OCAP Specifications
OCAP Developers Information
OCAP IPR Declarant Statement
The OpenCable Applications Platform specification is a middleware software layer specification. The OCAP specification is intended to enable the developers of interactive television services and applications to design such products so that they will run successfully on any cable television system in North America, independent of set-top or television receiver hardware or operating system software choices.
The OCAP specification enables manufacturers and retail distributors of set-tops, television receivers or other devices to build and to sell attractive and capable devices to consumers that will support all services delivered by cable operators to devices currently available to consumers via lease from cable operators.
The issued OCAP 1.0 specification was released in December 2001 and was followed by OCAP 2.0 in April 2002. Both are available under OpenCable Specifications.