This Foundation Recommendation specifies basic characteristics of unified high-speed home networking transceivers capable of operating over premises wiring including inside telephone wiring, coaxial cable, and power-line wiring, and combinations of these, with modulation parameters for data rates up to 1 gigabit/second. The specification includes a description of the home network architecture and reference models along with major aspects of the transceiver physical layer specification. A future version of this Recommendation will include the data link layer and regional Annexes to complete the transceiver specification.