Guidelines of 2.0 Designs for Home Networking Released By HANA

Announcing the release of its 2.0 Design Guideline, High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance popularly known as HANA said that the intention is to afford their customers the ability to share high-definition and standard-definition content between devices anywhere in their home using a single cable with a single remote control and this the company believes will facilitate usability of the service.

Confident about the relieve such guidelines would bring to their customers, Jack Chaney who is the head of HANA Technical Work Group Chair expressed their excitement about the simplicity that HANA 2.0 is bringing back to home entertainment with its one cable, one remote capabilities. He said, "HANA 2.0 utilises 1394, guaranteeing the Quality of Service required by consumers for today's HD content.  1394 is the only network that provides isochronous delivery of HD video and audio programming without any complications."

With the 1394 interface, users would be able to utilize their existing coax wiring to connect products throughout their homes, eliminating the need for rewiring, and also to send cable programming to any HANA DTV in he home from a single set-top box.

HANA 2.0 also implements other industry standards including many used by Universal Plug n Play (UPnP) to discover devices on the home network and it features include the sharing of a minimum of five simultaneous HD content streams throughout the entire home, simple browser/server architecture, plug-and-play simplicity for consumers, high speed, guaranteed Quality of Service, the ability to add new devices to the network without having to download new device drivers or update firmware, and the ability to reserve device resources for future use to enable time-shift recordings.