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VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 2009 ANNUAL REPORT
and MP3 players. Verizon’s Multi-Room DVR lets a customer use one set
top box to record programming and then watch it on up to six other
televisions in the home. Our sophisticated network technology also
enables the home network to fix itself and allows customers to use
self–diagnostic tools to improve performance.
Best of all, FiOS has begun to deliver the long-awaited promise
of interactive TV. We started with small Internet applications called
widgets that run weather and traffic reports, headline news, even social
networking on the TV screen. To encourage more of these services,
we’re working with Internet and programming leaders to deliver more
advanced applications for the biggest, best and most under-utilized
screen in the house: the wide-screen high-definition TV.
Going forward, the home network can be used as a platform
to deliver and manage applications for home security, energy
management, back-up storage, medical monitoring, emergency
response services and a host of other practical services.
A “home network” used to be a computer connected to a printer. Today
consumers have dozens of digital devices in their homes, most of
which are capable of sharing media in some way. As more devices and
applications enter the market, consumers need to be able to access
their media at anytime, anywhere and on any device.
This level of interconnectivity makes the home network look
more like a corporate network. Just like business customers need to
share data throughout their offices, consumers need to move their
photos, videos, music and movies between their digital devices.
Verizon’s FiOS service can simplify consumers’ lives by managing the
complexity of today’s home network and providing system diagnostics
from within our network.
FiOS customers can automatically discover connected devices,
whether they’re wired or wireless, and supervise the communications
among them. They can use their TVs to view pictures and videos stored
on their computers or access content directly from digital cameras
Creating the Advanced Home Network
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VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 2009 ANNUAL REPORT