Networking your home with cable TV wires is getting faster
Moving high-definition video from one room to another takes a lot of network capacity. That’s why a bunch of electronics companies have put a lot of work into figuring out how to use our home’s cable TV wiring to transfer data at high speeds from one device to another. The group — the Multimedia over Coax Alliance — is announced its 2.0 specification today that it is doubling the data transfer speeds. The concept was dreamed up in 2004, and the first version launched in 2008 with the ability to transfer data at 175 megabits a second. The MoCA 2.0 technology can transfer data in two modes: a basic version that transfers data at 400 megabits a second and an advanced version that transfers data at 800 megabits per second. “This came together over the last year after thousands of hours of work,” said Rob Gelphman, chairman of the marketing work group of MoCA
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Networking your home with cable TV wires is getting faster