Cavium offers HiDef in-home wireless platform

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Cavium offers HiDef eval platform for In-Home Wireless

Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(06/01/09, 8:15 AM GMT)

San Jose, Ca. - Cavium Networks has just released its latest netHD evaluation platform called Lanai2 to introduce 1080p60 HD quality in-home video distribution to flat panel displays. Lanai2 supports the use of 802.11n WLAN, Powerline, Ethernet, MoCA or HPNA networking standards.

Many homes today contain multiple flat panel televisions and displays. Consumer equipment manufacturers, service providers, gaming console vendors and content owners are looking for a proven, standards based, secure and cost effective technology to transport real time HD1080p60 video within the home between multiple displays and content sources.

Cavium Networks is providing H.264 and IP networking and security technology to enable standards based, interoperable in-home HD video distribution, called netHD (networked high definition).

Cavium's netHD evaluation platform provides a cost effective, ready-to-use and feature rich development platform to build next generation in-home wireless and wired video distribution systems called netHD gateways.

Lanai2 integrates the PureVu CNW3602 and the OCTEON CN50XX MIPS64 processor with 2x HDMI interfaces, 1x VGA input, 1x SPDIF audio output, 1x GE port, 1x USB 2.0 host and 1x mini-PCI slot.

The HDMI interfaces can input 1080p60 video and send a secure compressed stream to the integrated Gigabit Ethernet interface or min-PCI slot for transport using any popular home networking standard like 802.11n WLAN, MoCA, Poweline, HPNA and Ethernet.

The netHD evaluation platform ships with a ready-to-use software, called the netHD application. Using the feature rich software development kit, manufactures can develop innovative applications using Linux, GNU tool-chain and standard C/C++ programming models.

For wireless based systems, Cavium provides special network quality processing that enables smooth, high-quality video over standard 802.11n WLAN. The evaluation platform supports HDCP 2.0 security so the HDMI interface on Blu-Ray DVDs and service provider set-top boxes can be used as an input to transport 1080p60 video to any display in the home wirelessly, via coax or powerline.

To learn more, go to www.caviumnetworks.com.

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