This document describes the general guidelines for typical applications of the home multimedia gateway in home networks supporting IP networking.

This document specifies recommended functions and services to be supported by the home multimedia gateway and, where appropriate, refers to existing standards supported in the market. For general requirements, it is expected that widely adopted standards and technologies will be considered by implementers.

This document gives supplementary applications to the IEC 62481 series, which specifies a central management model in home networks supporting various interfaces on the LAN side and on the WAN side (optional).

This document is applicable to home multimedia gateways in the home network or networks of similar environments.