• Imagine leaving the house with your smart phone connected to your home LAN, having it automatically switch to a fourth-generation cellular network on the bus, then to a WiMax network downtown, and then to your company's wireless LAN in the office. Conversations won't stop and people won't understand that you have changed technologies, says Mark Francis, VP of enterprise architecture at AT&T Labs.
   

• Broadband digital services for the home are very competitive with both the quality and quantity of services increasing dramatically over the last couple of years. However, the complexity, for the average person, of network wiring inside the home is still bothersome.
   

• The cable industry is offering a triple play package consisting of television/on-demand video, high-speed data and voice. Through fiber optics, the telephone companies are able to match and sometimes exceed in quality, the triple play package offered by the cable companies and at a more competitive price.
   

• Electric utility companies, through power-lines, are beginning to deploy high-speed data services. Satellite companies are limited to television and video on-demand. The addition of wireless phone services will turn the triple play into a quadruple play package.
   

• Networking inside the home is still a problem, though. Despite the advances in broadband to the home, networking within the home is still a little behind. Deploying the routers and network adapters to connect PCs and home electronics in a seamless network still has not been easily achieved for the average consumer.  
   

• However, homebuilders are pre-wiring new homes for networking to help alleviate this problem.
   

• This research report analyzes the comprehensive home networking market and corresponding industries that focus on the consumer home network, both broadband to the home and networking inside the home. We present strategies and company profiles of key industry players and case studies of consumer broadband users. We also look at changing market conditions and give recommendations for successfully competing in the home networking market.

You are Being Followed
People are accustomed to managing any number of digital identities for their home phones, personal cell phones, work cell phones, work E-mail, home E-mail, and more. And each of these identifies is tied to a specific wireless or wired network. Imagine that instead of this complexity, you had a personal network that followed you everywhere.