Viaccess, a specialist in conditional access, has announced a partnership with LG Electronics, Enensys, Expway and Sagem Orga to secure access to mobile broadcast TV based on the OMA BCAST SmartCard Profile Standard. The initiative launched by the partners aims at providing customers and operators with a production ready end to end environment, including handset from LG Electronics. The full scope system, available for trials and production deployments, includes optimised capacities inherited from each of the partners' exclusive features.
Viaccess's Conditional Access System dedicated to OMA Bcast Smartcard
profile standard provides enhanced security and renewability, and reduces SIM
management costs for Mobile Operators.With this new approach from Viaccess,
OMA BCAST standard will ensure compatibility with standard handsets while
bringing additional security features. OMA BCAST standard is today the most
performing standard for interoperable Mobile TV. Teaming with Enensys,
Expway, LG Electronics, and Sagem Orga, Viaccess has conducted early
interoperability schemes and the partnership announces a fully deployable
solution. Solution is performing and flexible enough to fit any redundancy
level as per operator's requirements, thus fitting scenarii from
experimentation chain up to commercial deployment of DVB-H.
"Our partnership with LG Electronics, Enensys, Expway and Sagem Orga
demonstrates our full interoperability with the Broadcast mobile TV market,"
explains Francois Moreau de Saint Martin, Viaccess CEO. "We believe the best
value we can propose to our clients is turning the best in class products
into immediately deployable solutions, and minimise integration costs. That's
why Viaccess is building an ecosystem with partners to ensure compatibility
of our solutions with the complete chain of broadcast equipment and
receivers."
Richard Lhermitte, Enensys VP Marketing said: "The integrated DVB-H BCAST
SCP system we've built, thanks to the close relationship with Viaccess,
Expway and LG, ensures operators get a fully interoperable turnkey solution.
This allows us to provide a cutting-edge solution while reducing integration
time and cost for our customers, and enabling them to build a secured
business plan."
Mr Nicolas Andrieu, VP Sales at Expway comments on this partnership: "The integration of FastESG(TM) ESG OMA Edition with Viaccess SCP conditional access system, Enensys Broadcast equipments along with LG handsets will definitely foster the distribution of high-value content over mobile networks worldwide. This strengthens our time-to-market leadership."