VCAS Product Components and Options
Verimatrix delivers a modular range of product components and options addressing key challenges of pay-TV operators for different type of video delivery networks, such as DVB, IPTV and Internet TV/OTT. These components implement the versatile functionality provided by the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™). A specific VCAS pay-TV operator solution consists of combinations of the components optimized for a specific market segment. Based on a highly modular system architecture and efficient form factor, VCAS is inherently cost effective for the smallest deployment while scaling easily to operations with millions of subscribers.
A key VCAS value-add is the common entitlement and management interface, which provides a single point of integration with business management systems. Uniquely, while any DRM may support a multi-device domain concept, VCAS enables cross-DRM subscriber domain management, a.k.a. VCAS Super Domains. Specifically, when content is entitled to a subscriber’s domain (as opposed to a device), it is automatically available to all that domain’s devices, whether IPTV, DVB, HLS, Marlin or PlayReady DRM clients.
Key Features
- Platform OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
- Database: Oracle (10g R2 Enterprise Edition)
- Digital certificates: X.509 compliant, 1024-bit PKI signature hierarchy
- GUI: Flexible Java-based secure administrative functions
- Monitoring and logging: Comprehensive and secure
- Scalability: From trial system to millions of subscribers
- Video encoding: MPEG-2, MPEG-4/H.264, VC1, DivX (format independent)
- Video encapsulation: MPEG-2 Transport Stream/HTTP Live Streaming
- Content encryption: 128-bit AES. DVB-CSA by third-party scrambler
- Network management integration: SNMP v1, v2c, v3
- VOD content ingestion: Manual or automated with flexible workflow
- Streamer/mux interface: DVB Simulcrypt (ETSI TS 103 197 1.5.1, ECMG and EMMG)
- Head-end integration: Via Verimatrix OMI using SOAP services
- Hierarchical distribution: Multi-level content delivery without intermediate re-encryption
- Client flexibility: Wide range of broadcast/hybrid STBs, mobile devices, connected TVs, and PC/Mac platforms
- Clone detection: Revenue protection through monitoring techniques and reporting
- Watermarking: Robust tracing of illegitimate content copies through patented VideoMark™ and StreamMark® user specific watermarking implementations