NDS Partners with Alcatel-Lucent to Protect and Power MediaCorp, MobileOne (M1), SingTel and StarHub Mobile TV Trial
Highlights:
- NDS provides market leading conditional access (CA) solution
for world’s first commercial trial of the Open Mobile
Alliance (OMA)’s BCAST Smartcard Profile (SCP) standard
- Industry leaders MediaCorp, MobileOne (M1), SingTel, and
StarHub lead ground-breaking mobile TV trial
- Innovative NDS solution combines industry-leading content
protection from VideoGuard Mobile™ with the revolutionary
NDS Unified Headend™ convergence platform
SINGAPORE – October 13, 2008 — NDS,
the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV,
today announced that it is providing the core conditional access
(CA) security infrastructure for the world’s first commercial
trial of the new OMA BCAST SCP standard, an emerging key standard
for mobile TV content protection in Singapore.
Mobile telecommunications providers M1, SingTel and StarHub
are working with MediaCorp, the country’s leading media
company, to run the three-month trial. Alcatel-Lucent’s
Mobile Interactive TV solution powers the DVB-H (Digital Video
Broadcasting-Handheld) platform for the trial. The trial includes
mobile devices from Samsung and Smartcard Profile-compliant SIM
cards from Gemalto.
The NDS solution is based on NDS
Unified Headend™ architecture,
which provides a single point of rights management for all video
broadcasts, irrespective of the delivery networks or the rendering
devices. The new platform supports multiple mobile broadcast
profiles and multiple handsets simultaneously and cost-effectively,
centralising content distribution from a single headend for consumption
on multiple devices
Mock Pak Lum, MediaCorp’s Managing Director for Technologies
said, “The mobile phone is truly a unique platform as a
third screen for TV content. The success of the mobile TV service
depends on availability of handsets and a good user experience.
We are very happy that NDS is supporting us for this trial.”
“We are pleased to be able to partner with NDS to provide
Singapore’s leading mobile communications industry players
with more advanced mobile TV options for Singaporeans,” said
Oliver Foo, Managing Director, Singapore and Brunei, Alcatel-Lucent. “Asian
subscribers are ready for a mobile TV offering that delivers
a large variety of choices, a high level of personalisation,
maximum interactivity and great quality of service.”
“NDS is proud to be providing world leading conditional
access technology for this groundbreaking trial,” said
Sue Taylor, Senior VP and General Manager of NDS Asia Pacific. “Being
selected to partner with Alcatel-Lucent, M1, MediaCorp, SingTel
and StarHub is a validation of the technology leadership of NDS.
The market is changing and NDS is at the forefront, delivering
pioneering technology for convergent solutions."
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About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable
service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice,
data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile
and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services,
Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications
services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more
than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The
company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and
one of the largest research, technology and innovation organisations in the
telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8
billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located
in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
About M1
M1, Singapore’s most exciting and innovative mobile, broadband
and IDD service provider, was launched in April 1997. Since
then, it has made significant inroads into the local mobile
communications market, gaining considerable brand presence
and market share. M1 aims to be the leader in personal voice,
business and data communications, focusing on value, quality
and customer service. More information on M1 is available at
www.m1.com.sg
About MediaCorp
MediaCorp is Singapore’s leading media company with the
most complete range of platforms, spanning television, radio,
newspapers, magazines, movies and digital media. www.mediacorp.com.sg
About SingTel
SingTel is Asia’s leading communications group providing a portfolio
of services including voice and data services over fixed, wireless
and Internet platforms. www.singtel.com
About StarHub
StarHub is Singapore’s fully-integrated info-communication company,
offering a full range of information, communications and entertainment
services for both consumer and corporate markets. www.starhub.com
About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of
News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology
and services to digital pay-television platform operators and
content providers. See www.nds.com for
more information about NDS.
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