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The Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies
The Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies Author:Gerard O'Driscoll This book starts where other home networking guides leave off, with thorough, expert coverage of every issue and technology driving home networking. Coverage includes: home networking benefits: convenience, time savings, entertainment, security, and more; how home networks work--and how they're different from business networks; who's competing i... more »n this market--in the U.S. and worldwide phoneline networks, including Home Phoneline Networking Alliance systems; powerline networks: X10, CEBus, Enikia, and Inari; wireless networks: RF and infrared; home control and automation systems, including LonWorks(r); connecting to phone and cable providers: cable modems, digital set-top boxes, personal video recorders, game consoles, home servers, and more; and connecting to the Internet: DSL, HFC, wireless cable, satellite, B-ISDN, and powerline wide area networks Home networking middleware and APIs: HAVi, Jini, UPnP, HomeAPI, OSGi, and HomePnP.« less