Sigma Unveils Industry's First G.hn Chipset

Sigma Designs Inc. has launched the CG5110, the industry's first G.hn chipset for home entertainment networking. The G.hn standard, which is the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) next-generation standard for wired home entertainment networks over any wire, represents an enormous step forward for consumer electronics OEMs, PC manufacturers and broadband service providers in terms of performance and ease-of-deployment. Sigma's CG5110 G.hn chipset, capable of handling the immense bandwidth required by media-rich applications and high-definition content over any wire, anywhere in the world today, paves the way for an entirely new class of home entertainment networking products and services.

By using all three wires in the home (coax, phone lines and power lines), Sigma's G.hn chipset will enable home networks that can run up to 3Gbps. This high-performance solution can deliver up to 60 times the throughput of existing wireless technologies and more than nine times the performance of existing wire solutions. With this level of performance, Sigma will enable service providers to easily and affordably deliver any service they are looking to implement in the coming decade, including high-definition multimedia entertainment, triple-play services, IPTV, telepresence, telemedicine, home monitoring and 3DTV.

Sigma's CG5110 also supports backward compatibility with today's mass deployments of HomePNA and HomePlug AV. With an estimated 80 percent of all IPTV deployments in the world based on these standards, Sigma's G.hn solution allows the smoothest and most seamless migration to G.hn for service providers around the world.

Utilizing the ClearPath Extreme technology, Sigma's chipset is the first to include the next-generation MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology over powerline.

The CG5110 is compliant with ITU-T G.hn Recommendation (G.9960/1) over all existing wires: powerline, coax and phoneline; compliant with ITU-T G.9954 Recommendation (HomePNA 3.1); compliant with HomePlug AV Version 1.1/IEEE P1901; compliant with ITU-T G.cx Recommendation (G.9972) over powerline; and has PHY rate up to 1Gbps.

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