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Draft A document in specification format considered largely complete, but lacking review by Members and vendors. Drafts are susceptible to substantial change during the review process. Issued A stable document, which has undergone rigorous member and vendor review and is suitable for product design and development, cross-vendor interoperability, and for certification testing. Closed A static document, reviewed, tested, validated, and closed to further engineering change requests to the specification through CableLabs. 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.....................................................................................................................................3 1.5 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS...................................................................................................................4 2 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................................7 2.1 NORMATIVE REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................................7 2.2 INFORMATIVE REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................10 2.3 REFERENCE ACQUISITION.............................................................................................................................10 3 OVERVIEW OF CORE SERVICES AND FUNCTIONALITIES...............................................................12 3.1 OPENCABLE HOST DEVICE 2.1 COMPONENTS...............................................................................................12 3.1.1 Core Services (Informative).................................................................................................................13 3.1.2 Core Functions and Features (Informative)........................................................................................13 3.2 GENERAL COMPLIANCE (NORMATIVE).........................................................................................................14 4 SECURITY ........................................................................................................................................................15 4.1 CONDITIONAL ACCESS .................................................................................................................................15 4.2 PARTITIONING OF MEMORY..........................................................................................................................15 4.3 CERTIFICATE STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT.................................................................................................15 4.4 ANALOG PROGRAM COPY PROTECTION........................................................................................................15 4.5 DIGITAL PROGRAM COPY PROTECTION ........................................................................................................15 4.6 HD COPY CONTROL .....................................................................................................................................16 5 BI-DIRECTIONAL PHYSICAL LAYER CHARACTERISTICS...............................................................18 5.1 RF INTERFACE..............................................................................................................................................18 5.1.1 Maximum Individual Carrier Amplitude .............................................................................................18 5.2 COMMUNICATION CHANNELS.......................................................................................................................18 5.2.1 Forward Application Transport (FAT) Channel .................................................................................18 5.2.2 NTSC Analog Channels .......................................................................................................................19 5.2.3 Out-Of-Band Signaling........................................................................................................................19 5.3 PHYSICAL LAYER SPECIFICATIONS...............................................................................................................20 5.3.1 In-Band Downstream Channel, FDC Characteristics and RF Performance ......................................20 5.3.2 Upstream Transmission Characteristics .............................................................................................24 6 CABLECARD INTERFACE ...........................................................................................................................26 6.1 OPENCABLE HOST DEVICE 2.1 FUNCTIONALITY WITHOUT A CABLECARD DEVICE....................................27 6.2 MAN MACHINE INTERFACE (MMI) SUPPORT ...............................................................................................28 6.3 SOFTWARE....................................................................................................................................................28 6.3.1 Middleware..........................................................................................................................................28 6.3.2 Software Download .............................................................................................................................28 6.3.3 Specific Application Support Resource................................................................................................28 6.4 EXTENDED CHANNEL SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................29 7 MULTI-MEDIA INTERFACES......................................................................................................................30 7.1 OPENCABLE HOST DEVICE 2 OUTPUTS ........................................................................................................30 7.2 OPENCABLE HOST INPUT DEVICES...............................................................................................................31 7.3 RF OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS (CHANNEL ¾ RF OUTPUT) ..............................................................................32 7.4 OPENCABLE HOST FRONT PANEL.................................................................................................................33 7/20/07 CableLabs® iii OC-SP-HOST2.1-CFR-I01-070720 OpenCableTM Specifications 8 VIDEO................................................................................................................................................................34 8.1 ANALOG VIDEO............................................................................................................................................34