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Residential gateways open the way to a wide variety of home-based Net devices.
They connect both to the Internet, typically via a broadband connection, and to all devices networked in the home. The gateways will support three common standards of phone line and electrical line networking in the home. The residential gateways also support telemetry e-services, which give common household devices an interface to the Internet. This enables, for instance, users to monitor the temperature of their homes while they are away. The series will be available in the third quarter of the year.