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yeah I didn't hear the beep beep did it this is recording all right so I'm here in the TRENDnet suite at CES 2011 and they've got a bunch of really cool networking stuff on display so I want to start with their 450 megabit per second products so why don't we start on the left and move our way over to the right so most of these products are actually brand new and you can see the ones that are flagged with a CES launch badge are actually the ones that are launching here at CES so this is pretty cool this is actually a 450 megabit per second version of their gaming adapter so that allows you to have a high-speed wireless connection to not only a not only a gaming console but really anything that needs a network connection where you can't actually run a dedicated wire so here we have a concurrent dual band 450 megabit per second router you can see that actually you're going to see over the next little bit here that most of trend that's new products are using a very sleek glossy black sexy shell design and this is a far cry from the sort of blue that we used to see third of two three years ago so it's coming a long way in terms of the industrial design which is fairly obvious here we've got a 450 megabit per second access point this one's not new and also this guy right here is not new this was their their 450 megabit per second router they were first to market with a 450 megabit per second router so this product was a little bit ahead of its time you can actually buy it at NCIX it's already in stock so there's nothing that new or announced see about this one this has been a focus for TRENDnet over the last actually a CES last year they were talking a lot about green switches and they've got a great demo here that actually demonstrates we've got the green switch which is right here with the green stripe on it and this is the blue I was talking about you they've got one of their old switches and you can see the power consumption is up to 70% less with a green switch versus with their older non power-saving switches and not only that but now we've actually got green versions and you can see the greens whoops um break and everything you can see the green stripe here and the green branding on the front of this but this is actually a wireless and home router so we're able to reduce power consumption by about half with a wireless n router verse with a wireless and green router verses with a wireless n non power saving router and trend that's obviously not all of those switches and routers we've got their IP cameras so we've got a few products here that are new some that aren't new and some that are like run new because they're not even released yet so let's check out this one first we've got their TV IP 612 series of cameras and I want to show you guys exactly how smooth the recording is on this particular camera it has a 10x optical zoom it pens 330 degrees side-to-side and tilts 115 degrees up and down which is pretty outstanding this is a wireless end camera although it is plugged in via ethernet right now but if you just want to point the cameras that's right the recording is on this camera now there's also a power over ethernet version of it which is pretty much the same thing except Pio II instead of wireless and moving down we have some cameras here that are not quite as new such as the TV IP 512 WN which I do remember from last year at CES now they have some new wireless end cameras coming as well so these are more consumer oriented models you can see these ones don't feature remote adjustment of where they're pointed at although we do have infrared models as well as some higher-end ones that do feature side to side as well as tilt functionality and infrared lighting on them as well also taking powerline Ethernet very very seriously and they've launched recently their 500 megabit per second powerline AV adapter here the box that's what it looks like so 500 and megabit per second is a first on the market and a first for TRENDnet in real world you're probably looking at about 200 megabytes per second and/or true about 200 megabit per second and change but the reality of it is most powerline adapters are not going to get anywhere near their rated throughput it's a limitation of the technology and really that speed is more than adequate for HD streaming and even file transfers I've criticized powerline a lot in the past for having great latency so it's great for gaming but for not having great thorough put well now you can actually transfer large files over it as well so moving along this week we finally got some more consumer products we have a few 3G wireless n router so these are great if you want to plug in for example a t-mobile stick and then share your connection with other people I mean 3G is not that fast so you're probably looking at a limitation of sort of three or four people using it at a time but it could be handy if you're traveling like with one other person you guys want to share an internet connection in your room and last but not least we have the consumer level Wireless stuff so we've got a few wireless n routers 300 megabits per second concurrent dual-band router this is sort of less exciting and this is what we find at the back of the suite as opposed to the front of this week where we found all the 400 megabits per second stuff but this is still good - we've also got a few little cool adapters don't so this one is ultra compact this one is ultra compact so these are both wireless I believe these are both wireless n yeah these are both Wireless N and then finally we have the world's smallest so this is a I don't know I micro compact whatever they want to call it it's less than the size of an actual USB plug in so that's pretty cool as well and oh this one this one I'm really excited about so this is the wireless end gaming adapter remember I showed you guys the 450 megabit per second version over at the front of the suite so this is the older one and this one's going to be coming down to a lower price point remember it works with Wii Xbox and Playstation but also pretty much anything else that needs a network connection but this this is the one that's really exciting this is a cool product so this has a built-in switch okay and it is also a wireless and media bridge so there are similar products on the market for things like powerline where you have multiple ports on one side and then you have a powerline connection running maybe to your main router but this one actually runs off of wireless n so this is really cool so the trend that has to say for themselves here is that it works with network enabled blu-ray players televisions DVRs game consoles it'll work with computers pretty much anything that needs a connection to your network and is not convenient to access via a wired connection or via powerline so thank you for checking out my little video about the products that are on display in the TRENDnet suite don't forget to subscribe to 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