–Has Formed OCAP Partnership with Alticast
UK set-top box manufacturer, Pace Micro Technology, says that it has developed a DVR that is based on CableLabs’ OCAP DVR Specification (0C-SP-OCAP-I02), and that it will demo the box at the upcoming SCTE Cable-Tec Expo (takes place in Denver, June 21st-23rd). The company says that it will use the OCAP DVR specification in all its current and future OCAP DVR’s, starting with its flagship, dual-tuner Tahoe TDC775 HD-DVR. To further its OCAP efforts, Pace Micro has partnered with South Korean OCAP specialist, Alticast, the first company to deploy OCAP commercially. As part of the partnership, Pace has integrated Alticast’s OCAP middleware solution, AltiCaptor OCAP 1.0, into its cable set-top box line. Pace has also participated in a number of CableLabs’ multi-vendor interoperability testing events over the past few months, including one this month, during which it says it brought its products to test with DVR-enabled EPG’s, DOCSIS 2.0 Advanced DSG signalling, and various other OCAP applications that are under development. "Pace and Alticast have tracked the CableLabs specifications to a ‘T’ by implementing all the specifications and engineering change notices to date, which marks a major milestone," Pace Americas’ VP of technology, Chris Dinallo, said in a prepared statement. "In addition, we uniquely designed our OCAP platform to function on different headend configurations, and in a manner that saves MSO’s capital expense, time, and risk. We are on track to have a leading high-definition DVR OCAP-based platform ready for operators to make the transition to OCAP."
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