NDS Unified Headend™ Wins ‘Best Content Protection Technology’ Product of the Year Award from Cable & Satellite International Magazine
- NDS wins Cable & Satellite International’s
prestigious Product of the Year Award at IBC 2008
- NDS Unified Headend™ end-to-end solution awarded ‘Best
Content Protection Technology’
- Solution allows operators to deliver a secure and
seamless entertainment experience across multiple screens
LONDON, UK – IBC Hall 1, Stand A71 – September
15, 2008 – NDS,
the leading provider of technology solutions for digital Pay-TV,
has won the ‘Best Product of the Year Award’ presented
at IBC 2008 Amsterdam by Cable & Satellite International
magazine (C&SI). NDS’ end-to-end solution NDS
Unified Headend™ was named ‘Best Content Protection
Technology.’
The NDS Unified Headend integrates conditional access (CA),
Digital Rights Management (DRM) and third-party applications,
allowing operators to deliver secure broadcast and Video-On-Demand
(VOD) services to a variety of devices – set-top boxes
(STBs), mobile phones, PCs, Portable Media Players (PMPs) and
digital video recorders (DVRs) – using a common infrastructure.
NDS Unified Headend therefore enables Pay-TV providers to realise
significant operational efficiencies.
With the NDS Unified Headend, NDS delivers on the promise of ‘four
screen’ convergence, enabling operators to deliver a seamless
TV and entertainment experience, and to create new compelling
applications for their customers. At the same time, operators
benefit from the ability to create new kinds of promotions with
multiple cross-platform business models.
In July 2008 NDS announced that Russian media giant Sistema
Mass Media (SMM) selected the NDS Unified Headend to manage
and protect TV content delivery to subscribers across both
IP and mobile networks. Earlier, in September 2007 ‘yes’,
the premier satellite broadcaster in Israel, chose to implement
NDS VideoGuard
PC™, a solution centring around the NDS Unified Headend.
“We are honoured to receive the Product of the Year Award
for Best Content Protection Technology from Cable & Satellite
International,” said Nigel Smith, NDS Chief Marketing Officer. “The
NDS Unified Headend clearly builds on our leadership in the conditional
access and DRM markets, and enables operators to deliver truly
converged services to their subscribers.”
To book your personal tour of the NDS stand, including the chance
to see the Converged Home of the Future – centred around
the NDS Unified Headend – and see how Pay-TV operators
can generate more revenue from the ‘four screens’ please
contact the NDS media relations team, details provided below.
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