Residential Gateways

  • Authors:
  • P. M. Bull;P. R. Benyon;P. R. Limb

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • BT Technology Journal
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The residential gateway (RG) is set to become a key infrastructure component in the future home network. Ideally home networks should be easy to set up and operate and it should also be possible to securely deliver and manage services. For service providers, the RG appears to offer a huge opportunity to extend their presence into the home and in so doing ‘own’ the territory. However, a new generation of customers are used to retaining control and many people will be unwilling to let external agents intrude too far into their environment. This paper examines the residential gateway, the forms it might take, the roles it could play and looks at aspects of management.