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	OpenCable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		OpenCable is a set of specifications created by CableLabs to "Define the next-generation of advanced digital cable-ready devices".
		OpenCable uses SCTE standards for the video, transport and various interface requirements, but also adds a requirement for a Java based interpreter and an encryption system employing CableCARDs.
		With OpenCable a consumer can use a MPEG-2 decoder from either company and the cable company can switch between the system at only the cost of the decryption card for each consumer and the backend costs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OpenCable (261 words)

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		In addition to OpenCable interoperability events, considerable bilateral activity has occurred and is occurring between individual vendors in preparation for the interoperability events.
		In fact, manufacturers of set-top boxes are free to incorporate their own unique features in those boxes, as do existing set-top box manufacturers, as long as the boxes work with the services, features, and functions offered by the purchaser's cable system and do not jeopardize signal security or cause harm to the network.
		This is because (1) the OpenCable effort upon which the FCC said it would rely for the development of specifications was at that time only addressing separation of security from non-security functions in set-top boxes, not in integrated DTV sets, and (2) there were no such sets available when the July 1 deadline was imposed.
	www.fcc.gov /mb/equip7700.txt (4688 words)

	CableLabs® Selects Scientific-Atlanta To Support OpenCable™ System Integration
		OpenCable™ is a cable industry initiative which seeks to obtain and deploy a family of interoperable advanced digital set-top boxes from various manufacturers.
		OpenCable™ seeks to achieve specifications for an open architecture that will allow multiple operating systems and microprocessors to be employed.
		CableLabs is managing the OpenCable™ specification writing process on behalf of its cable operator members.
	www.cablelabs.com /news/pr/1998/1998_01_22.html (478 words)

	Digital TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		We are a key contributor to the European DVB and U.S. OpenCable standards-setting organizations which develop the technical specifications for open digital receivers and decryption devices.
		SCM co-authored the specifications for the U.S. OpenCable CableCARD decryption modules, which are scheduled to be deployed throughout the U.S. cable system by 2005 and in Korea as early as 2004.
		The aim of OpenCable is to foster competition among suppliers for key elements of digital cable networks, while ensuring interoperability of devices connected to cable networks.
	www.scmmicro.com /dvb (1369 words)

	PCWorld.com - PC/Cable TV Merge Is One Step Closer
		Today's cable TV set-top boxes are proprietary and contain all of the computer smarts and security technology cable companies use to convert signals and prevent their content from being stolen.
		OpenCable provides for moving most of the digital process to the PC, while security resides on credit card-sized PC cards that plug in like keys.
		OpenCable also will allow big cable companies such as Cox and Time Warner to offer retail products nationally, competing more directly against alternative technologies like direct digital satellite and fiber-optic phone systems.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,16269,00.asp (511 words)

	O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf - OpenCable Architecture
		OpenCable Architecture is the only resource available that discusses the new standard, OpenCable, which brings digital TV, data, and interactivity to the TV.
		The book will concentrate on the OpenCable Network Architecture (the headend, optical transport, distribution hub, hybrid-fiber coax, and set-top terminal equipment) and describe how these components are interconnected.
		Although I have been reading a lot of OpenCable documents, there was a wish to have a book that gave the overview and connected the pieces together.
	safari.oreilly.com /?XmlId=1-57870-135-X (668 words)

	Communications Technology: Archive
		The OpenCable Interop (OCI) process identifies interfaces as being needed at four points: between the POD module and host (OCI-C2); between an OpenCable-compatible headend and host (OCI-N); between the host and a digital consumer device (OCI-C1); and within the host between applications and any operating platform or system software (middleware).
		Forrester analyst Rhinelander, the under-whelmed set-top prophet, puts OpenCable in perspective this way: "It’s kind of a baby step for the industry, but it’s an important baby step." By implication, the cable industry is moving beyond crawling to walking, and may eventually reach running speed.
		In April, OpenCable began the first of two six-week certification waves, the second of which is scheduled to end June 30.
	www.cableworld.com /ct2/archives/0600/0600fe9.htm (2430 words)

	CES Aside, Where's Integrated TV? - Broadband Week 01/22/2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		OpenCable is the cable industry initiative to define the next generation of digital cable set-tops and other devices with an eye toward creating a true consumer retail market for the hardware necessary to receive cable programming.
		The same certification process will apply to OpenCable television sets, he says, noting that the average development cycle for a consumer electronic product is at least 18 months.
		Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta have applied for OpenCable set-top box certification, and eight more companies are testing their box designs in pre-certification dry runs at CableLabs.
	www.broadbandweek.com /news/010122/print/010122_cable_itv.htm (909 words)

