Service provider home networks to reach 71 million households by 2012.

Service providers are rapidly increasing their deployments of residential gateways for connected home applications, according to "Networks in the Home: The Global Service Provider Play". This new report from Parks Associates forecasts the total number of households worldwide with service provider-deployed residential gateway solutions will grow to more than 70 million by year-end 2012. "Service providers worldwide are scrambling to add value to broadband, communications, and other services," said Kurt Scherf, Parks Associates' Vice President and Principal Analyst. "Connected home strategies are focusing on advanced customer premises equipment and related services that provide significant enhancements to both subscribers and service providers. As 2008 International CES demonstrated, home networking products aimed at the service provider community are growing in sophistication as carriers seek to enhance the features and applications available to their subscribers."

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