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Celeno’s Wi-Fi Implementation May Replace MoCA, HomePlug and HomeGrid

Every time you talk to Wi-Fi chip maker Celeno, you walk away thinking that Wi-Fi, or at least Celeno’s implementation of Wi-Fi, will kill off wireline network technologies like MoCA, HomePlug and the just-around-the-corner HomeGrid (G.hn). Celeno makes 3x3 MIMO Wi-Fi chips that incorporate a number of advanced technologies that it developed specifically for handling up to eight concurrent streams of HD video. Yes, eight HD streams and all flicker-free. It’s quite a promise.

MoCA Backbone Today; All Celeno Tomorrow
The growing consensus these days is that MoCA will be the backbone that’s used to move data and video to an area in the home, like the second floor, but then Wi-Fi is used to feed less demanding data to devices like tablets. Liberty Global’s UPC Broadband will soon start offering a STB/DVR called Horizon that comes with both MoCA and Celeno’s Wi-Fi chips. Celeno says that the MoCA consensus will begin crumbling when a pay TV service like UPC gets enough confidence in Celeno’s Wi-Fi implementation to use it exclusively and disable MoCA altogether.

It’s unfair to call Celeno merely a chipmaker. It has figured out, it says, how to deliver multiple streams of HD video in a home with a reliability that equals or exceeds any wireline network technology, including the gold standard MoCA.

Celeno produces dual concurrent band video-grade Wi-Fi chips that can handle HD and IPTV content streaming, OTT video distribution, VoIP, multiplayer gaming and Web browsing. The chips concurrently use the 5 GHz frequency and the 2.4 GHz frequency to provide flicker-free quality of service (QoS) and high performance.

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