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January/2001 -- Welcome to my Mentoring section on Data Networking. These pages keep growing each month as a valuable resource for connecting home computers and networks. I look forward to your comments.
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Social And Economic Trends -- What is driving and enabling the Networked Home? Once again we examine this far-reaching question and try to look 10-15 years into the future – just half way through a typical home mortgage. Homebuyers can ask this question if they’re concerned that their new home might be obsolete before they sell and move out (or even before they move in). Builders also ask it, since they don’t want to add new features until customers demand them. And companies that make the products, services, and technologies want to understand the market opportunities, leverage points, alliances and risks. Although the question is simple enough to ask, the answer can be complex and involves a discussion of many technology, market and social trends. For insight into the answers, read my current article on Social & Economic trends. It is the last of a three-part series examining key trends enabling and driving the development of the Networked Home. My two previous articles covered Market & Consumer trends and Science & Technology Trends. As always, your comments and suggestions are encouraged. About Data Networking -- Of the four primary home networks (Telephone, Entertainment, Automation/Control and Data), Home Data Networking is generating the most interest. Consumer demand is so hot that it attracted the computer industry's largest companies including Compaq, Intel, Motorola and many others. This is a phenomenon driven by the growth in Internet access, broadband communications, home offices, multi-PC households, and new classes of digital products. It will play an important role in the emerging digital e‑conomy where new business models for commerce, education, entertainment, health care, and government will increasingly rely on consumer devices connected to high-value services. Wayne is a home networking visionary, frequent speaker, and author. His vision includes consumers with easy access to services and service providers with equal access to consumers, all without worrying about wiring or incumbent competitors that control the infrastructure. Wayne retired from IBM after 30 years while acting as the Marketing Chairman of the HomeRF Working Group, an industry association of over 100 companies with focus on wireless networking. After consulting for nine months and writing the market research report, "Information Appliances and Pervasive Net Access" , Wayne recently started working for Siemens ICM. There, he is helping the company develop home networking strategies and apply its cordless telephone technology to HomeRF, thus enabling the integration of voice, data and media streaming applications. Ironically, Wayne is again working with the HomeRF WG as its Communications Chairman just as HomeRF 1.0 products ship in retail channels and the HomeRF 2.0 is being finalized with a speed increase to 10 Mbps. Wayne can be reached at 512-997-0565 or wayne.caswell@icm.siemens.com |
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