SCTE Seeks Middleware Standard for Set-Tops.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)
Multichannel News, June, 2000 by ILER, DAVID
The cable industry's quest to establish a middle-ware standard for advanced digital set-top boxes is now under the purview of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers. Earlier this spring, the SCTE created the Common Applications Platform subcommittee, chaired by Jean-Pol Zundel, chief software architect for Comcast Corp.'s cable unit.
The effort, Zundel said, is an extension of Cable Television Laboratories Inc.'s OpenCable initiative -- particularly the OpenCable software request for proposal that was issued last year. The competitive middleware-selection process is designed to produce a single application-programming interface, which is composed of a common set of instructions which applications and/or services on the OpenCable...
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