IBC 2015: Viaccess-Orca ‘reinvents’ content security


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| 05 September 2015





Content services protection and enhancement technology provider Viaccess-Orca is claiming that its new converged card and cardless conditional access system (CAS) is set to reinvent the industry sector.


Adaptive Sentinel is said to offer the best of both worlds and an ‘unprecedented’ ease of transition between cardless and card-based technologies, unified over an end-to-end solution architecture. The former is said to guarantee a fast and cost-effective launch of service for operators to manage their subscriber base flexibly and dynamically, while allowing seamless transition to card-based technologies in order to expand services and security. The card option is attributed with benefiting from the latest generation of Viaccess-Orca's smart cards.

Adaptive Sentinel also supports a range of pay-TV business models, including subscription TV, à la carte, and prepaid, to enable revenue growth. The CAS is pre-integrated with set top box (STB) middleware and CAM modules, ensuring fast time to market. The ecosystem was built with renowned partners such as Neotion and Jiuzhou. Another major component is a new generation of the company’s smart card PC6, released earlier this year. The PC6 smart card strengthens security against advanced smart card and STB threats, allowing operators to have dedicated hardware configuration and customised smart cards.

The result, says Viaccess-Orca, is that operators have a secure, flexible, and cost-effective security solution pre-integrated with other ecosystem components, enabling a quicker time to market for pay-TV services.

"Operators strive for content security that is simple, affordable, and responsive to both the evolving business imperatives of their content agreements and the reality of the content piracy landscape," explained David Leporini, EVP Marketing Products and Security at Viaccess-Orca. "Adaptive Sentinel has been designed to answer service providers' challenges for content security rollout, evolution and migration, as the needs of the services they offer change over time."

Several Viaccess-Orca customers have already announced plans to migrate over to the new generation of smart card. Orange France will introduce Viaccess-Orca's new-generation smart card on its satellite signal by the end of 2015 while the M7 Group — a Pan-European provider of DTH satellite and IPTV 3P services that operates multiple brands such as Canal Digital and Online.nl in the Netherlands and Skylink in the Czech Republic and Slovakia — will do likewise.