The latest semiconductor vendor to join Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) consortium is Freescale Semiconductor.

"Freescale supports key industry efforts such as MoCA that simplify distribution of triple-play content throughout the home," said Nikolay Guenov, worldwide vertical marketing manager for Freescale's fixed consumer segment. "This technology helps create demand for content delivery and playback devices by streamlining the connection between residential gateway portals and end-point devices."

"For decades, Freescale has been a leading supplier of silicon for many products that can also use the MoCA specification. They are a crucial silicon integration and cost reduction source that the industry welcomes," said Ladd Wardani, president of MoCA. "Freescale's
membership is another endorsement of the MoCA specification as the key standard for delivering digital entertainment in and around the home using existing coaxial cabling."

Earlier this month, Texas Instruments also announced its support for the organization. “By joining MoCA, TI demonstrates commitment to reducing the complexity that service providers and customers face as broadband and consumer electronics products converge,” said Kurt Eckles, director of marketing and customer support for TI’s Residential Gateway and Embedded Systems business unit. “TI’s membership in MoCA supports our strategy of using industry recognized, open standards to accelerate delivery of easy to use triple play services throughout the home.”

MoCA is an in-home wired network for triple play that offers all of the requirements of a standard, including large scale field trials followed by mass deployment, a reasonable and non discriminatory (RAND) licensing environment and multiple ongoing certification waves.