Initial techno-economic results for OMEGA home Gigabit networks

The media richness of the services available to the end consumer has had a constant increase rate over the last century. This leads nowadays to the need of Ultra Broadband at home to handle future services such as 3D video that may reach the Gigabit per second. Moreover, beyond the bandwidth increase, the home network capabilities have to evolve in order to support new usages and to guarantee Quality of Service. This paper describes state of the art issues and typical requirements for the future home network and presents a solution fulfilling these requirements, based on an inter-MAC convergence layer. This solution is developed in the OMEGA FP7 project. It then provides initial results of a techno-economic analysis that studies the case of a hypothetical OMEGA Service Operator (OSO).