OpenCable™
The OpenCable™ initiative, managed by CableLabs, began in 1997 with the goal of helping the cable industry deploy interactive services and create competition in the host device marketplace. The consumer-facing brand name for OpenCable is carried under the <tru2way> logo.

Like other CableLabs projects, including DOCSIS and PacketCable™, OpenCable provides a set of specifications interfacing to divergent cable operator systems. OpenCable specifications help achieve the goal of interactive service delivery by meeting three key objectives:
  1. Defining the next-generation digital consumer device.
  2. Encouraging supplier competition.
  3. Creating a retail hardware and software platform.
The OpenCable specifications include both hardware and software specifications. The hardware specifications describe a baseline host device configuration for accessing interactive services and are interoperable with cable systems throughout the U.S., thus creating a retail solution for consumer electronics products for cable. The software specifications, coupled with the hardware specifications, solve the problem of proprietary operating system software, thereby creating a common platform for interactive television applications and services.
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