CableLabs and NCTA executives met with FCC Media Bureau represent...
CableLabs and NCTA executives met with FCC Media Bureau representatives Nov. 4 to rebut Verizon’s call for an “open standards-setting body” on 2-way plug & play specifications with a role for its FiOS mobile TV technology (CD Oct 25…
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p8), it was disclosed in an ex parte filing at the Commission. Contrary to Verizon’s plea that the FCC avoid locking into “cable-centric” standards for 2-way plug & play support, the cable industry’s use of DOCSIS “is an essential part of interactive cable communication and is already integrated in silicon for set-tops and DTV chips,” CableLabs and NCTA said. DOCSIS has made inexpensive cable modems possible, spurred direct cable competition with DSL, and become a worldwide ITU standard, cable told the Commission. Although Verizon takes issue with cable-centric standards, it has used “cable-initiated” specifications for many applications, CableLabs and NCTA said. Requiring multi-industry standards-setting “before innovation or market advances would significantly delay the development of competitive offerings to consumers and would open up the specification development process to political gaming -- such as efforts to hobble DOCSIS and competing home networks,” they said.