The first document ratified is HGI-RD015-R3: Energy Efficiency and Ecodesign requirements for a common power supply (CPS) for home gateway, home networking equipment and end devices document, while the second is HGI-RD010-R3: Home Gateway Requirements for Multiple Session Support.
The first document helps to enhance HGI’s energy efficiency portfolio of work and bringing ecodesign to home networking by facilitating energy efficient, reusable power supplies, while the second sets technical requirements to increase the reliability of the home gateway when handling some types of data traffic.
The first document is part of the HGI’s Release 3 specification family and has been produced by the HGI’s Energy Efficiency Task Force, and has already been liaised to ETSI where it will form the basis of a new European series of standards.
Duncan Bees, chief technology and business officer of HGI, said: “The HGI’s CPS work should help the industry to move towards standardised power bricks of higher efficiency, resulting in reduced energy consumption and better reuse opportunities.
“To help service providers provide uninterrupted broadband service, HGI members set technical requirements on the home gateway and other broadband equipment. The multiple session problem – where peer to peer applications create many data transport sessions – has created a robustness problem for some home gateways.”
