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

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

PARIS, February 12/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

Source: viaccess

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

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