	OpenCable closing in on a standard - 11/1/1998 - CED - CA6261351 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Twenty-three companies responded with enough consensus that by November 1997, the Executive Committee had decided on some key elements and was ready to engage warp engines and explore worlds of cooperation the industry had never seen before.
		Now, says Laurie Schwartz, director of advanced platforms and services at CableLabs, as the OpenCable effort closes in on a final specification, cooperation and participation is about to pay off for all concerned.
		She says a draft was finished "with a lot of help of a couple of key consumer electronic manufacturers" and passed onto CEMA (the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association) in the beginning of October.
	www.cedmagazine.com /article/CA6261351.html (1282 words)

	Great Engadget Article on CableCARD / OpenCable and TiVo - TiVo Community
		OpenCable will free people from the repressive shackles of their cable boxes.
		Thus the OpenCable system and CableCARD, the hardware that allows a TV or a set-top box to hook up to it, were born.
		OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform) and OpenCable Host Device Specifications were developed by CableLabs to allow cable companies to push both their “look and feel” and their features to consumer electronics devices.
	www.tivocommunity.com /tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=2789816&& (2485 words)

	MediaOne(R) Selects Initial Partners to Deliver OpenCable(TM) Platform; Initial Partners Include Canal+, DiviCom, ...
		As part of that expansion, GI has committed to evolve the digital systems that it supplies to MediaOne to incorporate the international open system consistent with the other technology partners, scheduled to be accomplished in collaboration with those partners by the first quarter of 2000.
		OpenCable is important because it allows operators to accommodate hardware and software from a variety of vendors without proprietary technological constraints.
		MediaOne's OpenCable platform will be compliant with the OpenCable specifications developed by CableLabs, and supports multiple conditional access technologies.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-08-1999/0000865327&EDATE= (1335 words)

	Media Visions - iTV \| OpenCable TV
		Satisfying both the OpenCable requirements and the requirements for retail competition among CE products, say observers, will not be easy.
		A certified OpenCable box sold anywhere in America is supposed to work on any OpenCable-compliant cable headend elsewhere in the United States.
		Next comes the OpenCable certification process for set-top manufacturers, a cycle of development and testing that averages about a year for DOCSIS cable modems, he reports.
	www.media-visions.com /itv-opencable.html (795 words)

	Microsoft Signs OpenCable Agreement
		It is anticipated that any new functionality will add capability to the OpenCable Application Platform but maintain backward compatibility with OCAP versions 1.0 and 2.0.
		OCAP is part of the OpenCable initiative, which is managed by CableLabs.
		OpenCable is designed to provide a set of industry specifications that will help: (1) Define next-generation consumer digital devices; (2) Encourage supplier competition, and (3) Create a retail hardware platform.
	www.cablelabs.com /news/pr/2003/03_pr_ocap_microsoft_060503.html (539 words)

	Communications Technology: Archive
		The OpenCable project at CableLabs is a whirlwind of activity, as a team of engineers labors toward the goal of seeing interoperable digital set-tops—conforming with a completed OpenCable spec—on retailers’ shelves by July 2000.
		The OpenCable project, launched in late 1997, seeks to open up the market to competing suppliers of next-generation technology and to encourage innovation in services that can be delivered over digital set-tops.
		Another area in which OpenCable and CEMA engineers collaborated and achieved substantial consensus was on supporting the same signal set for command-and-control signaling—which is how the OpenCable box, TV set and video recorder control one another’s activities as needed.
	www.cableworld.com /ct2/archives/0299/ct0299e.htm (1543 words)

	The Cable Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		OpenCable is an initiative led by CableLabs on behalf of its members, seeking to set a common set of requirements for interoperable digital set-top boxes, television receivers and other advanced digital devices manufactured by multiple vendors.
		An OpenCable device is an OpenCable-compliant digital set-top converter or cable ready digital television receiver, allowing reception of existing cable television channels and providing the user interface for future, interactive applications.
		A framework of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for communication between different systems made by different vendors, in which the communications process is organized into seven different categories that are placed in a layered sequence based on their relationship to the user.
	www.cablecenter.org /education/library/glossaryO.cfm (858 words)

	Wired News:
		"OpenCable is still working on the specs," said Bill Brobst, spokesman for Scientific Atlanta, the number two supplier of set-top cable boxes in North America.
		But some industry analysts believe that, at this point, the details of the standards will probably be moot, given the products that are slated for release in coming months.
		Indeed, Henderson believes that the adoption of the OpenCable standards are not the reason products have yet to hit consumer households.
	www.wired.com /news/business/1,8763-0.html (1087 words)

	Interop Issues - Broadband Week 01/22/2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A significant aspect of OpenCable is its specifications for interoperable hardware interfaces for retail set-tops and TVs with those functions integrated into the set.
		A certified OpenCable box sold anywhere in America is supposed to work with any OpenCable-compliant headend elsewhere in the land.
		Another critical step toward national cable standardization is the OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP), the U.S. cable standard for interactive TV (iTV) middleware, slated for release by the end of this month.
	www.broadbandweek.com /news/010122/print/010122_cable_open.htm (237 words)

