Interactive Video and Voice over
Internet Highlight CableNET® 2005
at The 2005 National Show

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CableLabs® announced recently that 45 broadband demonstrations will comprise the 13th annual CableNET® exhibit, a highlight of The 2005 National Show, the annual convention and international exhibition of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), April 3–5 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Co-sponsored by CableLabs and NCTA, CableNET is a technology showcase that offers a hands-on experience with many of the most exciting technologies that cable operators soon may provide to their customers. The content, services, and applications demonstrated will showcase how the cable industry is utilizing its broadband platform to explore new leading-edge consumer services.

Designed as an educational forum, CableNET enables attendees to see and discuss leading-edge technologies and applications. Among this year’s highlights are broadband wireless, OpenCableTM Applications Platform (OCAPTM)-based exhibits, demonstrations of interactive services and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP). Among the demonstrating companies at this year’s CableNET are the American Film Institute and its Digital Content Lab development partners; and the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) will display advanced multimedia services.

The 10,000-square-foot CableNET® exhibit will feature technology demonstrations by companies from a wide variety of industries supporting the cable industry, including services and applications that cable companies will deliver to their customers via cable’s hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) telecommunications networks. Designed as an educational forum, CableNET enables attendees to see and discuss leading edge technologies and applications. Among this year’s highlights are 200 megabit-per-second Internet access via the cable industry’s Data over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS®) platform; OpenCableTM Applications Platform (OCAPTM)-based exhibits, demonstrations of interactive services and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP).

Among the demonstrating companies at this year’s CableNET are the American Film Institute and its Digital Content Lab development partners. The Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MoCA) will display advanced multimedia services.

“CableNET continues to provide a unique environment in which to understand the industry’s technology—and service—future,” said Dr. Richard R. Green, CableLabs President and CEO. “This year’s version will be the most advanced yet in terms of displaying cutting-edge, forward technologies which serve to underscore cable’s competitive lead in the broadband industry.“

“CableNET’s technology showcase provides an enlightening glimpse into the bright future of cable’s consumer technology,“ said Robert Sachs, President & CEO, NCTA. “Its presence at The National Show provides great value to all Show attendees.”

The list of demonstrations and brief descriptions follows:

