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VCAS Ultra from Verimatrix
erimatrix, the
development, while preparing for
specialist in securing
new premium service delivery for
and enhancing
UHD/4K content.
revenue for multi-network,
VCAS Ultra will fully empower
multi-screen digital TV
next-generation video operators by
services around the globe, has
providing unparalleled agility and
unveiled the profile of VCAS
efficiency within the pay-TV
Ultra, its next-generation
Video Content Authority
System (VCAS) architecture.
Capitalising on the clear trend
towards IP- and softwarebased technologies as the
foundation of future of payTV service delivery, VCAS
Ultra is designed to offer
operators a comprehensive
multi-network revenue
security approach today –
with the flexibility and
scalability
to meet
VCAS Ultra is designed to offer
their future
operators a comprehensive multigoals for
network revenue security approach
growth.
According
to Verimatrix, the marketplace has
infrastructure, including:
clearly established that cardless
Enhanced content security
security solutions based on
profiles to meet MovieLabs defined
software and IP technologies
ultra high definition (UHD) service
represent the new state-of-the-art
requirements – including fully
for pay-TV operator deployments.
integrated multi-network
VCAS Ultra will enable today’s
VideoMark watermarking
progressive pay-TV operators to
technology as well as TrustZone
take full advantage of this
support.
V
The global market for
conditional access (CA)
technology used in set-top
boxes is set to contract as
pay-TV services reach
saturation, according to
IHS Technology. Worldwide
market revenue for pay-TV
STB CA technology will
decline to $1.9 billion in
2018, down from a peak of
$2.2 billion in 2015.
“The CA market is largely
dependent on pay-TV
growth,” said Wajahat
Abbassi, senior analyst for
Connected Home at IHS.
“Shipments of STB CA clients
have grown strongly during
the past 10 years, from 44m
units in 2003 to 246m in
2013, driven by a decade of
rampant pay-TV growth.
However, this dependence
will make further growth for
CA challenging as the pay-TV
market begins to slow.”
The global STB contentprotection market contracted
to $2.1 billion in 2013,
down 4.5% from $2.2 billion
in 2012.
The decline came despite
a rise in shipments of STB
CA clients, such as smart
cards, whose shipments
grew 6% to
reach 246m
units in 2013.
The CA
market will
CA market
set to decline
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Flexible, physical or virtual
configurations to support cloud
system integrations – with server,
virtual or mixed deployment
modes, plus a rapidly growing base
of cloud-based integration
partners.
Streaming format evolution
with harmonised support for
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and
MPEG-DASH – supports multiformat, multi-DRM, HEVC and
multi-track audio with
harmonised security, as well as
standard hybrid network
approach such as HbbTV.
An enhanced architecture for
monitoring, operational and
subscriber intelligence to enable
actionable analytics – securely
gathers performance and system
management data and maintain
subscriber privacy.
VCAS Ultra will also feature
extended support for aggressive
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