Sigma Designs has shipped more than 20 million HomePNA chipsets worldwide. This significant milestone demonstrates that Sigma's HomePNA solution has received broad adoption by both Original Equipment Manufacturers and service providers across the globe thanks to its easy installation, high performance, and cost savings.

Sigma is the worldwide leader in IPTV over coax and phone lines. More than 70 service providers worldwide use HomePNA for IPTV distribution and broadband access. Twenty-five thousand new Sigma-enabled HomePNA devices are installed in single-family homes and Multi-Dwelling Units every business day. Leading OEMs and ODMs such as Motorola, Cisco, Pace, Actiontec, Alcatel/Lucent, Comtrend, Sercomm, Cameo, and ZyXEL use Sigma's HomePNA solutions in their product offerings.

The HomePNA Alliance announced the tremendous success of the first HomePNA Technology Summit, which ran from September 30 - October 1, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Leading worldwide service providers such as AT&T, Telefonica, TELUS, yes, Tata Sky and others spoke about their experiences with HomePNA technology, offering first-hand information about how they remain competitive in today's demanding IPTV marketplace. More than 100 service providers and equipment vendors attended the event because they recognize the tremendous business opportunity presented by in-home and broadband access networks running HomePNA. In addition, five service providers joined HomePNA including Tata Sky and yes. Another ten service providers are also in the process of joining the organization.

The first HomePNA Summit, set for September 30th - October 1st in Houston, Texas, will host leading broadband service providers from across the globe to outline how HomePNA technology is enabling profitable in-home broadband and entertainment networks. Representatives from AT&T, Telefonica, Digicable, TELUS, Tata Sky, YES, CenturyLink, and Bell Aliant are all scheduled to detail their experience with telecom's next frontier, the digital home. "We're bringing a truly global perspective from telcos, cablecos, and satellite service providers to the important issue of how broadband service providers can deliver new triple play and over-the-top services to enable a profitable in-home broadband experience for their customers," says Bernie Arnason of Pivot Media, a co-producer of the Summit.

The HomePNA Alliance announces its first Technology Summit to be held September 30 and October 1, 2009 in Houston, Texas. The Summit, which is also being promoted by the FTTH Council, will be co-located with the 2009 FTTH Conference & Expo. The Summit will focus on technical and business insights surrounding HomePNA technology and its role in enabling an advanced digital home experience for end users.

Actiontec Electronics launches two products that simplify how HD video and other media-rich content are delivered throughout the connected home. The new Ethernet-over-Coax MoCA and HomePNA Network Adapters give CEDIA and Custom Installation professionals an easy solution to leverage existing coax wiring for high performance data connections.

The HomePNA Alliance will be exhibiting at the TelcoTV 2008 show being held in Anaheim, Calif., at the Anaheim Convention Center, Nov. 11-13. “I’m looking forward to attending TelcoTV, one of the leading events for telcos looking to deploy triple-play services,” said recently elected HomePNA president William Simmelink. “We’ve made tremendous inroads in North America and, with AT&T U-verse TV close to the 1 million subscriber mark and many other leading telcos installing HomePNA, interest continues to grow rapidly.”

The HomePNA Alliance announced that it will join leading equipment and service providers at the 2008 FTTH Conference and Expo being held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee on September 21-25. HomePNA will participate in the Home Networking Zone, a conference highlight providing interactive exhibits, product displays and service demonstrations enabled by a fiber to the home connection.

The HomePNA Alliance announces that more leading North American telcos are deploying its technology and that HomePNA was installed in more North American homes in the last quarter than any other coax home networking solution. In addition, HomePNA announced that TELUS, the $9 billion Canadian telecommunications company, has chosen the HomePNA 3.1 technology for its TELUS TV service offering.

TELUS has selected CopperGate's HomePNA 3.1 technology integrated into set-top boxes and residential gateways for its TELUS TV service offering. CopperGate's chipsets provide a complete HomePNA 3.1 home networking solution that operates over both coax cables and phone wires. CopperGate chipsets are the first to comply with the ITU G.9954 (HomePNA 3.1) home networking standard and feature guaranteed parameter-based service levels and powerful remote management and diagnostics capabilities. HomePNA 3.1 technology is being deployed today by AT&T and other major telecommunication companies worldwide.

