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Bridge Technologies is launching the VB330, the latest addition to its VideoBRIDGE series of digital media probes, at the IPTV World Forum in London. The VB330 offers the highest performance to form-factor ratio available in a monitoring and analysis probe. With three blades fitting in a single 1RU chassis for a total of six 10GB interfaces, the VB330 delivers a massive monitoring and analytics capability. Designed for extremely high-density applications at points of maximum data throughput in today's 10GB core networks, the VB330's enormous capacity offers telcos, network operators, and digital media organizations a monitoring solution with the potential for scaling to match any level of traffic. The VB330 takes its place alongside Bridge Technologies' existing range of probes for all points in the digital media chain, and is fully compatible with the sophisticated VideoBRIDGE monitoring and analysis environment, which provides the visual analysis and monitoring tools required to make instant sense of very large amounts of data. Alternatively, the VB330 can be integrated with third-party systems through its Eii™ external integration interface.
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Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) will demo its end-to-end television solutions, from content management, packaging and delivery, to the ultimate user experience on the consumer's screen of choice at the IP&TV World Forum. Ericsson will focus on the new world of entertainment and multimedia, a world filled with more content, more screens and more services and how these opportunities can be efficiently and reliably delivered by operators to the consumer. Visitors to Ericsson's IP&TV World Forum stand (119) can learn how exciting new developments within the company's range of solutions for IPTV, Hybrid and the Connected World are addressing the latest trends and viewer demands with:
- Content Management and Packaging: Ericsson will be demonstrating an end-to-end content acquisition and distribution solution utilizing a combination of products including Xport® Time-Shifted Television (TSTV) and WatchPoint® Content Management System (CMS). The Xport TSTV is uniquely designed to support any time-shifted business model via end-to-end management of rights, recording and viewing of content bound for any screen. The WatchPoint CMS provides centralized management of any metadata format, content type and any workflow process, providing the infrastructure for an efficient multi-screen strategy and accelerating VOD business across multiple platforms
- Content Delivery: Ericsson Consumer Lab studies show that picture quality is one of the most critical factors demanded by consumers. From venue to viewer, the company's contribution, distribution and direct-to-home video processing solutions are best in class and enable over 2000 broadcasters and operators to manage bandwidth and deliver the best picture quality. Ericsson's award winning video compression engineering team is focused on enabling the optimum video quality at the lowest possible bit-rates. This also frees up bandwidth for new and premium video services, driving new revenue models and enabling a richer consumer experience
- Solutions for HD and SD will be on display, enabled by the recently announced Video Processor Chassis (VPC) and its key encode or transcode modules, as well as a new high density, multi-functional, video processing platform. The highest performance HD compression of any vendor will be shown for IPTV, where HD bandwidths and picture quality are the most critical enablers to customer satisfaction and increased revenues
- Ericsson will also showcase its MDN (Media Distribution Network), a complete solution for the delivery of video over IP which combines a content distribution network (CDN) with Ericsson's broader TV portfolio to deliver a media centric solution to the growing amount of video on the Internet
- To enhance the video quality to all the Mobile screens such as Smart phones, Tablets and PCs, Ericsson will showcase the market leading converged end-to-end policy control to make the network aware of service, user and end-device
- User Experience: Ericsson will show how its suite of products and solutions are enabling the next generation television experience. Demonstrations will include solutions that provide a consistent experience across different platforms. Ericsson's commercial multiscreen TV offering (shortlisted for Best Multiscreen TV Service in the IP&TV World Series Awards) will be on show in London, which combines the full features of IPTV, Mobile TV, and WebTV with a common look and feel of the user interface. The solution is customizable to the operator's exact needs and reduces operational expenditure, which in turn keeps costs down for the end user
Ericsson's IPTV Remote
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Intelsat S.A. has announced that Sun TV Network Ltd. (Sun TV) has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for C-band capacity on the recently launched Intelsat 17 satellite (IS-17) at the 66 degrees East orbital location. The agreement marks the second major programmer to join the line-up at Intelsat's newly expanded video neighborhood in the Indian Ocean region. Sun TV, India’s leading regional media group, will use the new satellite capacity to expand its programming distribution to viewers across India and beyond. Sun TV will migrate its current 20 channels to IS-17 and use additional bandwidth to support its expansion plans. The IS-17 satellite was launched in November 2010 and entered service in January 2011. It provides C- and Ku-band capacity across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia from the aforementioned orbital location, with an expected service life through 2026.
IS-17 during testing, photo courtesy of Space Systems Loral.
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Nagra, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company, has announced that more than 80 million Nagra-certified secure chipsets embedding the Nagra On-Chip Security (NOCS) technology have been produced since 2003, with nearly 22 million Nagra-certified chipsets produced in 2010 alone. NOCS technology, an essential element of Nagra security solutions, continues to evolve since the visionary program was first launched nearly a decade ago to protect media content and operator services on the set-top box and in the home network. NOCS brings the hardware “root of trust” that ensures platform security and as a result protects service providers’ investments in consumer devices. More than just a security technology, NOCS is a complete infrastructure, which includes a certification process and keys management system to ensure a secure and consistent implementation and personalisation of Nagra security features across different chipsets. Combined with Nagra products, NOCS brings the full breadth of security “into the device, on the device and out of the device”, which is needed for upcoming early window video-on-demand (VOD) services. Additionally, NOCS has multiple security features that prevent memory and CPU illegitimate access, ensure software integrity, protect the Control Words against keys sharing type of attacks and enable highly secure CA/DRM technologies. Nagra first specified NOCS to chipset manufacturers in 2002, and certified the first chipset model in 2003. The latest version, NOCS 1.2, was released in 2010 and the next generation is already under development as Nagra continues to evolve the technology beyond STBs to connected TVs. Over the last eight years, nearly 70 different chipset models from all major set-top box chipsets providers have been certified and embedded in set-top boxes to serve more than 120 pay-TV operators worldwide.
Satnews Daily
March 22nd, 2011
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