While wireless experts all over the world are going gaga over the rise of wireless technologies, a new report from IMS Research states that the use of wired solutions, particularly ‘no-new-wires‘, is on the rise and forecast to experience a boom over the next five years.

Although IPTV (News - Alert) provided the initial boost for ‘no-new-wire’ networking, the technology will get its second wind from multi-room DVR services, the report states. This trend will be visible particularly in the US where a number of high profile US TV service providers have started purchasing and supplying multi-room HD DVR solutions with MoCA built into the set-top box, the report states.

IMS Research was founded in 1989 and publishes hundreds of reports annually, and sells to more than 40 countries worldwide.

“Although ‘no-new-wire’ technologies such as HomePlug, HomePNA (News - Alert) and MoCA have been around for many years now, they’ve remained relatively niche up until recently,” stated the report’s author, Alex Green. “However, the accelerating uptake of IPTV services has fuelled significant growth in this area. Services from companies such as Verizon (News - Alert) and AT&T have pushed the use of these ‘no-new-wire’ technologies up significantly, which has been particularly good news for the main IC suppliers”

But the emergence of these technologies has resulted in the development of two “unifying” ‘no-new-wire’ technologies – the ITU’s G.Hn and the IEEE’s (News - Alert) P1901 standards, the report states. Also, there was an announcement earlier this year of a “formal liaison” between the MoCA Alliance and the HomePlug (News - Alert) Powerline Alliance, which only added to the already existing confusion, the report states.

In February 2010, the company published a report where it stated that shipments of consumer devices that can be powered or charged wirelessly are likely to grow from just 1.5 million in 2009 to almost 1 billion in 2019. The “wireless power” industry has increased significantly over the last two years and the market is now poised for explosive growth, says the research firm in its report.