Israeli Satellite Television Company yes Selects HomePNA for its “yes.Multiroom” Deployments

yes, Israel’s satellite television provider, and the HomeGrid Forum, today announced that yes is using HomePNA home networking technology to power yes.Multiroom, its new whole-home digital video recorder (DVR) offering. The company chose to expand its commitment to HomePNA networking because of its field- proven capabilities as a high quality networking technology.

yes.Multiroom allows users to view a movie recorded on a yesMax Total  DVR in any room of the house.  Customers can start watching a movie in one room, pause it and continue watching in another. Along with yes.Multiroom, yes has introduced a new user interface incorporating a “personal viewing recommendation engine.”

“yes is a technology-driven company that strives to offer its customers leading edge products that enhance their viewing experience,” said Itzhak Elyakim, vice president of engineering and CTO of yes. “We have depended on HomePNA home networking technology over the last two years for our successful Video on Demand (VoD) service deployments.  The success of that experience made HomePNA the obvious choice for our new yes.Multiroom, providing a reliable high speed backbone to distribute DVR service throughout our customers’ homes.”

“Since its founding, yes satellite has led the market in introducing services that leverage enabling technologies, like HomePNA, to deliver a great experience and services to its customers,” said Eran Gureshnik, former president of the HomePNA Alliance and special HomePNA advisor to the HomeGrid Board. “We are very pleased that yes continues to depend on HomePNA technology for its latest and most demanding products and services.”

Over 40 million certified HomePNA products have been shipped to telco, satellite, and cable service providers of all sizes worldwide, supplying critical components of their IP based service deployments.  HomePNA technology is based on an open ITU-T standard (G.9954) and is included in the DLNA Interoperability Guidelines. The wide range of certified HomePNA products can be found on HomeGrid’s HomePNA Products web page.