Wednesday, June 28, 2006

CableLabs Kills Interim DOCSIS Standard

Via Light Reading.

CableLabs has killed a budding attempt to create an interim DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) tech standard for cable modem equipment, Light Reading has learned.

No details are available yet. But knowledgeable sources confirmed that CableLabs executives decided to short-circuit the effort after fielding heated criticism of the proposed spec from executives of several large MSOs at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' Cable-Tec Expo in Denver last week. A CableLabs spokesman declined comment on the proposed spec earlier today.

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