Highlights:
-
NDS provides market leading conditional access (CA) solution for world’s
first commercial trial of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)’s
BCAST Smartcard Profile (SCP) standard
-
Industry leaders MediaCorp, MobileOne (M1), SingTel, and StarHub lead
ground-breaking mobile TV trial
-
Innovative NDS solution combines industry-leading content protection
from VideoGuard Mobile™ with the
revolutionary NDS Unified Headend™
convergence platform
NDS
(Nasdaq:NNDS), the leading provider of technology solutions for digital
pay-TV, today announced that it is providing the core conditional access
(CA) security infrastructure for the world’s
first commercial trial of the new OMA BCAST SCP standard, an emerging
key standard for mobile TV content protection in Singapore.
Mobile telecommunications providers M1, SingTel and StarHub are working
with MediaCorp, the country’s leading media
company, to run the three-month trial. Alcatel-Lucent’s
Mobile Interactive TV solution powers the DVB-H (Digital Video
Broadcasting-Handheld) platform for the trial. The trial includes mobile
devices from Samsung and Smartcard Profile-compliant SIM cards from
Gemalto.
The NDS solution is based on NDS
Unified Headend™ architecture, which
provides a single point of rights management for all video broadcasts,
irrespective of the delivery networks or the rendering devices. The new
platform supports multiple mobile broadcast profiles and multiple
handsets simultaneously and cost-effectively, centralising content
distribution from a single headend for consumption on multiple devices.
Mock Pak Lum, MediaCorp’s Managing Director
for Technologies said, “The mobile phone is
truly a unique platform as a third screen for TV content. The success of
the mobile TV service depends on availability of handsets and a good
user experience. We are very happy that NDS is supporting us for this
trial.”
“We are pleased to be able to partner with
NDS to provide Singapore’s leading mobile
communications industry players with more advanced mobile TV options for
Singaporeans,” said Oliver Foo, Managing
Director, Singapore and Brunei, Alcatel-Lucent.
