NDS Selected by Inteleca to Provide End-to-End Digital Cable Solution in Siberia
Highlights:
- NDS provides Siberia-based Inteleca with end-to-end VideoGuard
Express® solution for digital cable
- VideoGuard Express offering includes market leading MediaHighway™ middleware,
an advanced set-top-box application as well as VideoGuard conditional
access technology
- Services to be rolled out in six additional cities in Siberia
following initial launch in Barnaul
- Planned future extension to support IPTV services
LONDON, UK – July 9, 2007 – NDS,
the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV,
today announced that it has signed a contract with Inteleca,
a triple-play operator in Siberia, Russia, to provide a VideoGuard
Express system for the planned launch of Inteleca’s digital
cable TV services in the region.
VideoGuard
Express provides start-up digital pay TV operators
such as Inteleca with a fully featured packaged solution that
features proven NDS security, currently protecting content in
more than 72 million set top boxes (STB) worldwide. The solution
also includes powerful NDS MediaHighway
middleware, now active
in over 57.3 million STBs. With VideoGuard Express already deployed
with clients such as Serbia Broadband, Lumiere TV in Cyprus and
Smallworld Media in the UK, the addition of Inteleca further
strengthens NDS’ track record amongst emergent digital
TV broadcasters.
Inteleca currently offers analog cable TV, internet, and telephony
services over a fibre optic network to residential and business
communities in Barnaul, Altai, in Russia, and will enhance its
offerings to include digital TV services. NDS will act as the
prime technical integrator, providing conditional access, middleware,
and a virtual-machine based Electronic Program Guide (EPG). Subsequent
to the launch in Barnaul, Inteleca plans to develop and deploy
services in over six other cities throughout Siberia.
As part of this expansion, Inteleca is also considering plans
to offer IPTV services in the region. The head-end for the digital
cable TV network will be located in Barnaul with Inteleca planning
to create a regional network based on the system provided by
NDS.
Commenting on the announcement, Jeremy Maddocks, NDS Business
Development Director for Central and Eastern Europe, said, “We
are very pleased to be working with Inteleca on their exciting
plans for launching digital TV and IPTV services in Siberia.
Although sparsely populated, Siberia covers an area about five
times the size of the USA and we are proud to be part of the
team that will open up this enormous market to new media services.”
J. Clifford Gauntlett, Chairman of Inteleca, remarked: “In
establishing a world class triple play operator, with content
and service levels on par with the leading international providers,
we decided it was necessary to have a world class partner. NDS
is a proven leader in the provision of technology that can secure and enable television
content over a variety of networks and geographies to a large
subscriber base.”
Konstantin Mirny, General Director, “OOO” Inteleca
added: ”Barnaul is both a city of traditions and a city
of the future. The deployment of the VideoGuard Express solution
perfectly suits our needs for the set-up and launch of our services
in Siberia. We see this as a long term relationship and we look
forward to working with NDS to evolve our services to serve our
customers well into the future.”
About Inteleca
OOO Inteleca is a privately held holding company which owns
and operates a fibre optic network located in Barnaul, Russia.
Under the Inteleca brand, OOO Inteleca and its subsidiaries offer
data, voice, and cable TV services over fibre to both businesses
and residential customers. It is the largest privately owned
company offering such services on its own network in the region.
(www.inteleca.ru)
About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News
Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and
services to digital pay-television platform operators and content
providers. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS.
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| Director, Public Relations |
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| Inteleca |
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| Natasha Viyunova, Public Relations |
T: +7 3852 229 306 (Russian) |
| Jan Davies, Public Relations |
T: +7 495 699-6902 (English) |
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