Associations
Being an active participant in industry associations is important to Pulse~LINK. We enjoy having the opportunity to share our knowledge with other technology insiders and play a role in creating specifications designed to enable the whole home interactive HD experience.
High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA)
Founding members of the High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) include many of the worlds leading content providers, service providers, IT and CE companies. HANAs objectives are to create industry design guidelines using existing technology and specifications that will enable consumers to simultaneously view, pause and record up to five HD channels from anywhere in the home regardless of where the content is located while preserving quality of service and content protection. HDTVs.
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
DLNA is a unique, international, cross-industry collaboration of leading consumer electronics, computing industry and mobile device companies. DLNA member companies share a vision of a wired and wireless interoperable network of PCs, CE and mobile devices in the home and on the road, enabling a seamless environment for sharing new digital media and content services. To this end, DLNA is focused on delivering an interoperability framework of design guidelines based on open industry standards.
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) membership unites 2,000 companies within the U.S. consumer technology industry. CEA is the industry authority on market research and forecasts, consumer surveys, legislative and regulatory news, engineering standards, training resources and more. CEA makes an ongoing effort to grow the CE industry by developing essential industry standards and technical specifications to enable interoperability between new products hitting the market and existing devices.
Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)
The Continental Automated Building Association (CABA) is dedicated to advancing integrated systems in homes and buildings, encouraging the creation of industry-wide interoperability of protocols and standards, and serving as a preferred source of industry information and knowledge. CABA recently integrated the Internet Home Alliance (IHA), a cross-industry network of leading companies engaged in collaborative research to advance the connected home space. IHA research projects enable participating companies to gain important insights into the connected home space and leverage those insights into viable new business objectives.
IEEE 1394 Trade Association (1394TA)
The 1394 Trade Association, founded in 1994, supports the development of computer and consumer electronics systems that can be easily connected with each other via a single serial multimedia link. The IEEE 1394 multimedia connection enables simple, low-cost, high bandwidth isochronous (real time) data interfacing between computers, peripherals, and consumer electronics products such as camcorders, VCRs, printers, PCs, TVs, and digital cameras. With IEEE 1394-compatible products and systems, users can transfer video or still images from cameras or camcorders to printers, PCs, or televisions, with no image degradation. The 1394 Trade Association includes more than 170 companies and continues to grow.
