Almost nobody agrees on the best wired or wireless technology for linking TV services to devices around the home, but HomePNA made a clear claim this week that it is winning the war against other standards like MoCA, HomePlug and UPA as well as the various wireless alternatives.
HomePNA issued a statement saying that with its latest win at Canadian Telus, it had four of the top five North American Telcos which are in the process of deploying TelcoTV, which between them drove the highest number of installed homes in last quarter of any competing technology.
The claim is aimed fairly and squarely at rival MoCA which is installing in high volumes now at Verizon and also has a grip on the Cable operators in the US, which are planning to use MoCA connections for whole home DVRs, and which is also hoping to entice the European cable operators to do the same (one day).
The HomePNA Alliance said that Telus would use its offering on existing coax, saying its delivery speed was 320 Mbps. HPNA was originally developed for telco twisted pair and then adapted to coax in order to win over AT&T, its first major win.
HomePNA goes further and says that it was installed in more North American homes last quarter than any other coax home networking technology and that globally it is being installed at the rate of 15,000 home networks a week (66% of which will be AT&T). Back in May the HPNA Alliance said that it had now delivered over 5 million HPNA chipsets from the Israeli chip maker behind HPNA, Coppergate Communications.