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VO Pay TV CAS
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Protect your assets from piracy
The global pay TV market including cable, satellite and IPTV is expected to reach 858.1 million at the end of 2012; that's a 5% year-on-year increment from 2011 according to ABI Research. Across the globe digitization, over-the-top (OTT) services and interactivity trends are reshaping this user-driven dynamic market space.
In this competitive market space, content service providers must be able to create an extensive offering of desirable, premium content in order to grow their subscriber base. In developing countries, this means transitioning from limited analog platforms to the rich service functionality provided by digital solutions. In advanced markets, where the digitization is firmly established, the focus shifts to the richness of the service offering. By continually introducing advanced services, such as personal video recording (PVR) and video-on-demand (VOD), and new packages, providers can enhance loyalty create additional revenue streams.
The key to getting premium content is security. In a world that exists under the constant threat of piracy, content owners are hard-pressed to protect their assets. New attacks that emulate or clone set-top-boxes (STBs), execute rights modification or create key-word sharing services are launched on a daily basis around the globe.
To earn and keep the trust of content owners, providers must use a conditional access solution that is field-proven, built by experts using a robust implementation and offers the needed services to fight piracy. The solution must be easy-to-deploy, while providing highly flexible service options and scalability to support future business growth.
Designed to address individual customer requirements and level of security, Viaccess-Orca CAS solution features card-based and card-less CAS platforms. The solution empowers broadcasters to differentiate themselves by protecting their content for; from free scrambling TV to advanced, on-demand services such as push VOD, hybrid VOD and PVR features.
With more than 20 years of experience, VO has vast knowledge and expertise in protecting premium content and helping content service providers grow their revenue streams. The VO Pay TV CAS solution is a comprehensive, solution with advanced security features on both the server and STB such as:
- Trusted STB against control word sharing
- Secured boot loader for secure software upgrades
- Rich range of smart counter-measures
As part of a pre-integrated eco-system, the VO solution can be launched quickly with a wide selection of system and STB vendors. With a scalable architecture, the solution easily adapts to support a growing customer base. Furthermore, in order to accelerate time-to-market, reduce operational costs and enable operators to focus on their core business, VO offers managed and hosted Pay TV CAS services.
To support the growing adoption of connected TVs and other consumer devices, VO provides conditional access modules (CAMs) with support for CI+. This initiative offers additional security and features to the proven DVB Common Interface Standard, which enables Integrated Digital TV's and STB's, access to a wide range of pay TV services via plug-in modules.
In addition, VO's security solution for content service providers and Pay TV operators offers a unique security service designed to keep operators at the forefront of the anti-piracy frontier. The service includes proactive activities such as continuous monitoring of security risks and technical counter measures. In case of an incident, an immediate set of reactive processes can be triggered to resolve the breach and help in the prosecution of pirates.
- Card-based conditional access platform - state-of-the art security using VO's latest smart card generation Card. The platform provides proactive security features such as advanced card sharing behavioral analysis and sanctioning.
- Card-less conditional access platform - protects high-value content, while reducing the total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) through a combination of VO's cutting-edge security technology and the best embedded hardware technology available in the market.
- Conditional Access Modules (CAMs) - fully compliant with the DVB-CI standard and the support for the CI+ initiative, VO's certified CAMs support MPEG-2, MPEG-4/H.264, SD and HD signals.
- Security service - a unique security service comprised of proactive and reactive measures designed to keep operators at the forefront of the anti-piracy frontier
- Secure – a conditional access solution that is field-proven, built by experts using a robust implementation and offers the needed services to fight piracy.
- Accelerate – reduce time-to-market and start generating revenues quickly with an easy-to-deploy CAS solution.
- Optimize – using VO's managed services model enables content service providers to focus on their core business while letting our security experts manage the CAS operation.
- Grow – enjoy a position of trust with content owners, launch new advanced services and gain access to premium content in order to drive your business forward.
