What is Home Gateway ?

The smart home network is another high-tech product brought to people by the information age. It uses the existing computer network technology to connect various home appliances and devices in the home, and provides people with rich, diverse, personalized, convenient, comfortable, safe and efficient services through the network. Home networking is also an important part of the entire social informationization. Realizing the exchange of information between the family and the external information of the family is undoubtedly the purpose of family networking. Its implementation requires the design of an ideal home gateway.

The main functions of Home Gateway

(1) As a physical interface that connects all external access networks to the home and connects the home internal network to the outside;

(2) A platform for residential users to access a variety of home services, including existing services and services that may arise in the future.

Setting up the Home Gateway

manual setting

The manual setting of the home gateway is suitable for the case where the number of computers is relatively small and the TCP/IP parameters are basically unchanged, for example, there are only a few to a dozen computers. Because this method requires setting up a “home gateway” on each computer connected to the network, it is very laborious. Once the IP address of the default gateway has to be modified due to migration, etc., it will cause great trouble to the network management, so recommended use.

auto configuration

The automatic setting is to use the DHCP server to automatically assign IP addresses, subnet masks and default gateways to computers on the network. The advantage of this is that once the default gateway of the network changes, as long as the default gateway settings in the DHCP server are changed, all computers on the network get the IP address of the new default gateway. This method is suitable for networks with large network sizes and possible changes in TCP/IP parameters.

Home Gateway deployment

The deployment of the gateway device in the home network includes two aspects, one is a physical connection configuration, and the other is an initial service configuration. At present, almost all gateway devices support WLAN wireless connection, and management channel parameters and management access parameters can be pre-configured when the gateway is shipped from the factory, and other service parameters can be remotely configured and opened. Therefore, the configuration of the gateway device can basically achieve zero-touch configuration, only the business hall issues the gateway device to the customer, the customer homes to connect the telephone line, and connects to other specific terminal devices (such as set-top boxes, telephones, etc.) according to the port indication, and the device is powered. After the gateway device is deployed, the gateway management system performs remote service configuration and provisioning for the home gateway.

RicherLink Home Gateway Product