OEDN

OCAP EBIF Developer Network
Abbreviation	OEDN
Motto	Spectemur agendo
Formation	1 October 2007
Type	Interactive Television, Software development and Community
Legal status	foundation
Purpose/focus	the promotion of OCAP tru2way and EBIF application development for digital cable television
Headquarters	New York, NY
Location	USA
Region served	Global
Main organ	governance board
Affiliations	Time Warner Cable
Website	http://www.oedn.net

Founded in October, 2007 - the OCAP EBIF Developer Network (OEDN.net) is an online developer network for the promotion of Interactive Television application and service development on digital cable television.

Dedicated to the goal of supporting the emerging and long-term needs of software engineers and product teams building OCAP (tru2way) and EBIF applications to run not only on digital cable television, but also converged applications and services spanning mobile and broadband devices.

OEDN.net is a networked Community of Practice with a membership constituency drawn from cable companies, ITV application vendors, content providers, programming networks, advertisers, academic interactive media researchers and independent consultants.

References

Todd Spangler; Kent Gibbons (7 March 2008). "Cablers Seed Interactive TV Community". Multichannel News. http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6539220.html. 

Tracy Swedlow (28 February 2008). "itvt-Monthly-Wrap-on-InteractiveTV Podcast - OEDN interview with Will Kreth" (Podcast). blogtalkradio.com: ITVT.com. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/itvt-tvoftomorrow/2008/02/28/itvt-Monthly-Wrap-on-InteractiveTV-with-an-Exclusive-on-tru2way-OEDNnet. 

External links

• OpenCable Platform Developer Community within the Mobile & Embedded project on Java.net
• "OpenCable / OCAP Website". CableLabs. Archived from the original on 2006-03-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20060326111508/http://www.opencable.com/ocap/ocap.html. Retrieved 2006-06-05. 
• "The OCAP Primer". Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM). Archived from the original on 2006-04-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20060420033934/http://www.ctam.com/ocap/. Retrieved 2006-06-05. 

• "An Introduction to OCAP". Interactive TV Web. 2005-09-14. Archived from the original on 2006-05-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20060517102541/http://www.interactivetvweb.org/tutorial/ocap/index.shtml. Retrieved 2006-06-21. 
• Sun Microsystems' Java TV