At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver last week, Motorola revealed that cable MSO, Cox Communications, plans to begin evaluation of its OCAP middleware solution (note: OCAP, which was developed by US cable-industry research-and-development organization, CableLabs, and which is closely related to the European MHP standard, is designed to allow development of interactive TV applications that will run on any cable system in North America, regardless of set-top box or operating system software choices). Motorola says that its middleware solution uses the standard OCAP 1.0 and OCAP-DVR specifications to allow exploitation of the home networking capabilities of its "Follow Me TV" platform--thus allowing developers to incorporate features, such as multi-room DVR and the ability to link set-top boxes and mobile devices, into their own custom OCAP applications. "Motorola is committed to bringing emerging, open standards like OCAP throughout our entire hardware portfolio," Nick Chakalos, Motorola's senior director of software product management for connected home solutions, said in a prepared statement. "We are proud to deliver our solution to Cox for evaluation as part of as their OCAP strategy."
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