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Market and Industry Perspectives on DLNA

Jon Peddie

Jon Peddie Research

[email protected]

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Jon Peddie Research

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DLNA Promotes Seamless Interoperability Between CE and PC Devices in the Home

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What is the Market Opportunity for DLNA?

It’s a part of a part of a part:

• First there has to be a content delivery system (cable, satellite, OTA, CDs, DVDs, MP3s, etc.)

• To share those sources, there has to be a network in the home.

• Then there has to be a gateway hub or server (a caching proxy.)

• And there has to be client devices.

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What’s the Market Potential?

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Sources - Global Digital

365 Million DTV Households 2010

• Cable the dominant platform by 2010

• Broadband TV 16.8 m by 2010(Informa Telecoms & Media) 413 million DSL subscribers (In-Stat)

• Digital terrestrial TV - 38 million by 2010

• Satellite TV – 100 m subscribers by 2008

• Digital radio – 22 million by 2009

What’s the market

Potential?

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• Online music market to increase sevenfold by 2010– music downloads and subscription revenues

to top CD sales on the Web next year– Europeans will download five times more

music to their mobile phones by 2010

• Digital mages captured, shared, and received will grow 24% from 2004 to 2009

• 111 million DSCs global demand in 2008

Sources – Other than TVWhat’s the

market Potential?

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Electrons just want to be free...

There’s a natural affinity for digital devices to be connected

(Kathleen Maher, 2003)

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Networks

• 74 million US homes have cable, 80% of them have 2+ STBs = 56 million coax home network systems in the US

• Europe has nearly twice the number of TV households as North America (Informa Media Group)

• 238 million TV households in Europe, compared with 126 million in North America by 2010

• The Asia-Pacific market contains 60% of the world's TV households.

What’s the market

Potential?

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NetworksWhat’s the

market Potential?

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There’s going to plenty of sources

…and lots of home networks to distribute the media

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But it won’t be easy to get them all connected

…lots of obstacles and gotchas

What are the obstacles?

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UPnP is only a start

For connectivity, UPnP DLNA devices must incorporate:

• 802.3i (10BaseT Ethernet) or

• 802.3u (100BaseT Fast Ethernet), or

• one of the Wi-Fi-certified 802.11 wireless standards (802.11a, b or g),

• and/or a combination of these physical-layer interfaces.

What are the

obstacles?

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802.11 No Panacea

Blocked by

• Space and water heaters

• Refrigerators and ovens

• Bathroom fixtures and plumbing

• Aluminum 2x4 studs

• Foil-backed installation

• And even some windows

What are the

obstacles?

However, WiFi is pretty good even for video – so DRM and stream support and interoperability are the real issues

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Software Links

• 99% of non-computer home gadgets run Wind River, Linux, or proprietary CE control systems, and patching them to Microsoft is tough

• Linux has its own set of stacks

• Korea and China considering their own

This ain’t no slam dunk

What are the

obstacles?

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DLNA who?

Lost in the logos, or no show?

What are the

obstacles?

Maybe its still early days, but no joy this holiday with no DLNA logo show

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DLNA – huh?

• Couldn’t find logo’ed products from the promoters or members at large– Go to the Certified page, and click on the

products - then look at an ad

• Found one – Mediabolic’s DigiOn

Before you can win the consumers, you better get the members on board

What are the

obstacles?

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Members?

• And who are those members?• There a lot listed, and a conspicuous absence of

some important companies– ADS– Apple– Belkin– Cisco – Creative Labs– Logitech– Monsoon – Netgear– Network Magic– Novell– Pluto– SlingBox?

What are the

obstacles?

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Not the only game in town

• What about some of the other solutions? How does: – MoCA– NEMO– Mobile IPv6– HomePNA– Home Plug– and AAA fit in?

What are the

obstacles?

NEMO / Mobile IPv6 are at different levels of the OSI layer and not a competing solution

Layer 1 and max 3 – will support UPnP as they are all “Ethernet

Authentication Authorization Accounting – and there’s another A: Auditing plus a C Charging; all is somewhat related to MobileIP V6 and NEMO

DLNA has a “special liaison” group.Don’t tell me – tell the world

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DLNA is Part of the Solution

• DLNA is mainly residing in the levels 3 and 4 (IP / TCP and UDP) plus some level 5 and 6 work in conjunction with XML and SOAP to implement eventing and control.

• UPnP is so open and flexible that you can have devices that are compliant with UPnP spec – but can't work together because their set of supported protocols

or content formats don't overlap.  

• DLNA tries to rein this is a bit and mandate common protocols & formats to guarantee baseline compatibility.  

• It also brings other technologies into the mix that are required for a system solution.    

What are the

obstacles?

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Who Bolts it Together?

• Is Joe six-pack or my aunt supposed to build the home network?– How about getting

• CEDIA• NASBA • NSCA• PARA, and other system installers and integrators on board?

– DLNA needs to exhibit at Integrated Systems Europe 2007, Europe’s AV and Electronic Systems Integration showcase

– And what about fringe thinks like MythTV?

What are the

obstacles?

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Summary

• DLNA was founded 3 years ago

• Global home networking will grow from 35 million homes in 2004 to over 160 million by 2010.

• The number of network-capable devices will increase 108 million today to one billion Internet and LAN-friendly gadgets in 2010

• Time is not on your side – and after 3 years DLNA logos on real products are very hard to find.

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Summary

• DLNA is the best shot at pulling this maze together

• There are some great member companies • – some important ones are missing

• Word is not getting out to the users

• Installation is critical

• You’ve got a good start, now kick it up a notch

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Thank you

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About the rollout of IPTV-It is finally gaining critical mass and raising a slew of issues for service

providers.•  WAN interfaces are in a flux - FTTP and FTTH are the obvious

choices, but ADSL2+ and VDSL are also IPTV-capable• LAN choices are even more complex. A typical US household has

3.5 TVs and these are not wired with Ethernet. WiFi is simply not capable of reliably handling multiple HDTV streams. Technologies such as MoCA and HomePlug are being evaluated along with HPNA and 802.11n.

• If IPTV merely copies the multi-channel service offered by cable and satellite, it will become a price war leaving room for very little profit and potential to recover the cost of fiber and CPE deployment.  How do service providers layer on value added services (both data and video) to make their pipe different from the competition?

• In a world where every house is capable of 20-30 (or more) Mbps bandwidth, is there a role for in-home storage? If so, will this be a PC? Is there an opportunity for service providers to create strategic value in this storage?