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join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL | reply to cornelius785
Re: CableCard I can understand why you might think that, but unfortunately it really isn't, most of those "solutions" have already been proposed by different interest groups already.
This is an extreme analogy, but it is true, so here we go...
OCAP (tru2way) is similar to an Internet service provider stating you cannot connect your computer to the Internet using your IEEE 802.3 Ethernet connection unless you are running the (fill-in your favorite OS here, such as Microsoft Windows) operating system. It actually goes a bit farther as it mandates that essentially you also cannot control your installation of the operating system, the service provider will do that for you, as they see fit.
Why did I mention IEEE 802.3? It has a direct comparison to DocSIS which can and probably already is in most cases used to provide the physical layer for two-way data communication with subscriber and operator devices. All they had to do was sit down and agree to a common protocol (API), update some firmware and use the existing cable cards and we would have been done with this years ago. |
