DS2 400Mbps technology will be available in next generation products from DS2 on time to satisfy the demands for extra bandwidth in the digital home and last mile applications that most analysts predict will happen from 2009 onwards. Next generation multimedia applications including multi-room IPTV and HDTV networked entertainment services, networked PVRs (personal video recorders) and multiple video streams will require bandwidth sufficient to support five or more simultaneous video streams.

A recent study from the Diffusion Group on "Bandwidth Challenges to the Digital Home" (2007), confirmed that the need for bandwidth sufficient to deliver at least three HDTV and two SDTV streams to the home is foreseen as early as 2009.

DS2's 400Mbps technology will be compatible with existing 200Mbps products from DS2, ensuring a seamless migration path for existing users and designs, and will comply with the evolving standards. This quantum leap in performance is slated for 2009.