard in deployment by all three pay TV segments – cable, satellite and IPTV/telco – worldwide.

• More than 50 million nodes in the field.• Incorporated into DLNA’s Interoperability Guidelines.• Included in IEEE P1905 and 802.AS standard• On retail shelves now.

Board of Directors

Contributor Members

Associate Members

Courtesy Comcast

Anything that can connect will connect!

Whole Home DVRs Connected TVs Connected Game Consoles

All numbers in Millions

Source: Parks Associates, Home Networks for Consumer Electronics (2009).

Trends in Connectivity

2010 U.S. Television Households

Projected MoCA Market Share

97 Million Pay TV Households

MoCA 1.0 and 1.1

• MAC rate (net throughput): 175 Mb/s (MoCA 1.1) • PHY rate: 270 Mb/s• Operating frequency 850 – 1500 MHz• Flexible spectrum usage – 50 MHz coexisting with cable or

satellite• Support for 16 nodes• Quality of Service (QoS)

• Prioritized QoS – differentiated service for video, voice and gaming• Parameterized QoS – reserved bandwidth • MIB/SNMP and TR-069 Management interface

• MoCA 1.1 Annex• Expanded operating frequency of 500 MHz—1500MHz

MoCA 2.0

• Two performance modes• Baseline Mode

• 400+ Mbps MAC throughput • 700 Mbps PHY Rate

• Enhanced / Bonded Mode• 800+ Mbps MAC throughput • 1.4 Gbps PHY Rate

• “Turbo” mode• Point-to-point configuration that allows 25% boost in throughput

• Energy savings • Sleep and standby power modes• Address power consumption in entire network

• Fully backward interoperable with MoCA 1.0/1.1• Protects investment in current equipment.

• Expanded operating frequency from 500 – 1650 MHz

Home Networking Requirements

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Future Capacity with MoCA 2.0

Network of Today

Network of Tomorrow

0 Mbps 1 Gbps

0 Mbps 200 Mbps

0 Mbps 150 Mbps

400 Mbps

MoCA 2.0 Baseline

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Major “GLOBAL” Service Providers Committed to MoCA

The Only Home Entertainment Networking Standard in Use by all Three Pay TV segments —

Cable, Satellite and IPTV