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                 Built for your expanding
                                       pay-TV platform

Adding over-the-top (OTT) to your existing pay-TV service?

It is important to choose a DRM partner that will work together with you and in line with your business objectives.

A partner that can anticipate security breaches before they affect your business. A partner that can help you harness the potential of new distribution channels on connected media devices and convert them into new revenue streams.

VideoGuard Connect™ from NDS is the only DRM system built specifically for pay-TV platforms. It gives you the security and business tools you need to capitalize on OTT and home networking service opportunities.

 

You can deliver linear channels and VOD over the open internet, extending your TV services to the most popular media devices available including:

  • PC/Mac
  • iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
  • Android mobile and tablet devices
  • Games consoles
  • IP-STBs
  • Connected TVs.

Your subscribers will enjoy the high-quality, reliable viewing experience that they have come to expect from their trusted pay-TV service operator.



Better
      for your business

VideoGuard Connect fully meets all the requirements for pay-TV systems.

It proactively protects your service and content from ingest, through delivery and consumption ensuring that you can extend a high-quality viewing experience to a wide range of media devices.

New revenue generating opportunities

VideoGuard Connect opens up new opportunities that add value to your platform and generate revenue:

  • Live TV with fast channel change, using adaptive bit-rate technology
  • VOD from web-based content catalogs using either adaptive streaming or progressive download
  • Buy once and view on any device
  • "Sync & Go" content downloads for later offline viewing
  • Sharing content between devices in the home network
  • Advertising on multiple devices

 


                                              Proactive                                                             security

To acquire the very best content, your pay-TV business needs to earn the trust of movie studios and other content owners.

They need to be certain that you have robust and persistent DRM running throughout your multi-device offering.

An active security framework

VideoGuard Connect employs a moving target approach to security. Unlike other DRM systems that react to security threats, VideoGuard Connect proactively modifies critical DRM components ensuring that any threats from hackers are neutralized before they affect your service.

Each device has unique protection making it extremely difficult to circumvent, duplicate or break the security system.


Ongoing protection for your business

With VideoGuard Connect, your platform gets more than just DRM technology. It enjoys the backing of NDS, a company with no agenda other than to protect and grow your pay-TV business. A company with a tradition of excellence for content protection.

At NDS, we take responsibility for the integrity and robustness of your OTT service and content from day one, and we never stop.

Audited and approved by studios

VideoGuard Connect has been audited by Telecordia, an independent, studio-approved auditor. It received exceptionally high ratings in all audited categories.

In addition, NDS technology has been approved by all the prominent studios, including Disney, Fox, HBO, NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros.


Comprehensive
      business management

 

 

Flexible domain and device management

Using VideoGuard Connect's domain management features, your subscribers can watch their content on a wide variety of devices while you maintain control of all the devices and services running on your platform.

System-wide procedures, such as service and device counting policies, ensure that you can package and manage your services flexibly and optimally.

Supports multi-DRM

Some devices are closed and only support a single DRM. For these platforms, VideoGuard Connect supports third-party DRM hosting with integrated user and device authentication services. This gives operators full control over content distribution and consumption. It also supports standard link protection protocols, such as DTCP-IP.

 


VideoGuard Connect uses open industry protocols such as those defined by DLNA and UPnP to ensure that all devices on your users' home networks can easily interoperate.

Delivers a high-quality experience everywhere

Delivering premium content over an unmanaged network requires smart technologies to ensure that users enjoy the best possible playback experience on all devices.

NDS adaptive streaming, for example, dynamically and periodically regulates the requested content bit-rate, based on actual networking performance. It optimizes video playback by matching video quality to the user's available bandwidth. That way, your subscribers enjoy a consistent and high-quality video stream, wherever they are.

            VideoGuard Connect bridges the
            technology, service and                   commercial requirements of your             pay-TV operation


Easily integrates
   into your TV
           ecosystem

Looking to create a new OTT "green field" network or expand your existing pay-TV system onto more devices?

VideoGuard Connect uses open and fully documented interfaces conveniently packaged into a client SDK (software development kit) so it easily integrates with third-party applications and web browsers.

Part of the NDS Unified Headend, VideoGuard Connect seamlessly integrates with your backend systems to ensure you get your service to market swiftly and within budget.

NDS has extensive experience in working with leading third-party component manufacturers so we can integrate and implement VideoGuard Connect as part of your OTT ecosystem.

Following are just some of the OTT specialists with whom we have forged successful partnerships:

Encoder vendors: Digital Rapid, Elemental, Envivio, Harmonic, Inlet and RGB

CDN (content delivery networks): Akami, Castup, Level 3 and Limelight

Content management systems: VideoGuard Connect integrates with any third-party content management system

Chipset partners: Amlogic, Broadcom, MStar, Qualcomm, ST Microsystems and Trident. NDS is also cooperating with ARM on VideoGuard Connect implementations for ARM based chipsets supporting TrustZone® technology

Adaptive bitrate streaming: Apple HLS and NDS ABR

Application developers: NDS will work with any third-party application developer of your choice

SMS/billing systems: Amdocs, CRM.com, MGt and MagnaQuest

 

End-to-end experts

Backed by professionals the world over, NDS brings together design, systems adaptation and integration, testing, deployment and comprehensive post delivery support into one package that protects the integrity of your entire content distribution system.

 

 

 


Partners
       in your success

Unlike other DRM technology providers, NDS is a committed security partner with no agenda to compete with its customers.

Our sole aim is to work with pay-TV operators in building and growing their businesses. That is why NDS Technology is deployed by the world's leading pay-TV platforms.

As you look to extend your pay-TV services to more connected devices, make VideoGuard Connect from NDS part of your evolving TV strategy.

To learn more about how NDS VideoGuard Connect™ can turn your pay-TV business into a multi-device platform, visit the Web page or contact us.










NDS customers worldwide