	OpenCable—Project Primer
		The OpenCable team continues to develop advanced profiles and extensions to enable manufacturers to create innovative products and services.
		OpenCable “Issued” specifications are available to the public.
		The OpenCable specifications also form the core of the “Plug & Play” agreement between cable and consumer electronics manufacturers for unidirectional cable devices, and are the subject of FCC Rules governing televisions and other devices labeled digital cable ready (DCR).
	www.opencable.com /primer (420 words)

	Attack of the PODs
		POD modules are the key to the architecture developed by CableLabs' OpenCable project to achieve interoperability of digital cable set-top boxes.
		Under the OpenCable project, CableLabs researchers began working on a design that would meet the government's requirements for modular security features.
		OpenCable issued a request for proposal for software specifications in September and currently is working on a draft version of that design.
	telephonyonline.com /mag/telecom_attack_pods (1476 words)

	Open Cable to Revolutionise European Cable Industry
		OpenCable, the US initiative aimed at obtaining a new generation of set-top boxes that are interoperable, will be rolled out across Europe in 1999 and will transform the European digital cable market.
		While it is still a concept, it will become the de facto standard for digital cable and those operators that do not start preparing and planning now may well be disadvantaged when competing in this new digital world.
		The key question the European industry should be asking itself now, Trott believes, is not whether OpenCable will be a success, but what impact it will have on the European digital cable industry.
	www.pace.co.uk /Corporate/newsroom/pacenewsitem.asp?id=309&template=0 (275 words)

	PaulAllen.com
		The agreement is the culmination of more than two years of extensive evaluation and technical reviews performed by the two entities under the CableLabs OpenCable process to develop specifications and test suites for the new solution.
		The specified OpenCable architecture allows for multiple DRM systems to be used in the device and ensures content providers of protected delivery of content to the PC.
		The OpenCable project will continue to play an important role as the new agreement moves forward, allowing the cable industry to work closely with the consumer electronics and IT industries to innovate rapidly on the new specifications developed by Microsoft and CableLabs.
	www.paulallen.com /Template2.aspx?recNo=2482 (613 words)

	Techieindex :::: Articles
		OpenCable defines standards for the hardware and software platforms required to support interactive television services over cable networks.
		In the OpenCable environment, the subscriber purchases the host device of his or her choice (an OpenCable-compliant set-top box or television, for instance).
		The OpenCable CPS secures the transfer of copy-protected content, such as pay-per-view or video-on-demand, between a POD and an end-user host device; this prevents unauthorized reproduction.
	www.techie.techieindex.com /techie/articles/details.jsp?id=194 (924 words)

	EEProductCenter.com :: Press Release :: CableLabs Awards CableCARD Qualification to Motorola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The cable industry, through OpenCable, began working on the next-generation set top in the fall of 1997.
		Later, the FCC acknowledged OpenCable as the most efficient vehicle by which to accomplish its regulatory objectives.
		OpenCable took on the technology mission of achieving interoperable, specification-based advanced digital video functionality allowing retail sale of set tops developed by multiple manufacturers.
	www.eeproductcenter.com /showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=91107 (640 words)

	TiVo Community - Great Engadget Article on CableCARD / OpenCable and TiVo
		During this process, they must convince CableLabs that their security story is tight and that they have satisfied the many other requirements.
		Recently, a July 2006 deadline that would have banned cable companies from producing any new “integrated” (i.e., not OpenCable) set-top boxes was pushed back by at least another year.
		Some know what they are doing some CSRs do not know what they are doing or do not care about their job.
	www.tivocommunity.com /tivo-vb/printthread.php?t=235230 (2337 words)

	Digital Keystone and SCM Microsystems Launch Testing Platform for CableLabs(R) OpenCable(TM) Specification
		The OpenCable specifications were developed to serve two purposes: portability and interoperability.
		Compliance with the OpenCable specifications ensures that the various reception components, including set-top boxes, receivers embedded in digital television sets and removable security modules, known as PODs (Point of Deployment), will work with any conditional access encryption software, as well as with each other.
		SCM developed the world's first OpenCable and DVB test tools and has now teamed with Digital Keystone to license and market the second generation test tool, HPNX.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-19-2003/0001949153&EDATE= (994 words)

	Net4TV Voice: Microsoft Woos Cable With "Unbundled" WebTV and OpenCable Support
		The two companies said that they also intend to collaborate on the design of a next-generation settop box that would run Windows CE and be based on WebTV.
		Microsoft also said that future settop WebTV designs would be compliant with OpenCable, a cable industry initiative that has the goal of creating a set of common, compatible, multi-vendor standards for cable boxes.
		We just weren't about to do anything that would give them control of our customers, no matter how sexy their solution was or how much money they dangled.
	www.net4tv.com /voice/story.cfm?id=1&StoryID=359 (743 words)

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