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Axinom provides PlayReady licensing services with unparalleled quality. Robustness, high availability, performance, scalability, and ease of integration are the key areas where Axinom DRM Service excels.
Professional SLAs cover 24/7/365 support and guaranteed availability of 99.999%.
Integrating with Axinom DRM Service is a matter of hours, not months, thanks to a full-featured, easily integrated service API.
Beyond its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Axinom provides DRM services tailored for on-board entertainment scenarios, even on vessels without internet connection.
Today, Axinom DRM is widely deployed across airlines, ship, train, and bus operators.
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BuyDRM™ is a leading global provider of Content Security Services for the entertainment, education, enterprise, and hospitality industries. As an OVHcloud company, BuyDRM’s KeyOS content security platform powers many of the largest brands in media and technology.
With decades of market-leading experience implementing commercial content security solutions and media technologies, BuyDRM has amassed substantial success stories for many of today’s largest brands such as ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), AMPAS (The Academy), Crackle Plus, Daily Rounds, Deluxe Digital, EPIX, FuboTV, Funimation, Rakuten Viki, Redbox, Samsung, SBS Belgium, Sinclair Digital, TubiTV and Zee5.
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castLabs is an end-to-end content protection solutions provider for OTT markets worldwide: from content processing, to secure players, to DRM, and consulting.
The company provides a leading multi-DRM and access control service, DRMtoday, with billions of PlayReady licenses delivered. DRMtoday simplifies secure playback across all screens through a single integration as well as including multi-tenancy, concurrent stream limiting, geoblocking, and dashboard reporting.
The company also provides the feature-rich range of PRESTOplay SDKs to easily build DRM-secured player apps across Windows/Mac, browsers, mobiles, tablets, TVs, STBs, and game consoles including Xbox.
castLabs additionally supplies their fast Video Toolkit cloud processing service to encode/package content into DRM-protected streaming formats.
castLabs head office is located in Berlin Germany with additional offices in Los Angeles.
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Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable, brings innovations from Comcast to the advertiser, content provider, global operator, and technology industries — providing solutions to our collective challenges and helping to forge a shared vision for the future. Built on Comcast’s know-how, proven facilities, platforms, and infrastructure, Comcast Technology Solutions offers more than 20 years of real-world broadcast and digital experience. We deliver technology beyond expectations to help customers develop new business models and transform the customer experience. For more information, visit www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com.
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CSG Ascendon™ is a cloud-based digital services platform that enables communication service providers, content producers and retailers to quickly create, launch and monetize compelling offers of video, content, and data across users, channels and devices. This enterprise platform enables extensible monetization and rapid scale to capitalize on the expanding digital consumer appetite. CSG Ascendon orchestrates complex business processes –– including multi-channel sales, customer management, offer management, catalog management, order orchestration, service activation, revenue management and partner settlement – delivered via a nimble cloud-based infrastructure and backed by managed services, enabling providers to span the digital value chain with a single integrated solution. Our solution gives our customers all of the capabilities they require to operate a complete digital content business, including protection of their premium content. Ascendon is integrated with Microsoft PlayReady as a trusted DRM technology for premium content protection on connected devices.
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Digisoft.tv's Iris Platform product set enables the managed delivery of content to set-top box, mobile and PC based clients. Iris Server provides entitlement workflow mediation, using PlayReady to support the secure delivery of OTT TVOD and SVOD content to a wide variety of consumer devices.
Digisoft also provides Playmigo, a media casting platform, which supports content protection on multiple consumer devices using Playready.
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Software-defined video solutions from Elemental enable content owners, broadcasters, and pay providers to securely deliver live and on-demand video content via turnkey, cloud-based, and virtualized deployment models. Microsoft PlayReady is integrated into all Elemental products, including: • Elemental Live, for real-time encoding • Elemental Server, for file-based transcoding • Elemental Delta, for just-in-time packaging, just-in-time DRM, live-to VOD applications, and dynamic ad insertion • Elemental Stream, for real-time and offline content packaging • Elemental Cloud, for video processing and delivery powered by the scale and elasticity of the cloud. Elemental solutions include support for Microsoft's standard key provider interface and multiple 3rd party key servers.
