Ooma uses a base station and "satellite" switches (called Scouts) to de-centralize your Home Phone Network (I'm trademarking that, don't try it).
"This is where we decided to centralize the home-furnishing businesses," he said, "and where we decided to change the names of our other stores to Macy's".
Others challenge the PC makers' centralized "mainframe in the home" vision of the personal computer as a hub for controlling all of the data expected to be flowing into houses to provide information, entertainment and other digital services in the years ahead.
The windows of apartment buildings still sprout air-conditioning units like a citywide fungal infection every summer, since centralized air conditioning in private homes remains a relative luxury in New York City.
NEEO is a dedicated device that includes a remote, as well as a brain to centralize control of your home, including your home theater equipment as well as connected gadgets like the Nest, Philips Hue and more.
Are they centralized or de-centralized?
"Aereo uses its own equipment, housed in a centralized warehouse, outside of its users' homes," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the majority opinion; using this equipment to provide its service is enough to constitute a performance.
The developed system is particularly desired for resource poor settings, for example, developing countries, outside centralized laboratories, doctor's offices and homes, to relieve the requirements for laboratory facilities and trained personnel.
The evolution in this study village from home-based operations towards centralized and larger-scale operations outside the village has not proved sufficient to eliminate the problems.
