The OCA Alliance announced the availability of the latest revision of the standard, AES70-2024, which introduces several additions. Along with new classes, the update features new methods, a new specification for using the OCP.1 protocol, and several documentation updates.

Fully backwards compatible with existing implementations, AES70-2024 continues to expand the technical foundations of the growing and evolving OCA ecosystem. Summaries and overviews of the most recent additions to the standard can be found on the OCA Alliance website: https://ocaalliance.com/latest-updates/

“AES70 is very much a living and evolving standard, and we are grateful to the developers and contributors who continue to support and expand it,” says Ethan Wetzell, marketing chair for the OCA Alliance. “As media networks expand in relevance and complexity, the ability of AES70 to grow in parallel to offer new components and solutions enhances the value for developers in combining standards and technologies to create holistic solutions.”

The update includes:

• Protocol specification for using AES70 over point-to-point links: AES70-3 has been rearranged and expanded to include a specification for using the OCP.1 protocol over point-to-point links.
• New control class OcaGroup: simplified and more flexible control-aggregation class.
• Simplified OcaMatrix control class: simpler and more flexible matrix control class.
• New class OcaCommandSetAgent: easy-to-use class for immediate execution of a set of AES70 commands with one call.
• New OcaSubscriptionManager methods for registering multiple subscriptions: new methods that allow a controller to set up multiple subscriptions with a single call. All types of subscriptions are supported.
• Small corrections: fixes to various typographical errors and cross-reference issues.

Details on AES70-enabled products are here: https://ocaalliance.com/products/