OIC/UPnPr To Ease IoT Offerings to Cable Customers, CableLabs Says
The Open Internet Consortium's planned purchase of UPnP Forum means UPnP "will be maintained and supported for as long as cable requires," CableLabs principal IoT architect Clarke Stevens said in a blog post Wednesday about the significance of the acquisition…
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to the cable industry. OIC will put together a UPnP Working Group for maintenance of UPnP specifications and certification, which helps as some cable products require UPnP certification, CableLabs said. Much of UPnP Forum's work involved IoT matters in recent years, and the online OneIoTa tool it developed under CableLabs guidance for developing and adopting device definitions also will be available to OIC members, CableLabs said. CableLabs said it was "a major contributor" to both UPnP and OIC standards development, and the combination will turn OIC "into a system that enables cable operators to offer a coherent and simplified Internet of Things service to cable customers."