WHDI

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WHDI Wireless Home Digital
Interface A New Industry Standardfor Wireless
HDTV Connectivity Noam Geri Co-Founder, VP
Marketing Business Development AMIMON Inc.
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WHDI Wireless Home Digital Interface -
Introduction

• WHDI THE NEW STANDARD FOR ENABLING SEAMLESS
  SHARING OF CONTENT BETWEEN ALL MULTIMEDIA
  DEVICES, SOURCES AND DISPLAYS, WITHIN THE HOME
  OFFICE
• ENABLING WHOLE-HOME WIRELESS UNCOMPRESSED HD
  VIDEO, AUDIO and CONTROL

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WHDI - A New Industry Standard for Whole-Home
Wireless Audio/Video/Control Connectivity
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Enabling New Opportunities for Consuming Content
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Wireless Uncompressed HDTV using WHDI

• WHDI - a unique video-modem approach
• Operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band, using MIMO
• Uncompressed 1080p, UXGA using 40MHz bandwidth
• Uncompressed 1080i, 720p, WXGA using 20MHz
  bandwidth
• Range of over 30 meters through walls
• Less than 1 millisecond latency
• Strong 256-bit AES encryption
• Same quality as an HDMI cable
• How is this possible?

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WHDI Transmission Optimized for A/V Links
Instantaneous noise-limited wireless channel
capacity
Wireless Channel Quality
Weaker Protection for Least Significant Video Bits
Video Channel Graceful Adaptation To Channel
Noise
Stronger Protection for Most Significant Video
Bits What Visually Matters the Most
Audio Channel
Completely Secured Channel for Audio Streaming
Control Channel
Completely Secured Channel for Control Data
Time
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WHDI at CES 2008 SONY, BELKIN Others
SONY Embedded Wireless 1080p HDTV
SONY BRAVIA Wireless Link SONY TV Digital Media
Extender (DMeX)
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WHDI Security Proposal

• Video rendering/Display Interface not for
  recording
• Limited to Localized Environment
• Inherent wireless limitation to local/home
  environment
• Registration and Authentication
• Ensure connections are between devices within the
  home/personal domain
• 2048 bit RSA Key Exchange
• Revocation
• Audio and Video encryption
• Strong 256 bit AES encryption
• Existing, Industry approved CP protocols under
  consideration

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Noam Geri VP Marketing Business
Development AMIMON Inc. Cell
650-305-0600 Email noam.geri_at_amimon.com