Broadband subscribers are seeking next generation services and applications to enhance their digital lives. Facilitate every part of your subscribers’ digital lifestyles without the significant upfront costs typically associated with customized CPE and application development.

Modularity is the Solution

The HomePortal GEM platform is the cost-effective alternative to expensive service-specific CPE and time-consuming application development. Unlike traditional CPE, the HomePortal GEM platform is designed for hardware and application modularity.

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HomePortal GEM 6000 Series Intelligent Gateway

The intelligent gateway supports modularity while retaining all the subscriber-satisfying features of a traditional HomePortal intelligent gateway. It features full TR-069 standard compliance, a high-performance ADSL or VDSL modem, a high-speed router, and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n options), Ethernet, and USB 2.0 home networking technologies to accommodate a variety of service provider and subscriber environments.

In addition to delivering a superior broadband and home networking experience to your subscribers, the HomePortal GEM intelligent gateway accommodates a variety of software applications and snap-on gateway expansion modules, to enable and support a wide range of advanced services.

GEM Topaz™ – Cordless Voice

Add cordless DECT base station functionality to the intelligent gateway with this DECT gateway expansion module. Enable your subscribers to connect multiple portable handsets to a single home phone line while enjoying HD-quality voice, extended device range, and an array of new broadband services available right on the handset.

GEM Ruby™ – Mobile Phone Base Station

This femtocell gateway expansion module acts as a miniature mobile phone base station in the home, vastly improving mobile voice and data coverage and quality throughout the home. Integration with the intelligent gateway enhances your subscribers’ experience of fixed-mobile convergence by ensuring consistent DSL integration with intelligent routing and accurate QoS for voice and video service during simultaneous broadband usage by multiple users.

GEM Emerald™ – Intelligent Home Server

The intelligent home server gateway expansion module continuously scans, uploads, and aggregates subscribers’ personal shared digital media libraries. Stored media is then accessible through any PC or set top box on the network, or remotely via a customizable, provider-branded Web-based portal.

GEM Sapphire™ – Home Controls

With the home device interface gateway expansion module, the intelligent gateway can double as a control center, providing monitoring and home control services for local and remote access of security monitoring devices and home automation controls. Via a single provider-branded Web-based portal, subscribers can access multiple home viewing cameras, manage settings for lighting and temperature control systems, and oversee home energy management.

GEM Amethyst™ – 3G Wireless Link

The 3G wireless link gateway expansion module delivers a broadband data connection over a 3G wireless link, providing a reliable over-the-air alternative or backup to wired service.

Improved Time-to-Market With a Modular Solution

Leverage the HomePortal GEM platform’s hardware and software modularity to get your offerings to market faster. Deploy the robust HomePortal GEM intelligent gateway at the outset and invest in service expansion modules as you go. Integrate new revenue-generating applications into your portfolio just as swiftly; 2Wire partners with a variety of third-party developers to pre-certify next generation applications for the HomePortal GEM platform. Select and deploy new applications on your schedule, without the typical delays associated with full-scale application development.

Simplified Provisioning

The intelligent gateway is TR-069 standard-compliant, so modules can be deployed, activated, and managed remotely. Gateway expansion modules are customer-installable, so new services can be deployed without costly truck rolls or CPE replacements.

Deep Retail Device Integration

This platform enables an unprecedented level of integration with retail home networking and consumer electronics equipment. The platform’s open, standards-based approach means a broader range of consumer devices, from digital cameras and music players to motion sensors and NAS drives, are not only compatible with the platform but also manageable via the platform. This level of innate integration simplifies more facets of the digital lifestyle for your subscribers while also creating revenue-generating opportunities for extended support and management services.

Advanced Churn-Reducing, Revenue-Generating Services

Maximize opportunities to increase stickiness, revenue per user, and customer satisfaction while you define, optimize, and extend the capabilities of the digital home. Leverage the HomePortal GEM platform’s unique modularity, embedded application firmware stack, and a suite of retail devices and third party applications, to cost-effectively deploy next generation services like:

• Home Surveillance - Simplify the setup and use of home surveillance equipment, including multiple home viewing cameras and motion sensors.
• Home Automation - Enable your subscribers to utilize the broad capabilities of the digital home to remotely manage, control, and monitor any network-connected home system or appliance. Subscribers can easily set up home systems and conveniently manage system settings remotely.
• Digital Media Server - Liberate your subscribers’ media from individual PCs and media players with applications that allow your subscribers to access and stream their entire digital media library from any network-connected device.
• Digital Life Backup - GEM digital life backup applications securely retrieve subscribers’ media content from the home network and store it safely on the provider’s network for improved subscriber access and peace of mind.

Consistent User Experience

Unify all next generation broadband services and applications through a single intuitive user interface, customized for your brand and your offerings. The HomePortal GEM platform offers a consistent experience of every aspect of your service, helping subscribers familiarize themselves with new offerings faster. In addition, the fully integrated experience helps to build brand equity and subscriber loyalty.