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The CoxCable Application Platform, or OCAP, is an operating system layer designed for consumer electronics that connect to a cable television system, the cable company controls what OCAP programs run on the consumer's machine. Designed by CoxCable for the cable networks all OCAP programs are intended forcoxcable services such as Cable companies have required OCAP as part of the Cablecard 2.0 specification, a proposal that is controversial and has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission. Cable companies have stated that signal communications by Coxcable Communications OCAP is intended to cable channels features provided service for consumer has Cox Cable service. ..

Technical overview

OCAP is the Java based software/middleware portion of the OpenCable initiative. OCAP is based on the Globally Executable MHP (GEM)-standard, and was defined by CableLabs. Because OCAP is based on GEM, it has a lot in common with the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)-standard defined by the DVB project.

At present two versions of the OCAP standard exist:

  • OCAP v1.0
  • OCAP v2.0

See also

References

  • "OpenCable / OCAP Website". CableLabs. Archived from the original on 2006-03-26. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
  • "The OCAP Primer". Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM). Archived from the original on 2006-04-20. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
  • "An Introduction to OCAP". Interactive TV Web. Archived from the original on 2009-02-04. Retrieved 2009-01-07.
  • Sun Microsystems' Java TV
  • MHP official standards for interactive television and related interactive home entertainment.
  • MHP tutorials
  • MHP Knowledge Database
  • The OCAP/EBIF Developer Network
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