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“Service providers are taking on a greater role in deploying, servicing, and now monetizing home networks,” said Kurt Scherf, Vice President and Principal Analyst with Parks Associates. “Beyond basic broadband sharing applications, in-home connectivity is enabling new communications and entertainment services.”
Connected Home, Global Outlook Report, Parks Associates, Sept 09

The connected home is becoming a reality as video shows the way for consumers to demand easy, flexible access to media content on every device they use.  Ownership of the Connected Home and management of its services has the potential to enable service providers to move beyond the pure telecoms play and increase revenues and customer loyalty with multi screen services.

However, there are key technical and commercial questions to be addressed to ensure that service providers lay the foundations for a successful Connected Home offering; Connected Home World Summit, Part of the IPTV World Series, home of the world's leading IPTV events,  will bring together all the key players in the connected home value chain to evaluate the commercial potential of Connected Home services and to clearly understand the technical and financial challenges of supporting them.

Commercial Opportunities:

• Forecasting the market potential for Connected Home services, understanding consumer requirements and determining who will own the Connected Home?
• Evaluating the different Connected Home service offerings in terms of profitability,  stickiness and  RoI timescales
• Effectively delivering the three (multi) screen strategy with access to all data on all media
• Factoring the development of cloud services in to the Connected Home offering and ensuring revenue generation for service providers
• Examining the business model for enabling, security, health or energy management services – will SP’s own the service or revenue share with providers?
• Making the business case for mobile only, 4G Connected Home service offering
  

Technology & Software:

• Outlining the technology choices to be made in terms of: middleware, gateways and home network solutions
• Is there an optimum technology for home networking or is it a combination of right fit solutions: wifi, powerline, Ethernet, cable, femtocell?
• The standards evolution: Examining the development if the G.hn and the Homeplug and interoperability with legacy standards
• Making the business case for supporting remote management of connected home devices: exploiting TR 69 and DLNA
• Comparing Greenfield and legacy Connected Home deployments: cost justifying platform upgrades for legacy IPTV services