An Interoperability Test-Bed and Test Results for DAVIC 1.0Specification

This paper describes design and implementation of an interoperability test-bed for the Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC) 1.0 specification. The system was designed particularly to test end-to-end interfaces and protocols between a set-top unit (STU) and a server. Using the test-bed, NTT participated in two interoperability test events, which were held together with several companies in 1995 and 1996. This paper also outlines those activities and summarizes the findings.