I am quite excited to get my hands on these features. These are 

capabilities which every router should have.





corporate.comcast.com

Introducing a Whole New Way to Manage Your Digital Home

PHILADELPHIA, PA

In the same way that Comcast used X1 to change the way people experience 

television, the company today previewed a new, whole-home networking 

solution at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show that will provide 

customers with a simple, fast and intuitive way to control and manage 

their Digital Home and the devices connected to it. The cloud-based 

platform, which will be included at no extra cost for customers with a 

Comcast Wi-Fi Gateway device, delivers fast and reliable connectivity in 

the home and provides an intuitive user experience that allows people to 

easily add devices, pause device use during dinnertime, pair Wi-Fi 

extenders that boost signal strength and use voice controls to see who’s 

on the network, all in a safe and secure way.

The new experience will be automatically enabled in the first half of 

2017 for the approximately 10 million existing Xfinity Internet 

customers who have a compatible Xfinity Wireless Gateway. That number is 

expected to grow to more than 15 million by the end of the year as 

Comcast’s new Advanced Wireless Gateway becomes available to customers. 

This Advanced Gateway is capable of delivering up to nine gigabits per 

second over Wi-Fi within the home, supports voice, home monitoring and 

automation applications and will be the device Comcast uses to make one 

gigabit per second Internet speeds available across its entire service 

area.

Comcast will demonstrate their new, whole-home networking solution for 

the first time at the Intel booth at CES - LVCC, Central Hall South, # 

7252 - from January 5-8 in Las Vegas. The first version of Comcast’s new 

Advanced Gateway is based on the Intel® Puma™ 7 SoC. Comcast and Intel 

share a common vision for the Digital Home and are working together to 

drive standards within the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) that 

address interoperability and support innovative technologies that will 

further transform the home experience.

Comcast’s new platform can be controlled via web, mobile app and the X1 

voice remote and includes the following features:

•

Get Started. Take A Picture. To set-up your in-home Xfinity experience 

and Wi-Fi gateway, just scan the QR code of the Wi-Fi Gateway with the 

app or log on to the web portal, and set up an easy-to-remember username 

and password. Then start personalizing and categorizing all the 

connected devices in the house. New devices can be added at any time.

•

Whole Home Connectivity. Leverages Comcast’s powerful Wi-Fi Gateway with 

attractive, compact, no-configuration Wi-Fi extenders to deliver 

connectivity throughout the home. Users can also test Wi-Fi signal 

strength, ensure the Gateway and devices are positioned for the best 

connectivity, run task-based, Wi-Fi health checks by device and 

self-resolve issues.

•

Easy Onboarding & Monitoring. Personalize devices by owner or category 

and monitor how frequently and for how long each device and owner are 

using the in-home Wi-Fi network - all viewable on one dashboard. The 

platform’s secure cloud also allows for automatic home network 

onboarding for compatible devices.

•

Scheduler, Bedtime Mode and Instant Pause. Make customized rules and 

schedules (i.e. - "Bobby can’t access the internet on his laptop after 8 

p.m. on weeknights"), put the whole house into "bedtime mode" where all 

Wi-Fi connectivity is blocked to specific devices after a certain time; 

or even pause all device use during dinnertime.

•

Voice & TV Integration. Works with Xfinity X1 and the voice remote - for 

example, say "who is on the network?" into the remote, and a list of all 

connected devices in the house is displayed on the TV screen.

•

Safe. Secure. Provides a first line of defense against phishing and 

malware by setting up automatic protections for customers and their 

family. This is especially important for those IoT devices that lack 

screens and cannot install individual protection software. Plus, simple 

and powerful parental controls make it easy to protect family members 

from inappropriate content.

"Digital Home connectivity today should be as intuitive and dynamic as 

the devices and experiences it powers," said Chris Satchell, Executive 

Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Comcast Cable. "People want to 

connect and control the products and devices in their home, quickly and 

easily. By creating this new home solution and offering it to millions 

of people as a part of their existing internet subscription, our 

combination of speed, personalized controls, features and devices has 

the potential to make the Internet of Things and the Digital Home more 

of a reality than ever."

Comcast also has plans to make this new platform available to its 

syndication partners later in 2017.

The number of connected devices in the home is expected to rise to 50 by 

2020. An easy Digital Home solution gives consumers a secure and 

consistent way to onboard, manage and control them all and removes a 

common customer pain point that potentially helps to support broader 

adoption of connected devices and the Internet of Things.

Intel and Puma are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries 

in the U.S. and/or other countries.





-- 

           David Goldfield,

       Assistive Technology Specialist



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