SCTE Standard on CableLabs® OCAP™ Specification Achieves ANSI Approval

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The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) recently announced that SCTE 90-1 2004 has achieved American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approval. SCTE 90-1 was based on CableLabs’ submission of the OpenCable™ Application Platform (OCAP™) specification.

OCAP defines a set of common application interfaces, data formats, and protocols for interactive cable devices. As such, OCAP allows cable operators, content providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers to write applications one time that will run on all OCAP-compliant devices.

OCAP is a key element of two-way interactive cable devices and is a requirement for OpenCable™ devices. The major cable operators have announced that they will deploy OCAP, and support OCAP applications, in their networks.

“ANSI’s approval of OCAP provides an additional indication to the cable, programming, and manufacturing industries that OCAP is the accepted, stable, standard for interactive cable devices,” said Dr. Richard Green, president and CEO of CableLabs. “This is another significant validation of OCAP, and a great achievement for CableLabs.”

About SCTE
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers is a non-profit professional organization committed to advancing the careers of cable telecommunications professionals and serving the industry through excellence in professional development, information and standards. SCTE currently has approximately 14,000 members from the U.S. and 70 countries worldwide and offers a variety of programs and services for the industry’s educational benefit. SCTE has more than 70 chapters and meeting groups and has technically certified more than 3,000 employees of the cable telecommunications industry. Visit SCTE online at www.scte.org.

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