2006
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CableLabs Interop Event. -
CableNET '06 Booth Activity. -
EuroCableNET 2006.
Voice
January 2006: PacketCable 1.5 specifications accepted by the ITU as an international standard.
April 2006: The specifications for PacketCable 2.0, enabling cross-platform applications and services, are issued. The first application for the PacketCable 2.0 platform, Residential SIP Telephony (RST), is also released.
2006: "VoIP is our most valuable player of the year this year." - Tony Werner, then-CTO of Liberty Global.
Video
January 2006: CEOs of the top cable operating companies hold a news conference at CES in Las Vegas to announce their respective plans for deploying OCAP over the coming years. 2006 stat: Thirty percent of digital cable customers within Time Warner Cable's Brooklyn/Queens, N.Y. system participate with an ETV-enabled test of "Last Comic Standing." By contrast, NBC's "two screen" (TV + laptop/PC) interactive efforts in the same timeframe generated 2-5% participation.
March 2006: Under the FCC Plug & Play Rules, CableLabs announced today that it has approved a recording technology developed by EnCentrus Systems, Inc. that enables consumers to enjoy home recordings of certain high-value cable programming for use in DCR products which are compatible with the cable industry's CableCARD removable security modules. The CPDO technology is the first secure hard drive recording solution approved by CableLabs for use inside and outside such products.
April 2006: Through successful testing at CableLabs, TiVo achieves verification status of their first Digital Cable Ready (DCR) product. For TiVo, this means it can build and deploy a DVR that is Digital Cable Ready and contains a CableCARD slot.
April 2006: ADB and Panasonic sign licenses to include downloadable security in its gear.
April 2006: Scientific-Atlanta's multi-stream CableCARD is the first of a new generation of removable security devices qualified by CableLabs; multi-stream cards enable a set-top or digital device to descramble more than one video stream at a time enabling such features as "watch & record" with a single module.
April 2006: VOD "triggering" application demonstrated as part of the scope of the ETV (Enhanced TV) specification. It means a person watching linear television could be presented with a clickable offer on the screen. When clicked, the viewer "telescopes" into a VOD server, to see the offer. ABC's Enhanced TV group becomes a key contributor to the work.
April 2006: Real Networks is approved to supply its digital rights management (DRM) product, Helix, for premium content sent through a unidirectional (one way) device, to a PC. It means that cable customers can watch digital and HD programming (specifically including scrambled channels) on their computer.
May 2006: Version 2.0 of the VOD Content MetaData specification is released.
July 2006: Motorola's first multi-stream CableCARD is qualified by CableLabs.
November 2006: CableLabs extends options for makers of Plug & Play unidirectional digital cable products by adding support for multi-stream CableCARDs to the test plan.
November 2006: A groundbreaking interoperability event at CableLabs combines ETV and digital ad insertion, showing that ETV ads can be successfully spliced into ETV video streams.
Data
August 2006: CableLabs issues DOCSIS 3.0 specifications, which enable cable operators to offer significantly higher data rates to their broadband customers. The new specifications describe downstream data rates of 160 Mbps or higher and upstream data rates of 120 Mbps or higher.
December 2006: CableLabs and EuroCableLabs issue request for information (RFI) on DOCSIS 3.0 devices.
2006: Go2Broadband(SM) enabled Phase 1 of Sales Automation.
January 2006: PacketCable 1.5 specifications accepted by the ITU as an international standard.
April 2006: The specifications for PacketCable 2.0, enabling cross-platform applications and services, are issued. The first application for the PacketCable 2.0 platform, Residential SIP Telephony (RST), is also released.
2006: "VoIP is our most valuable player of the year this year." - Tony Werner, then-CTO of Liberty Global.
Video
January 2006: CEOs of the top cable operating companies hold a news conference at CES in Las Vegas to announce their respective plans for deploying OCAP over the coming years. 2006 stat: Thirty percent of digital cable customers within Time Warner Cable's Brooklyn/Queens, N.Y. system participate with an ETV-enabled test of "Last Comic Standing." By contrast, NBC's "two screen" (TV + laptop/PC) interactive efforts in the same timeframe generated 2-5% participation.
March 2006: Under the FCC Plug & Play Rules, CableLabs announced today that it has approved a recording technology developed by EnCentrus Systems, Inc. that enables consumers to enjoy home recordings of certain high-value cable programming for use in DCR products which are compatible with the cable industry's CableCARD removable security modules. The CPDO technology is the first secure hard drive recording solution approved by CableLabs for use inside and outside such products.
April 2006: Through successful testing at CableLabs, TiVo achieves verification status of their first Digital Cable Ready (DCR) product. For TiVo, this means it can build and deploy a DVR that is Digital Cable Ready and contains a CableCARD slot.
April 2006: ADB and Panasonic sign licenses to include downloadable security in its gear.
April 2006: Scientific-Atlanta's multi-stream CableCARD is the first of a new generation of removable security devices qualified by CableLabs; multi-stream cards enable a set-top or digital device to descramble more than one video stream at a time enabling such features as "watch & record" with a single module.
April 2006: VOD "triggering" application demonstrated as part of the scope of the ETV (Enhanced TV) specification. It means a person watching linear television could be presented with a clickable offer on the screen. When clicked, the viewer "telescopes" into a VOD server, to see the offer. ABC's Enhanced TV group becomes a key contributor to the work.
April 2006: Real Networks is approved to supply its digital rights management (DRM) product, Helix, for premium content sent through a unidirectional (one way) device, to a PC. It means that cable customers can watch digital and HD programming (specifically including scrambled channels) on their computer.
May 2006: Version 2.0 of the VOD Content MetaData specification is released.
July 2006: Motorola's first multi-stream CableCARD is qualified by CableLabs.
November 2006: CableLabs extends options for makers of Plug & Play unidirectional digital cable products by adding support for multi-stream CableCARDs to the test plan.
November 2006: A groundbreaking interoperability event at CableLabs combines ETV and digital ad insertion, showing that ETV ads can be successfully spliced into ETV video streams.
Data
August 2006: CableLabs issues DOCSIS 3.0 specifications, which enable cable operators to offer significantly higher data rates to their broadband customers. The new specifications describe downstream data rates of 160 Mbps or higher and upstream data rates of 120 Mbps or higher.
December 2006: CableLabs and EuroCableLabs issue request for information (RFI) on DOCSIS 3.0 devices.
2006: Go2Broadband(SM) enabled Phase 1 of Sales Automation.