VCAS for Cable IPTV
The Verimatrix VCAS for Cable IPTV offers cable operators a secure, cost-effective solution to deliver next generation IPTV services over cable plant – now. Integrating the GigaQAM® CMTS1 bypass solution with VCAS robust software-based content security, the solution converts an existing cable system to an asymmetric IP network perfectly suited for IPTV. Multicast and unicast streams are delivered to off-the-shelf IP-STBs and PCs via low-cost cable modems.
VCAS for Cable IPTV offers cable operators a rapid response to accelerating demands for HD and on-demand services, while dramatically reducing the cost of advanced set-top box deployment. IP technologies are recognized as the key solution for reclaiming bandwidth and broadening service offerings on limited capacity cable plant. VCAS for Cable IPTV provides a secure, cost-effective solution to deliver these next generation video services – and provides it now.
The key features and benefits of this approach include:
- Enables secure IPTV services on existing two-way cable plant.
- Reclaims and creates bandwidth for new services.
- Fulfills the FCC mandate of separable security.
- Works with both analog and digital cable systems.
- Offer quick introduction of IP-based premium services.
- Complies both with the U.S. DOCSIS and EuroDOCSIS standards.
Cable operators benefit from the development boom in IPTV technologies and gain access to the vast ecosystem of Verimatrix, including a wide variety of pre-integrated IP-STBs, MPEG-4 encoders and interactive middleware.
The solution will especially appeal to operators with both telco and cable networks: a single head-end, single content protection system and one type of CPE equipment for both types of networks. By deploying a unified IPTV solution for both the telco and cable networks, the operator benefits from lower total cost, ease of operation and streamlined customer support.
For U.S. operators, VCAS for Cable IPTV offers the additional benefit of fulfilling the FCC mandate of separable security. Verimatrix offers a layered system of proven downloadable, software-based content security – no need for proprietary embedded security hardware in the receivers.
VCAS security has been approved by all major studios for protection of premium content as well as by all the major broadcasters. The VCAS security architecture has received very favorable results in independent audits and is the approved security choice in pay-TV operator deployments on a worldwide basis. As the global leader in software-based security, VCAS offers flexibility in choice of client devices, broad middleware interoperability and proven scalability.
The Verimatrix solution to content security offers unique value through:
- Software-based content security for cost effective deployment and flexible response to attacks
- Unquestioned content security for IPTV – independently audited – zero exposures
- MultiCAS – standards-based unified security across broadcast and IPTV networks
- CMTS Bypass – enabling IPTV on cable networks
- Best security perimeter for IPTV and hybrid networks
- Industry leader in user-specific watermarking
- Broad range of STB and PC client choices, as well as HW and SW system partners
- Widest deployed system in Tier 1 operators globally
In addition, the Verimatrix software-based content security approach can offer a more sophisticated level of content protection, compared to the piracy-prone smart card-based systems, through a combination of innovative and patent pending technologies that can detect and alert to the presence of content theft through cloning of clients.
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1 CMTS = Cable Modem Termination System, a DOCSIS head-end component. DOCSIS® (Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.)
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