Is MoCA ready for prime time?
MoCA claims it’s ready for prime time and that prime time is now. MoCA is the acronym for the Multimedia over Coax Alliance and also designates the technology advocated by the group. At its first Technology Conference and Open House in Austin, TX, the alliance assembled an impressive cast of characters to state the case for home networks as the next opportunity for communications service providers, especially cable operators. Comcast CTO Tony Werner delivered the conference keynote presentation, which focused around a relatively new consumer penchant for creating and accessing large volumes of recorded data. “Sixty percent of all viewing is non-real time, and 85 percent of stored data is created by individuals, not institutions,” he said. He continued by pointing out that the number of digital devices that can be networked in each home is projected to reach 30 by 2010. According to Werner, the echo-boomers are a digital generation, which wants to participate in networked applications.
