Broadcast – cable, digital terrestrial and satellite
Digital broadcast delivery mechanisms - cable, satellite and digital terrestrial - have been hugely successful all round the world. Today around 150 million consumers obtain Pay TV through these delivery mechanisms. A penalty of this success is that broadcasters come under attack by the unscrupulous, which is why we design industrial strength CA for broadcasters.
Over 4 years ago Latens launched the first DVB® compliant CA system that did not rely on smart cards or an embedded proprietary chip in the STB, aimed at two-way networks. Advances in technology made the new generation of CA systems a possibility. Still most CA vendors resisted the change away from smart cards, but “software only” or “downloadable” CA is now the standard for IPTV deployments and is fast taking off in broadband cable in the USA and Europe. The advantages are simply too many to hold it back.
Now, with advances in set top box silicon design and software techniques, together with innovative design from Latens, “software only” CAS is available for one-way broadcast DVB® networks. This means the same advanced security, cost and business flexibility benefits can be made available to satellite DTH, digital terrestrial, and cable operators around the world.
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