IBM Home Director
By: Amanda Campbell
Updated: August 30, 2010
If you want to add a home office and some extra telephone lines or cable outlets after your home is built, you could end up spending thousands of dollars. But with a little planning when you are building a new home, you can wire your house to keep pace with the technologies of today and the next generation.
It may be hard to tell from the outside, but the wiring
inside many homes these days is designed to a 1950's standard. That means these homes are built for the days before people had more than one TV. Before there were home computers. Before there was an Internet. Before cable and satellite.
In today's Information Age, technology brings to the home unparalleled options for entertainment, education, and communication. However, to enjoy these benefits, the wiring in your house must be technology ready.
To bring your home up to the speed of your technology you need a Home Networking Foundation.
Home Director makes this possible with the Home Network Connection Center. With an advanced wiring foundation in place, you can add on new home applications like home management, Internet sharing and more!
HOME NETWORK CONNECTION CENTER:
IBM Home Director’s structured wiring hub is offered in three packages, with upgrade options, to accommodate your home networking needs.
Home Network Connection Center 3000 Package features:
Telephone Distribution: Supports flexible distribution of four lines in up to 24 wall plates. Quickly and easily change the location of phone, modem and fax lines for convenience and flexibility.
Cable and Satellite Distribution: Offers up to 16 amplified video inputs and outputs. Sends video signals from the VCR, cable or satellite in one room to any other television in the home.
Computer Networking: Allows you to connect up to four PC’s in your home. Share files, information and software between PC’s – even play head to head games with your kids.
Closed Circuit Television: Allows connection of up to four in-home cameras for monitoring and increased security. Even when you can’t be in two places at once, Home Director gives you the peace of mind to feel like you can.
* Home Network Connection Center 2000 Package features:
Telephone Distribution: Supports flexible distribution of four lines in up to 24 wall plates. Quickly and easily change the location of phone, modem and fax lines for convenience and flexibility.
Cable and Satellite Distribution: Offers up to 16 amplified video inputs and outputs. Sends video signals from the VCR, cable or satellite in one room to any other television in the home.
* Home Network Connection Center 1000 Package features:
Telephone Distribution: Supports flexible distribution of two lines in up to 8 wall plates. Quickly and easily change the location of phone, modem and fax lines for convenience and flexibility.
Cable or Antenna Distribution: Offers one video input and up to 6 amplified video outputs. With 6 locations for video or cable, every room can be wired to accommodate the entertainment, and the furniture.
* The Home Network Controller Home Management System Features:
Connect Common Home Systems: The Controller can be programmed to run lighting, temperature and appliance routines according to when you leave for the day, when you arrive home, and other scenarios. Imagine coming home to a lighted, comfortable house that welcomes to home.
Heating/Cooling Control: The Controller can follow temperature patterns for when you’re home, when you’re away, or even the time of day or season.
Intelligent Lighting: Wall switches throughout your home will allow you to control patterns of lights or individual lights throughout the home from one location. For example, you can turn off all the lights in the home before you go to bed from your master bedroom.
Simple and Flexible Control: You can control lighting and temperature routines from your wall switches, or start the routines from your television on the Home Director channel.
