21/06-07   -   Press releases

Westell and 4HomeMedia offer World´s first connected home multi-service residential gateway

Westell Limited, the convergence migration specialist today announced it is making the connected home a reality by integrating 4HomeMedia’s home control application into Westell’s UltraLine™ Series3 IP video gateway.

4Home Media’s ControlPoint™ embedded software gives broadband service providers an additional platform to deliver incremental fee-driven services through the UltraLine Series3. This enhanced functionality allows service providers to offer customers home automation and monitoring, plus home health, energy and media management services.

Westell demonstrated the UltraLine Series3 in booth #2215 at NXTcomm, which runs June 19th through 21st at Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center. The demonstration highlights 4HomeMedia’s fully-featured home control software platform.

“The UltraLine Series3 stands as the most robust residential gateway on the market with its support for fiber and VDSL2 technology," said 4HomeMedia director of product management Alex Fedosseev. “With the integration of 4HomeMedia’s ControlPoint™ embedded software, the gateway becomes a services engine for telcos, providing numerous for-fee broadband home services under a common user-interface system."

Westell introduced the UltraLine Series3 earlier this year as one of the only residential gateways in the industry to support the most recent advances in wide area network (WAN) solutions. The UltraLine Series3 supports the highest rate VDSL2 profile (band plan 30a), capable of bi-directional 100Mbps traffic over short distances. Other VDSL2 profiles supporting longer loops are provided for fibre-to-the-neighborhood (FTTN) topologies. The higher throughput VDSL2 30a band plan is ideal for multi-dwelling unit (MDU) applications and green field scenarios.

The UltraLine Series3 product line also includes models configured for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) environments. This includes direct connections via 10BaseT, gigabit Ethernet or a WAN connection over a coaxial cable link to a fiber ONT using a digital coax standard such as that offered by the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA). Westell’s future models will also support HPNAv3.
“With our dual-core design, the UltraLine Series3 was created to support third-party, premium value-added services for consumers," said Westell Marketing Director Vaughn Armstrong. “4HomeMedia’s platform approach of providing multiple services with a compelling, device-independent user interface significantly expands its capabilities."

At NXTcomm, Westell and 4HomeMedia will demonstrate a whole home control network spanning multiple protocols. Through the use of four-screen architecture, visitors will experience simultaneous and dynamic display and control of devices and systems from home computers, televisions, touch panels, and various smartphones.

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About 4HomeMedia
4HomeMedia provides the home solution that is changing the equation for deploying broadband services throughout the world. 4HomeMedia’s ControlPoint™ and Portal Server software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable applications and services for the home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage -- from anywhere and at anytime. 4HomeMedia, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA, with a sales office in Charlotte, NC. For more information on 4HomeMedia and its award-winning solution, please visit http://www.4HomeMedia.com

About Westell

Westell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSTL), which has corporate headquarters in Illinois, US and international offices in Basingstoke, UK, is a Tier-1 provider of intelligent, carrier-class broadband access products, manufactured using a TL9000 registered quality management system. Westell offers high-speed broadband/DSL and VoIP technology products for carriers, service providers and business enterprises around the world.

Westell’s InterChange convergence products enable an evolutionary migration to an IP network by providing a bridge between traditional voice networks and new IP networks. More info at www.westell.co.uk