ART Selects Viaccess to Secure its Pay-TV Platforms for the Middle Eastern Market

ART Selects Viaccess to Secure its Pay-TV Platforms for the Middle Eastern Market

PARIS, November 11/PRNewswire/ -- Viaccess, a France Telecom company, leader in conditional access
announced today that ART (Arab Radio and Television Network), the leading
broadcaster of premium Arabic family programming and entertainment worldwide,
will deploy Viaccess' Praha card to secure its Pay TV satellite platforms in
the middle east region.

In the next coming months, ART and VIACCESS will strenghten their current
collaboration to smoothly migrate the operator's satellite platforms and
set-top-box (STB) population to the Praha Card (Proactive Against Hacker
Attacks), one of the leading conditional access systems which is proactive
against card sharing and enables hacker attack analysis.

Viaccess and ART have been long-time partners in the North African region
for more than 11 years as ART selected VIACCESS to securely deliver pay-TV
content. ART produces over 6000 live and recorded shows every year including
family oriented dramas, series, plays, sports programs, music videos, and
documentaries. The network has the largest Arabic movie library in the Middle
East and (as part of the AMC conglomerate) has been associated with leading
film production houses in the Arab world for well over 30 years.

"Our world class content protection products will bring premium content
to ART consumers" said François Moreau de Saint Martin, VIACCESS CEO. "The
extension of our partnership with ART for the Middle eastern market is the
ultimate proof of the benefits provided by our security technology."

"Being the main player of Pay TV in the MENA region, ART
Network needs to be the pioneer in adopting the latest technology that is
shaping the future of our industry" said Abdul Aziz Yamani, AMC CEO. "The
shift is of strategic implications, and VIACCESS technology meets our
requirements and objectives."

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,
E anthony.marechal@viaccess.com,
http://www.viaccess.com

Source: viaccess

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

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