The DTLA said it has withdrawn a petition at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) , which, if successful, could have forced CableLabs to adopt DTCP-IP. CableLabs had previously approved DTCP for protection of content over the IEEE 1394 "Firewire" interface.

    Cable Labs' adoption of DTCP-IP should have little to no effect on home networks based on the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) , an IP-based platform that supports speeds up to 270 Mbit/s. MSOs -- and telcos like Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ - message board) -- are using MOCA to support multi-room digital video recorders and other bandwidth-intensive applications that ride on in-home coax wires.

    "The MOCA network is agnostic to all IP-based content protection and will pass the packets as encrypted so that only devices that are designed and authorized to receive and decrypt will be able to do so," said MOCA president Charles Cerino, in an emailed statement.