[opendtv] Microsoft Submits Initial Specifications to Enhance OCAP WithMicrosoft .NET Technology and Development Tools
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:36:52 -0400
Microsoft Submits Initial Specifications to Enhance OCAP With
Microsoft .NET Technology and Development Tools
- May 3, 2004 08:07 AM (PR Newswire)
Microsoft TV Division Adds Standards Experts to Continue to Drive Innovation
in Cable Industry
NEW ORLEANS, May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at the National Cable &
Telecommunications Association's National Show, Microsoft Corp.
(Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that it has submitted its initial draft of common
language infrastructure (CLI) specifications for the OpenCable Application
Platform (OCAP), the cable industry's software standard for deploying
interactive services to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (CableLabs). The
announcement demonstrates Microsoft's growing commitment to the development
and adoption of advanced digital services by encouraging the market entry of
new suppliers.
OCAP is part of the OpenCable initiative, which is managed by CableLabs,
the cable television industry's nonprofit research and development consortium.
To date, CableLabs has issued OCAP versions 1.0 and 2.0. Microsoft and
CableLabs have agreed to work together to explore the potential of adding
Microsoft(R) .NET CLI to OCAP. The proposed addition of .NET would expand the
common runtime platform among a variety of computing devices including set-top
boxes and PCs, making home entertainment networking simpler and more
compelling to the consumer and creating expanded opportunities for cable
operators.
Upon reviewing the initial draft of OCAP-CLI, CableLabs will seek comments
from a working group of industry experts, which will make recommendations to
be incorporated in Microsoft's draft. The incorporation of OCAP-CLI by
CableLabs could offer cable operators a choice of development environments,
allowing them to take advantage of Microsoft's ongoing investment and
innovation of .NET. At the same time, such an extended OCAP specification
would be fully backward-compatible, allowing cable operators to leverage and
develop their OCAP 1.0 investment in the future. CableLabs is in the process
of creating a working group of industry veterans to evaluate and refine the
initial OCAP-CLI specifications. Integration of OCAP-CLI into the OCAP
specifications will be considered later in the year.
As part of the effort to continue to drive the development of industry
standards, the Microsoft TV division has added James Van Loo as OCAP program
manager and John Mick as group program manager for standards. Van Loo
previously worked at Sun Microsystems Inc., where he was instrumental in
developing TV standards in the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) and the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), including Multimedia Home
Platform (MHP), OCAP and Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP).
Before joining Microsoft TV, Mick was the director of the Software Technology
Group at Integrated Device Technology Inc., where he served as the software
architect for network packet processing silicon solutions, and managed teams
developing simulation models and product hardware and software for OC-192
speed packet processing systems.
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