MoCA Home

MoCA® Technology Standard

MoCA Home

Reliable Connectivity for Broadband Living

Enhanced Home Experience: Supports working, learning, and streaming with ease.

High Performance: Fast, low-latency connections using existing coaxial cabling.

Trusted Technology: One of the most reliable in-home backbones for Wi-Fi®, adopted by cable, telco/IPTV, and satellite operators worldwide.

MoCA® Makes Wi-Fi®, Better

“I ended up running another coax line to my TV room dedicated to MoCA, and it was worth it. Viewing on-line TV using Ethernet over MoCA blows my 802.11ac connection out of the water – no more interminable waits for content to load. No more stutters or frame freezes. MoCA seems to be a perfect complement, if not replacement in some cases, to Wi-Fi, and I can see why Verizon, Comcast and others use it for their installs.”

Chris Taylor Director, RF & Wireless Components Strategy Analytics

Fast

2.5 Actual MAC Throughput

2.5 Gbps MAC throughput for HD and 4K streaming.

Responsive

Less than 5ms Latency

<5ms latency for Ethernet-like performance.

Reliable

Uses existing wires

Leverages existing coax; proven since 2007 across U.S. homes.

MoCA Home 2.5 Specifications

2.5 Gbps 2.5 MAC

< 2.5 ms one-way avg latency

400 – 1675 MHz Usable Spectrum

Quality of Service (QoS)

Power saving states

Secure Onboarding

Password Remote Provisioning for User Self-Install

Enhanced privacy

Centralized dynamic resource sharing

Co-exists with TV, and 5G technologies

MoCASec™ Peer-to-Peer MoCA® Link Security

MoCA Home 2.5 Use Cases

Wi-Fi Backhaul

Intelligent NID

MoCA® Certified Products

Technical Documentation

MoCA Home™ for Wi-Fi™

MoCA® Makes Wi-Fi™ Better. MoCA® gives the home network the WiFi boost it needs. MoCA technology delivers real world home networking speeds up to 2.5 Gbps. And because it’s a wired connection, you can count on a quality, low-lag experience for video streaming and online gaming.

Field Tests Demonstrate That Wi-Fi® Mesh in the Home Still Requires a Wire – Test Report

MoCA field tests that compared three different Wi-Fi mesh-based products in a home networking environment, vs. a Wi-Fi network that used MoCA as the backhaul. The results showed a dramatic improvement in Wi-Fi performance when using MoCA 2.0 as the backhaul, compared to a Wi-Fi-based backhaul only.

Wi-Fi® In-premise Problems

Written by Kinney Bacon, PE Principal Engineer Premises Technology Cox Communications, this document outlines problematic areas for Wi-Fi within buildings and solutions to those problems.

MoCA Home™ for DOCSIS

MoCA is designed to co-exist with legacy services such as TV, DOCSIS, and cellular (4G/5G) technologies. The operating frequency range is 400MHz – 1675MHz.

Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Standard: SCTE 235

Operational Practice for the Coexistence of DOCSIS 3.1 Signals and MoCA Signals in the Home Environment

MoCA Home™ for Remote Management

How to: MoCA Network Password Remote Provisioning for User Self-Install

Allows zero configuration networking for new MoCA based device added to a MoCA network in privacy mode, by provisioning the MoCA network password over the coax medium prior to admission.

Remote Management of MoCA Interfaces using SNMP MIB

This memo defines an optional Multimedia over Coax Alliance Management Information Base and a recommended way of using the MIB with Simple Network Management Protocol to remotely configure, monitor, and diagnose a device that supports one or more MoCA interfaces.

MoCA Home for Security
MoCASec™

MoCASec™ Peer-to-Peer MoCA® Link Security

MoCASec is a robust security layer that provides point-to-point link privacy enabling seamless integration of MoCA technology into home networks supporting the Wi-Fi Alliance’s EasyMesh™ standard. It provides the same security and privacy level maintained by Ethernet in wired and wireless links.

MoCA Home™ for Gaming

Gaming with a Wire: MOCA vs. Wi-Fi for Gamers

The massive bandwidth and lowest possible latency required from the network by gaming makes gaming a great case study for how a network will perform for you with multiple (and growing!) devices streaming work, learning, and play in the home.

Keep Tabs on MoCA® Development

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