Multimedia over Coax Alliance

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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 cabling with optical fiber or twisted pair cabling. 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. The most recently released version of the standard, MoCA 3.0, supports speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s. As of 2021, this technology is not yet available in customer premises equipment. MoCA technology has evolved through several generations. Early MoCA specifications provided networking speeds suitable for distributing multimedia content within a home, while later versions increased throughput and improved network efficiency.MoCA 2.x introduced substantially higher data rates than...

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