2002
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Voice
December 2002: First residential VoIP devices certified. Specifically, E-MTAs (Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adaptor) from Arris and Toshiba were certified, on the conclusion of certification wave #24.
Video
January 2002: The first three manufacturers sign the PHILA (Pod-Host Interface Licensing Agreement), which puts them on a fast-track to develop, test and deploy OpenCable gear.
February 2002: First CableLabs Developers' Conference for OCAP attracts 90 companies and 165 attendees. Presentations span developer toolkits, content authoring tools, applications management, Java trends, and support programs. Demonstrations focus on "application portability," or, the ability to write and sell at retail an application that runs on multiple cable systems.
February 2002: Video on demand specification released to stabilize metadata activities across vendors and content suppliers. Metadata, or data that describes other data, is used to identify titles, actors, producers, run dates, expiration dates, and other business-facing VOD needs.
May 2002: Patent pool established for OCAP.
August 2002: Cable operators issue RFP to solicit industry implementations of the OCAP middleware and to hasten the ability of cable operators to launch new OCAP-based services. CableLabs facilitates the RFP. Fourteen companies respond, among them: ADB, Alticast, Canal+, Liberate, Microsoft, OpenTV, Panasonic, Phillips, and Pioneer.
August 2002: OpenCable specifications extended to support additional profiles of HDTV receivers. The specifications describe requirements for retail products that can run OCAP and the DOCSIS Set-top Gateway (DSG) signaling mechanism.
October 2002: Panasonic becomes the first major TV manufacturer to sign up to make cable-ready devices. The PHILA license was later changed to "CHILA" (C=Cable), positioned Panasonic as an innovating risk-taker - the first among its peers to take a solidly pro-cable technology stance.
October 2002: Digital advertising insertion techniques enter fourth phase of development.
December 2002: CableLabs provides critical technical support and leadership to the successful conclusion of the historic "Plug and Play" agreement with the consumer electronics industry that will define the future FCC rules for unidirectional digital cable ready products (UDCPs).
Data
December 2002: CableLabs awards first DOCSIS 2.0 certification to modems from Motorola, Scientific-Atlanta, Terayon, Texas Instruments and Xrosstech. It awards qualified status to a CMTS from Terayon.
December 2002: DOCSIS 2.0 approved as an international standard (J.122) by the ITU.
December 2002: First home networking equipment certified: Residential gateways made by Linksys and NETGEAR.
2002: Go2Broadband(SM) launched Cable Mover Hotline Platform.
December 2002: First residential VoIP devices certified. Specifically, E-MTAs (Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adaptor) from Arris and Toshiba were certified, on the conclusion of certification wave #24.
Video
January 2002: The first three manufacturers sign the PHILA (Pod-Host Interface Licensing Agreement), which puts them on a fast-track to develop, test and deploy OpenCable gear.
February 2002: First CableLabs Developers' Conference for OCAP attracts 90 companies and 165 attendees. Presentations span developer toolkits, content authoring tools, applications management, Java trends, and support programs. Demonstrations focus on "application portability," or, the ability to write and sell at retail an application that runs on multiple cable systems.
February 2002: Video on demand specification released to stabilize metadata activities across vendors and content suppliers. Metadata, or data that describes other data, is used to identify titles, actors, producers, run dates, expiration dates, and other business-facing VOD needs.
May 2002: Patent pool established for OCAP.
August 2002: Cable operators issue RFP to solicit industry implementations of the OCAP middleware and to hasten the ability of cable operators to launch new OCAP-based services. CableLabs facilitates the RFP. Fourteen companies respond, among them: ADB, Alticast, Canal+, Liberate, Microsoft, OpenTV, Panasonic, Phillips, and Pioneer.
August 2002: OpenCable specifications extended to support additional profiles of HDTV receivers. The specifications describe requirements for retail products that can run OCAP and the DOCSIS Set-top Gateway (DSG) signaling mechanism.
October 2002: Panasonic becomes the first major TV manufacturer to sign up to make cable-ready devices. The PHILA license was later changed to "CHILA" (C=Cable), positioned Panasonic as an innovating risk-taker - the first among its peers to take a solidly pro-cable technology stance.
October 2002: Digital advertising insertion techniques enter fourth phase of development.
December 2002: CableLabs provides critical technical support and leadership to the successful conclusion of the historic "Plug and Play" agreement with the consumer electronics industry that will define the future FCC rules for unidirectional digital cable ready products (UDCPs).
Data
December 2002: CableLabs awards first DOCSIS 2.0 certification to modems from Motorola, Scientific-Atlanta, Terayon, Texas Instruments and Xrosstech. It awards qualified status to a CMTS from Terayon.
December 2002: DOCSIS 2.0 approved as an international standard (J.122) by the ITU.
December 2002: First home networking equipment certified: Residential gateways made by Linksys and NETGEAR.
2002: Go2Broadband(SM) launched Cable Mover Hotline Platform.