Irdeto to secure T-Mobile Hungary and Antenna Hung
Irdeto, a specialist in content security for digital TV, IPTV and mobile, has announced it has been selected by Hungary's leading mobile operator, T Mobile Hungary and Antenna Hungária, Hungary's leading broadcast-service provider, to provide its Irdeto Mobile Broadcast content security solution for the companies' DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) end-to-end technical trial.
For the trial, Antenna Hungária brings the broadcast expertise and infrastructure to deliver mobile TV and related interactive broadcast services to T-Mobile in Hungary's capital city, Budapest. The trial will test interactive services, technical capabilities and performance of the DVB-H solution.
"AH enjoys the main position in the Hungarian broadcasting market where the key opportunity is the forthcoming digitalization. AH aims to be the main digital technology service provider, offering services also for mobile operators. Consequently, entering the mobile TV broadcasting market via DVB-H is one of the most important strategic initiatives for the company," said Mr. András Tóth, director of Communication and Marketing for Antenna Hungária.
With nearly 40 years of experience in pay TV technology solutions, Irdeto was selected because of its proven experience in securing content for mobile TV. As the world leader in conditional access (CA) and DRM for the mobile market, Irdeto is the only company with live customers using Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcast (S-DMB), Terrestrial Digital Media Broadcasting (T-DMB) and DVB-H technologies. In addition, the Irdeto Mobile Broadcast conditional access (CA) solution was the world's first content security system deployed for mobile broadcast services. Irdeto technology is currently integrated into more than 90 different devices from leading manufacturers including mobile phones, PDAs, PMPs and in-car devices, making it the most-integrated mobile TV security solution in the world. The solution uses patented technologies to support up to 16 million active mobile TV subscribers.
"Irdeto has been developing and deploying mobile TV content security solutions for nearly four years now," said Graham Kill, CEO of Irdeto. "Our implementation experience, our support of every major mobile standard including DVB-H, T/S-DMB and MediaFLO and the outstanding availability of Irdeto-integrated handsets will continue to make Irdeto the provider of choice for mobile TV operators worldwide."
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