According to the considerable progress of visual communication and notably at home (Home Visual Communication), this development process increased number of devices that allow users to control and monitor events: Digital Audio servers, computer networking, multi-zone accesses, audio-video... As these devices became more common, the need will increase for a home-networking that will allow all data, voice, and smart devices to be accessed at any time from anywhere.
The industry of networks management is increasing all over the world. That is why CRF is developing mainly around home multimedia network technologies. Since 1998, we are developing an Integrated Home Network backbone. That is a Canon original technology that mixes together IEEE1394 and Ethernet interface on top of integrated Switch inside UTP5 interface backbone to provide Gbps throughput. The basic concept has many benefits like: low-cost silicon and single UTP5 wiring.
For more information about this technology, please contact business-dev@crf.canon.fr