Abstract
Recent home network revolution that has shifted to broadband and continuous connection is expected to cause reforming of the living environment and the industrial structure. “FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) Kanazawa Trial” was an experiment that realized an advance of the broad-band networks against the present network environment. The trial was the joint experiment between Matsushita corporations and NTT corporations. The joint experiment aimed at development and evaluation of the new Internet appliance. The trial team had developed “Home Gateway” prototype terminal. In addition to the web browsing, the terminal can play back the high quality contents known as MPEG2 and AAC, by a simple operation. The evaluation of the functions and operability of “Home Gateway” was carried out by the trial participants. This paper describes applications evaluating our new business model under broadband network environment, and discusses the future prospects of internet appliance based from the results of the trial.
