music/video center, synchronized with the new iTV
server, as well as the Wi-Fi-enabled iTouch. The vision
consolidates around the iPhone, the new central device for
bringing the connected home together. Companies like
Nokia and Sony/Ericsson are working to leverage their
strenght in the mobile device market to develop similar
strategies.
have developed a protocol for bringing devices into this
connected home network. In an HZ2.0 application, the
handset can become part of the network through a native
Wi-Fi connection and DLNA application running on the
phone, or via proxy through a DNLA-enabled femtocell. In
fact, Nokia and Samsung both recently announced their
first DLNA-supported, dual-mode Wi-Fi handsets.
called "Soft At Home." This joint venture with Sagem and
Thomson has the stated goal to "facilitate the deployment
and interoperability of digital equipment in the home."
improve coverage and offer low-cost mobile calling to their
subscribers. These benefits are being realized today by
innovative operators such as Orange and T-Mobile US,
among others. Yet the vision for HZ2.0 is to develop a long-
term connected home strategy that cements the mobile
operator as the service provider of choice for in-building
communications and puts the mobile phone squarely at
the center of the next generation in-home network.
network alone does not support the fundamental
requirements of an HZ2.0 service: a radio-based `service
zone' to differentiate services from the macro network, the
use of broadband to offload data intensive services from
the macro network, and improved coverage/performance
delivered from an in-building radio (femtocell or Wi-Fi).
operators. In short, HZ2.0 lets mobile operators own
the home.
destinations. But with the rise of flat-rate data pricing,
there is no significant revenue opportunity for mobile
operators offering access to these sites from within the
home zone. In addition, data-intensive traffic has the
ability to choke mobile network resources.
directly to the IP network. HZ2.0 services based on
Wi-Fi or femtocells inherently support this local data
offload capability.
accessed over the cellar network. However, new UMA-
enabled handsets from Research in Motion (RIM) support
internet offload concurrently with UMA. When in Wi-Fi,
mobile services like voice and SMS are delivered through
the UMA tunnel, while internet applications like Google
or YouTube are routed directly over Wi-Fi.
feature. Traffic from the handset is passed into the
femtocell, which then can route the request based on IP
address or APN to the mobile core network or directly to
the public internet.