CopperGate Communications ships 5 million HomePNA chipsets worldwide, making the company the leader in IPTV services over coax and phone wires. HomePNA is the only ITU-T home networking standard over coax and phone lines and it delivers up to 320 Mbit/s of transmission – more than any other home networking technology. HomePNA is perfect for coax installations. There are now more than 25 certified products supporting HomePNA, more than any other coax networking technology. The company delivers the highest Quality of Service over coax which is why CopperGate’s HomePNA chips are embedded in millions of devices deployed in the field and have connected over 15,000 miles of coax to date.

HomePNA announces that three more companies have joined the HomePNA home networking alliance -- the only existing-wire home networking standard today for telco TV (IPTV) video distribution. New members D-Link Corp., Arcom Labs, Inc. and SerComm Corp. will promote HomePNA technology and deliver solutions for IPTV over coax and phone lines.

HomePNA delivers up to 320 Mbit/s of data transmission. In addition, HomePNA delivers a high quality video experience for viewers while enabling service providers to reduce installation costs, utilize remote management and diagnostics to reduce operational expenses, and even reduce end-user costs through unified billing.

HomePNA announces that the 5 millionth HomePNA 3.1 chipset has now shipped, up from 2 million less than six months ago. The shipments demonstrate the high demand for HomePNA multimedia home networking devices in IPTV service deployments.

HomePNA is being deployed by dozens of telephone companies worldwide including AT&T, Aliant in Canada, and Sonaecom in Portugal. With almost 30 certified products, HomePNA offers service providers more certified products that operate over coaxial cable than any other standard.

HomePNA has certified an additional nine products and the first 320 Mbps chipset reference design as HomePNA 3.1 compliant, increasing the number of certified products to 26. The new certifications include ADSL and VDSL residential gateways, set-top boxes, Ethernet to HomePNA 3.1 bridges, and an iNID outdoor residential gateway/indoor Wi-Fi access point.

HomePNA plugfests are only open to HomePNA members. Newly certified products and designs include:

• 2Wire iNID VDSL2 outdoor residential gateway and indoor Wi-Fi access point units
• D-Link ADSL2+ residential gateway
• SMC VDSL2 residential Gateway and Ethernet to HomePNA 3.1 coax bridge

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HomePNA will exhibit at IP Possibilities Conference & Expo in Chicago April 7 to 11, and address “Lessons Learned About Installing Home Networks for triple-play IPTV Services” at NABShow’s Telecom 2008 in Las Vegas April 14. HomePNA 3.1 home networking technology is being deployed today by a rapidly growing number of telcos for IPTV. It enables service providers to distribute high-speed, triple-play services -- IPTV, VoIP and data -- over both phone wires and coaxial cables in the home at speeds up to 320 megabits per second with guaranteed QoS.

Focusing on rural telephone companies, IP Possibilities attendees learn how to evaluate the next generation of IP technologies from a financial, technical, and operational perspective. Participants will learn how to identify areas of growth, improve their customers’ experience, ensure a smooth transition, and increase their profitability. Attendees can discuss HomePNA and explore its benefits during show hours, April 9 and 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

HomePNA broadens its HomepPNA 3.1 product availability and telephone company deployments demonstrate how the open standard is maturing in the multimedia home marketplace. With more than 17 HomePNA products on the market, nine large telcos and many smaller telcos have deployed HomePNA to deliver high-speed, triple-play services to subscribers.

Aliant stated that the availability of HomePNA 3.1 products eased the telco’s deployment of IPTV services to customers. “We are pleased that there are now off-the-shelf products available to Aliant that incorporate the HomePNA 3.1 standard to simplify the in-home experience for our end-user customers,” said Gary Lund, chief technical officer for Aliant. Aliant is the leading IPTV service provider in Atlantic Canada and one of the largest regional telcos in North America. “HomePNA allows us to use the existing wires in our customers’ homes to reduce installation times for Aliant TV’s growing customer base without compromising performance.”