CableLabs Awards Qualified Status To Scientific-Atlanta Security Module.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2003 CableLabs(R) announced today that the OpenCable(TM) Certification Board has awarded qualified status to a point-of-deployment (POD) removable security module from Scientific-Atlanta (SA). "This is a great accomplishment for the companies involved, but also for the cable industry in its move toward retail availability of digital devices," said CableLabs President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Dr. Richard R. Green. The POD modules are a critical element in enabling manufacturers and retailers to engage in retail sale of interoperable navigation devices, such as set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. and integrated digital television An Integrated Digital Television ("IDTV" or "iDTV") set is a television set with a built in digital tuner, be it for DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C, ATSC or ISDB. Most of them also allow reception of analogue signals (PAL, SÉCAM or NTSC). sets. PODs enable a device to decode (1) To convert coded data back into its original form. Contrast with encode. (2) Same as decrypt. See cryptography. (cryptography) decode - To apply decryption. encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science , or scrambled, content that crosses the POD-host interface. A host may be a set-top box, an integrated digital television receiver or any other digital device. This POD-Host architecture is a key component of the recently announced MSO-Cable "Plug-and-Play" Agreement. "Timely testing and qualification of Scientific-Atlanta's product demonstrates the cable industry's ongoing commitment to that historic industry agreement," said Don Dulchinos, CableLabs Vice President of Advanced Platforms and Services and manager of the OpenCable testing program. The Telecommunications Act There are several laws named the Telecommunications Act
The cable industry, through OpenCable, began working on the next-generation set top in the fall of 1997. Later, the FCC acknowledged OpenCable as the most efficient vehicle by which to accomplish its regulatory objectives. OpenCable took on the technology mission of achieving interoperable, specification-based advanced digital video functionality allowing retail sale of set tops developed by multiple manufacturers. FCC rules directed cable operators to have available separable sep·a·ra·ble adj. Possible to separate: separable sheets of paper. sep removable security modules (i.e., PODs) by July 1, 2000. The cable industry met that deadline. Founded in 1988 by members of the cable television industry, Cable Television Laboratories is a non-profit research and development consortium that is dedicated to pursuing new cable telecommunications technologies and to helping its cable operator members integrate those advancements into their business objectives. Cable operators from around the world are members. CableLabs(R) maintains web sites at www.cablelabs.com; www.packetcable.com; www.cablemodem.com; www.cablenet.org; www.opencable.com and www.cablelabs.com/projects/go2/. |
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