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CableCARD: Countdown to 'Seven-Oh-Seven'

Jeff Baumgartner writes on Cable Digital News:

T-minus five weeks and counting.

U.S. cable operators, big and small, are hustling to comply with a quickly approaching mandate from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that will ban MSOs from buying and deploying set-tops with integrated security. That ban comes into effect July 1, 2007.

When the ban becomes active, cable operators will be prohibited from purchasing or deploying any new set-tops with the security embedded in the device.

After June 30, 2007, any newly purchased and deployed digital set-top purchases must have separable security. More often than not, this separation will occur at the set-top via a special interface that houses the CableCARD, a removable module that contains the conditional access keys necessary to authorize digital cable services.

posted by Fergie @ 5/25/2007 03:03:00 PM