Multimedia over Coax Alliance

Multimedia over Coax Alliance
AbbreviationMoCA
StatusPublished
Year started2004[1]
First publishedFebruary 2006 (2006-02)[2]
Latest version2.5
13 April 2016[3]
Preview version3.0
Related standardsEthernet
DomainComputer networking
LicenseProprietary
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The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) is an international standards consortium that publishes specifications for networking over coaxial cable. The technology was originally developed to distribute IP television in homes using existing cabling, but is now used as a general-purpose Ethernet link where it is inconvenient or undesirable to replace existing coaxial cable with optical fiber or twisted pair cabling.[4][5]

MoCA 1.0 was approved in 2006, MoCA 1.1 in April 2010, MoCA 2.0 in June 2010, and MoCA 2.5 in April 2016.[3] The most recently released version of the standard, MoCA 3.0, supports speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s. This technology is not yet available to customers.[6]

  1. ^ Monk, Anton; Lee, Ronald; Hebron, Yoav (2013-07-12). "The Multimedia Over Coax Alliance". Proceedings of the IEEE. 101 (11): 2322–2338. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2013.2266299. ISSN 0018-9219. S2CID 2950192. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
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  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference moca-2.5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ O'Shea, Dan (2006-11-20). "The IPTV battle enters the home". Telephony. 247 (19). Chicago, United States: Informa: 20–21. eISSN 2161-8690. ISSN 0040-2656. ProQuest 213945879. Retrieved 2021-01-13 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Zhou, Shujia; Song, Yingxiong; Lin, Rujian (2011-09-25). FTTB multimedia access solution based on MoCA technology. 2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on Communication Technology. pp. 1037–1040. doi:10.1109/ICCT.2011.6158037. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  6. ^ Bacon, Kinney (February 20, 2021). "A Preview of 10G Enabling Technologies". Broadband Library.