CES 2012 Netgear Press Conference - Completed

We'll be live blogging the Netgear press conference starting at 1pm EST (10am PST). Please stay tuned, and until then check out the below images which we suspect will be the new products announced.

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Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Welcome to this Neowin.net live event. Coverage will begin shortly.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White The press conference will start in roughly 30 minutes.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White We will be starting in 15 minutes.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White We should be starting shortly.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White And we're starting.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Dave Henry, VP of product management for Netgear.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 2011 was an amazing, although challenging, year. Over 75 products were launched in 2011.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White #1 in US, Europe, and Austrailia. Over $1B in revenue.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 8 new products announced at CES -- 3 of which are Innovation award winners.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White NETGEAR Smart Network - the network of the future

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Is the PC dead?

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Some say yes, some say it's simply evolving. Doesn't matter though because hte number of devices on the network is changing and posing new challenges.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Multiple gaming consoles, phones, tablets, home theater, TV.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Not uncommon in today's landscape.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White The number of homes wit hmore than six devices connected to the internet grew 70% from 2010 to 2011.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Over 50% of internet traffic in the home is "real time entertainment" (streaming video, online games, music, etc)

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White And the devices that do this is usually something other than a PC.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Not only do we need fast networks, we need more - Complete Conectivity:

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White ) Consistant and reliable in all places in the home

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 2) Fast and high performance

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 3) Easy to use

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White How do you extend the connection to avoid wifi dead spots in your house?

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Universal Dual Band WiFi range extender from Netgear.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Announced here at CES.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Plug in the device halfway between the dead spot and the main wireless router, then press a button.

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Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Works with both 2.4 and 5GHz WiFi bands simultaneously.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White FastLane technology - maintain best speeds everywhere. Also has 4 ethernet ports.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Sounds pretty nice and easy - just like the ypromised.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White No stated price though.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Worried about dat aloss? Look at the Media Storage Router from Netgear. Connect. Store. Stream

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Supports Apple Time Machine and Windows backup. 2TB storage, DLNA enabled, and ReadyShare Cloud access.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Backs up all of your PCs and Macs automatically.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White N900 dual band 2.4 and 5 Ghz, 2 USB 3.0 ports, firewall security

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Also lets you tunnel in to view files both inside and outside of the house.

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Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Basically it sounds like Windows Home Server that backs up Macs as well - kinda nice.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Complete Connectivity for your Home Theater

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White NeoTV streaming player - turns the TV you already have into a "Smart TV" so you can stream content.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Sounds like their answer for Roku.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White But they're taking NeoTV and moving it forward. Even more rich content - Hulu+, available today.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White You can control the NeoTV wit ha smartphone app - that's something Roku doesn't do. Kinda cool.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Announcing today thatwill also have Intel Wireless Display (Intel WiDi).

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White You can project your laptop screen directly onto your TV in full 1080p with the NeoTV box. Kinda cool.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White N900 Video and Gaming 4-port WiFi adapter.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Gives better wireless connectivity to your TV

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Dual band, up to 450mbps

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White In addition, Powerline 500 Nano for ethernet over power line.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White For those who don't want to go wireless. Up to 500mbps!

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Plug one end by the theater, the other by your source, and you'r edone. And the device is tiny.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Netgear Genie -- a deskto papplication that runs on your Mac/PC and monitors, controls, and manages your network automatically.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White This was released last year.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White The Netgear genie app is now a mobile app.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Second CES innovation award winner for 2012.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White App gives you control to parental controls, traffic meter, guest access, media, and more.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Guest access gives people access only to the internet - for when visitors need access but you don't want them snooping your network. I wonder how well that works.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Can kick people off of the network easily as well - highlight them, click "turn off" and done. :)

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White The "My Media" function turns the phone into a remote control. Access all DLNA shares around your home network.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Streams all data instantly to the TV - NOT on the phone. Similar to Toshiba's tablet app they were showing last night.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White I take that back -- he just said you CAN stream content to the phone/tablet.

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Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Available for iOS and Android. Ok, that's pretty cool.

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Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Can also turn any USB printer into an AirPrint printer.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 802.11ac

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Wireless speeds up to 1.35Gbps,

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White 802.11n is only 450Mbps

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White WiFi future - 80111ac products wlil be available THIS year.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Powerline getting faster too -- Homeplug 82 bringing powerline speeds over 1 Gbps -- Netgear will bring these to market when they're available (not yet).

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White "Complete Connectivity Gets Smarter"

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White The Smart Network

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Making apps for the network routers to improve and enhance the experience of all of hte devices on the network.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Three components -- smart devices (network devices, media players, etc), intelligent cloud app server, and an open app development platform.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White This gives developers the ability to write apps that run on Netgear Smart Network.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Login to the smart network and see all smart devices (Router N900 and ReadyNAS Pro 6, for example)

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Click on apps and you can see all of the apps. In this example, we see ReadySHARE printer, cloud, and home monitoring.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White I'm on the video. :)

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Also recommends apps for you -- broadcband usage meter, for example.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Gives realtime visibility of bandwidth consumed and how much you have left.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White Extend the value of the ntwork gear.

Jan 9, 2012 Christopher White http://www.netgear.com/smartnetwork -- get more information today.

Jan 9, 2012 Doug Bemis