Summary

ITU-T Recommendation J.190 establishes a flexible and forward-looking home-networking framework that provides a unifying theme for developing a coherent set of home-network interface specifications. The MediaHomeNet infrastructure, initially created for cable access networks, is now designed to be complementary to all IP-based access networks in order to support applications such as video distribution to STB defined in ITU-T Recommendation J.290 (next generation set-top box) and voice over IP defined in ITU-T Recommendation J.160 (IPCablecom) or ITU-T Recommendation J.360 (IPCablecom2), and RF-based broadcast services. MediaHomeNet identifies a set of fundamental architectural elements that can be flexibly combined in a set of configurations, allowing for the consideration of a wide variety of home‑networking solutions.