• Advanced Digital Broadcast introduces the i-can 3200C, a digital DOCSIS®-based set-top box with OpenCableTM Applications Platform (OCAPTM)-based middleware for both lab and field trials of all digital video cable networks.
• The AFI Digital Content Lab (AFI DCL) incubates new forms of content on digital platforms from idea to audience, with a focus on programming that is deployable now or in the near future. Joined by supporting companies NDS Americas and Ensequence, the AFI Digital Content Lab showcases a range of innovative digital, interactive TV programming.
• ATI Technologies Inc. is exhibiting a full-system solution based on OpenCableTM specifications, which incorporates a single-chip solution using the XILLEONTM 210VC. The solution is designed to minimize overall system cost and to maximize performance.
• Aurora Networks is demonstrating wireless access for hotspot and point-to-point applications to highlight the potential of leveraging deployed hybrid-fiber/coax (HFC) backhaul and power infrastructure for residential and business applications using 802.11 technologies.
• Auspice’s Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) Service Management software provides comprehensive real-time monitoring of the PacketCableTM VoIP infrastructure for proactive health management of root cause analysis of Quality-of-Service (QoS) degradations, call-feature problems and outages.
• BitRouter’s TVrefpak for digital cable-ready and terrestrial TV targets silicon reference boards with a graphical user interface (GUI) and support for CableCARDTM, Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) and digital closed captioning.
• Camiant, a provider of PacketCableTM Multimedia (PCMM) infrastructure, is demonstrating multimedia applications including Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based communications and streaming video using its Quality-of-Service Bus Network (QBUS) Multimedia Service Controller.
• Cauldron Solutions is demonstrating its software engine for scheduling and distributing on-demand digital media and its application engines to manage broadband and cable customer entitlements, business rights, and transactions.
• Clique Communications is showcasing its Clique Video Messenger software client on two personal computers providing peer-to-peer, two-way live video chat service over the Internet via cable modem access.
• Coaxsys is exhibiting Internet Protocol television (IPTV) delivery over in-home television coaxial cabling with multiple, simultaneous high-definition (HD)/standard-definition (SD) television channels.
• Deloitte Consulting is showcasing the systems and processes required to create a branded voice and data wireless service using the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) approach.
• Dotcast’s demonstration injects data at 3.75 Megabits per second (Mbps) into an analog television signal without impairing the host picture or sound.
• Ellacoya Networks is showcasing multimedia service and peer-to-peer (P2P) control through the off-line placement of a deep-packet inspection (DPI) switch for application detection and PacketCableTM Multimedia (PCMM)-based service control.
• Entropic’s production chipset, field tested by MoCATM, enables home networking of digital entertainment, including multiple and simultaneous high-definition television (HDTV) and digital video recorder (DVR) video streams, gaming, audio, voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP), and data, over the existing in-home coax and splitter environment.
• ExtendMedia is showcasing how Content Service Management technology enables the marketing, support, and delivery of highly personalized consumer content services across multiple lines of business.
• Mahi’s Vx7 ROADM and Network Planning Tool simplify optical network design and planning, from simulation and verification of optical layer performance, to services engineering.
• Microsoft presents Microsoft TV Foundation Edition 1.7. This solution is being deployed today and features a dual-tuner digital video recorder (DVR), advanced interactive program guide, news and weather interactive channels, and more.
• Motorola Connected Home Solutions is exhibiting Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony based on PacketCableTM Multimedia (PCMM) specifications to provide Quality-of-Service (QoS) to ensure high-quality voice calls. The demonstration includes DOCSIS® 2.0 cable modems and wireless gateways, a PCMM-based cable modem termination system (CMTS), a policy server, and a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server.
• Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MOCA) is showcasing technology that simultaneously provides multiple streams of high-definition and standard-definition video, broadband data, and gaming over existing home coaxial cable. No cable or splitter changes are required.
• Navic Networks is demonstrating interactive television (iTV) and addressable advertising applications that leverage its HyperGate® data transport technology and iTV platform.
• NDS is showing its MediaHighway Advanced OpenCableTM Applications PlatformTM (OCAPTM)-based middleware (with personal video recorder support) on top of a Quanta Network Systems (QNS) platform, together with the OCAP MediaHighway Development Kit (MHDK) and applications developed in collaboration with third parties.
• NETGEAR® is exhibiting the Wireless Cable Voice Gateway, CVG824G, which integrates a DOCSIS® 2.0-based cable modem, PacketCableTM-based voice adapter with battery backup, a router based on CableHome® specifications, an Ethernet switch, and an 802.11g access point.
• Nionex GmbH is demonstrating pontegra, the HTML-based OpenCableTM Applications Platform (OCAPTM)-based browser for the development of interactive TV services by means of standard Internet-based workflow components.
• Nortel Networks is showcasing a wireless broadband experience enabling cable operators to deliver services in hotspots, public transit, and large entertainment venues.
• Nuera’s BTX media gateway, built in accordance with the PacketCableTM security architecture, provides secure off-net voice calls from a multimedia terminal adapter to the public switched telephone network.
• Osmosys is exhibiting a middleware based on OCAPTM specification as well as a full portfolio of OCAPTM-based products intended for cable operators, application developers, and set-top box vendors.
• Primal Solutions, Inc., offers solutions that capture, rate, and correlate service data (including Voice-over-Internet Protocol and high-speed data usage) for consumption-based billing, Web presentment, and financial management.
• RealNetworks’ PCTV is the culmination of its codecs, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Quality-of-Service (QoS) management and multicasting technologies, resulting in a multichannel television experience delivered to the personal computer over broadband networks.
• Samsung Electronics is showing its Interactive Digital Cable Ready ("iDCR") high-definition television (HDTV) based on CableLabs® OpenCableTM Application Platform (OCAPTM) software and OpenCable Host hardware specifications.
• Sandvine’s network equipment helps service providers understand subscriber behavior, recognize and address network threats, classify applications, guarantee service levels, and create profitable broadband service tiers.
• Siemens’ Visual Caller ID lets the cable operator route caller number and name information to the television screen where it appears approximately one second prior to the first ring.
• Softel-USA is showing the MediaSphere TX carousel outputting OpenCableTM Applications Platform (OCAPTM)-based applications, and the MediaSphere Lab for prototyping and testing OCAP applications, set-top boxes, etc.
• Synacor’s portal-technology platform, PortelusTM, and extensive catalog of subscription services enable Internet service providers (ISPs) to bundle, provision, support, and bill for multiple services as part of a single-rate code.
• Telchemy Incorporated is showcasing non-intrusive and active Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) service quality monitoring technology to measure service quality and provide real-time problem diagnosis for PacketCableTM-based systems.
• Telesciences’ record keeping server (RKS)/mediation system collects event messages or call detail records from PacketCableTM Multimedia (PCMM)-based components. An optional new Customer Self-Service (CSS) Web portal is integrated with the RKS.
• Thales Broadcast & Multimedia will demonstrate its DSM-CC carousel server updating a cable set-top box software. The same server will simultaneously send OpenCable™ Applications Platform (OCAP™)-based interactive applications to the set-top box.
• UniSoft and Strategy and Technology are exhibiting TSBroadcaster, an OpenCableTM Applications Platform (OCAPTM)-based encoding/play-out server for cable headends, lab, testing and application development. It supports multiple Digital Storage Media-Command and Control (DSM-CC) object carousels, bound/unbound application support, and authenticated OCAP applications.
• Vidiom Systems is demonstrating OpenCableTM Applications Platform (OCAPTM)-based applications, middleware, and services that support cable operator migration from their existing, deployed systems to the OpenCable platform.
• Zoran’s Generation9®-Elite ATSC/NTSC and Uni-Directional OpenCableTM-based reference design is a complete hardware and software solution for building Digital Cable-Ready high-definition television (HDTV) products.

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