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Residential gateways connect a home network to the Internet.
Their increasing popularity will unleash a torrent of new services for home users, according to the study. The study predicts that residential gateways will evolve to provide complex, integrated services to the home via broadband connections. The emerging importance of the gateways depends on broadband connectivity becoming pervasive, the study said. It will also depend on broadband service providers seeing the gateways and the services they manage as opportunities to offer value-added services and differentiation. Please e-mail us with your comments, questions and press releases.