TelcoTV: MoCA announces certifications, new member TI

DALLAS--The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) announced at the TelcoTV conference and expo here that it recently certified its seventeenth product interface. The agency also said that Texas Instruments had become its latest member.

The MoCA ecosystem incorporates DVR set-top boxes, client set top boxes, Ethernet to coax bridges, optical network terminals (ONT), and broadband home routers. Hitachi, Motorola, and Actiontec participated in this certification wave and certified DVR Set Top Boxes, gigabit ONTs and routers respectively.

This certification wave was an official MoCA event where vendors and MoCA members submitted products with MoCA interfaces to verify interoperability, functionality and performance based on a suite of certification tests chosen by the MoCA Certification Board according to a statement from MoCA. Representatives of the Certification Board monitored all testing. Successful products were awarded MoCA certification, which allowed a vendor to use the MoCA logo and claim compliance to the MoCA MAC/PHY v1.0 ratified standard. In Q1 of 2007, companies will be able to run through the certification tests at MoCA qualified 3rd party labs, with the MoCA Certification Board then reviewing results and awarding certification.