NDS chosen to power SMM for IPTV and Mobile TV in Russia
By Ben Robinson on Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 3:35 AM PST In Convergence, DVB-H, Mobile TV
Sistema Mass Media (SMM) has chosen a suite of NDS technologies to secure and manage both its IPTV and mobile TV platforms – resulting in the delivery of a true convergence play for it’s subscriber services. NDS’s Unified Headend(TM) will cover set-top boxes, PCs, and a variety of Mobile devices.
The NDS Unified Headend(TM) 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). SMM will use the NDS Unified Headend to deliver content to STBs, PCs and mobile devices with optimum operational efficiency, using a single system to control content distribution.
The Mobile TV part of the offering will be DVB-H (yay!), and launch in 16 cities that have populations over 1 million. Because SMM is a broadcaster, the DVB-H service will be MNO-independent.
VideoGuard Mobile supports both the Open Security Framework (OSF) and OMA BCAST smartcard profile standards and offers a clear and seamless migration path between both. VideoGuard Mobile is fully compliant with DVB-H, DVB-SH, DMB, MediaFLO, CMMB and STIMI standards.
It’s likely that the devices will be from Samsung, LG, and Gigabyte (what no Nokia (NYSE: NOK)??).
[Via: marketwatch.com]
