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GlobeCast Selects Viaccess OMA BCAST SCP Solution for its DVB-H Trial Platform

Paris (ots/PRNewswire)

Viaccess, a France Telecom
company, leader in conditional access announced, today that it has
been selected by GlobeCast, a leading content management and delivery
company for broadcast, to provide its Viaccess Mobile Broadcast
service protection solution based on the OMA BCAST Smartcard profile
for use in a key trial platform to faciliate the commercial launch of
this technology in Europe.
The objective of this platform is to demonstrate both the
viability of DVB-H as a mobile television standard as well as the
expertise of GlobeCast as a technology integrator and end-to-end
service provider for television bouquet operators, regardless of
standard or networks used.
OMA BCAST smartcard profile 1.0 standard has been released in
January 2009. OMA BCAST standard is today the most performing
standard fully supported by the major handset manufacturers and
mobile network operators.
With more than 15 years experience in payTV, Viaccess was
selected for its track record in delivering mature and reliable
solutions and on the basis of the wide interoperability testing plans
that Viaccess did conduct with all its partners that provide the key
technologies necessary to deploy an end-to-end Mobile broadcast
solution.
Viaccess's Conditional Access System dedicated to OMA BCAST
Smartcard Profile standard handsets provides enhanced security and
security management, thus reducing SIM management costs for Mobile
Operators. This solution is compatible with any handset compliant
with OMA BCAST Smartcard Profile. This solution take advantage of the
outstanding experience of Viaccess in the pay TV business and the
related security challenges.
"Globecast provides integrated headend and delivery solutions
that include content aggregation for Mobile TV for 3G or DVB-H
networks, encoding, multiplexing and IP repurposing for content
delivery in any given format. In order to demonstrate our ability to
provide a full DVB-H service, GlobeCast recognized the need to
integrate a reliable content protection technology in its portfolio,"
says Stéphan Bergeon, Director of Business Development at GlobeCast.
Viaccess CEO François Moreau de Saint Martin says : << OMA BCAST
Smartcard profile has been recommended by all the industries to be
the unified standard used for Mobile TV broadcast. We are therefore
very proud to be selected by GlobeCast for the Smart Card Profile
platform as it will maintain our pioneer role in the mobile TV
arena."
About Viaccess:
Viaccess S.A., delivers solutions for digital pay television and
secured content distribution. Its mission is the development,
production and marketing of Conditional Access and DRM-based systems
for all types of contents and services, for every kind of broadcast
(satellite, cable, terrestrial, MMDS) and broadband networks, fixed
(DSL) and mobile. Viaccess has been successfully deployed in 30
countries world-wide, on more than 80 digital platforms including
multi-channel providers and digital content distributors. Viaccess is
one of the leading IPTV protection companies (MRG IPTV Market Leader
Report, March 2008). For more information : http://www.viaccess.com
Press Contact :
    Anthony Marechal T +33-1-44-45-65-35
     anthony.marechal@viaccess.com
    http://www.viaccess.com

Contact:

Press Contact : Anthony Marechal T +33-1-44-45-65-35,
anthony.marechal@viaccess.com