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EZDRM is the original specialist in Digital Rights Management as a Service (DRMaaS), offering a straightforward, one stop solution for protecting and monetizing your video content. The EZDRM solution makes it easy to support live, on-demand, downloadable and offline video services and offers complete flexibility in business model support. EZDRM has been at the forefront of streaming video service evolution for over 15 years, and now with its Universal DRM solution has a leading position in the delivery of multi-DRM CENC support for MPEG-DASH, eliminating proprietary integration and format concerns. EZDRM, with its team of DRM experts, offers zero drama video security that integrates seamlessly with your delivery system and scales with your business.
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Fraunhofer FOKUS is a PlayReady SI providing consultancy and R&D in the field of Internet delivered protected media. The Fraunhofer FOKUS' Competence Center "Future Applications and Media" (FAME) hosts all the technical know-how needed for the realization of interactive media applications: application development, streaming technologies, as well as service personalization. Moreover, Fraunhofer FOKUS contributes to standardization activities such as HbbTV, W3C, DASH-IF, and ETSI, supports customers developing interoperable solutions and products, evaluates them and engineers proof of concepts and early prototypes.
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Harmonic's VOS media processing solution & ProMedia multiscreen applications support Microsoft PlayReady as part of the industry's most complete offering for live and file-based transcoding, packaging and origin for first and second screens. VOS and ProMedia solutions accommodate a wide variety of mobile and web protocols, including Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Apple HLS and MPEG-DASH, for a broad array of multiscreen applications, including live streaming, VOD, Time-Shift TV, ad insertion and blackout management. Through integration with partners such as Microsoft, we make it possible to deliver the compelling video experience today's viewers demand — on any device.
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IdeaNova provides Inplay DRM products and DRM integration services to its customers worldwide. Our Inplay products enable playback of PlayReady DRM content in disconnected mode. Our main industry vertical is the avionics industry. IdeaNova services enable our customers to encrypt and play PlayReady DRM content on the devices of their choice, fully integrated into their customized software.
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INISOFT is highly specialized in DRM protected media streaming and playback. We are a market leader in 4K DASH and Smooth Streaming, and our versatile INI Media player SDK ensures media playback on a large spectrum of devices including Smart TVs, Chromecast, Android, iOS, PC and Mac.
INI Media Player SDK is fully integrated with PlayReady that customers can deliver their premium contents without hassle.
With our extensive experience and expertise in the development of media streaming and protection, we can provide solutions to our customers to solve their problems and help them to focus on their core business.
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INSIDE Secure offers studios approved OTT solutions to protect premium content. Our market leading and major studio-approved solutions allow the secure distribution of premium content including early window movies (up to UHD, Virtual Reality, 360°,…) on all over-the top-devices. This solution supports all major DRM schemes, watermarking, advanced playback functionalities, analytics, advertissement and is protected against hacking with the best software hardening solution on the market.
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InstaDIGITAL has been making it easy for companies to deliver video securely to web, mobile and TV for almost 10 years. Either hook into our instaDRM product, which provides our customers with all the features PlayReady protection has to offer, or use the whole platform to provide a full end to end video on demand and over the top platform.
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IOActive is a security test lab for evaluating PlayReady products incorporating hardware security, including SL3000. IOActive’s dedicated team of hardware security professionals can help companies get this work done quickly and within budget. All assessments are conducted at IOActive’s dedicated hardware lab, which is equipped with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Focused Ion Beam (FIB), confocal optical imaging equipment, and a variety of analytical tools.
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Irdeto protects digital platforms and assets for media and entertainment, gaming, connected transport, connected spaces and IoT connected industries. In the media and entertainment space, Irdeto helps connect owners and providers securely deliver media across all screens in and out of the home. Irdeto Rights is an OTT content protection solution that enables operators to manage multiple DRMs and business policies across a wide range of end-user devices. It supports Microsoft PlayReady as well as PlayReady Scalable for live streaming, allowing operators to meet licensing requirements for premium content and ensure the best user experience. Irdeto Rights is offered as a cloud-based service, and can also be deployed on the operator’s premise.
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MOBITV is the leading white-label, end-to-end streaming video solution in the market enabling Pay TV operators to rapidly launch a branded, thoroughly compliant, fully-featured app-based Pay TV service. With the explosion of smart TVs and connected devices like Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV, MOBITV has been able to extend its platform to provide a true multi-screen experience to replace outdated set-top box solutions. Operators now have a way to offer a full cable line-up with an on-demand catalog, live TV, catch-up TV, network DVR and recommendations available on nearly every device. MOBITV powers a fully IP-based approach and, in combination with the almost two decades of MOBITV’s expertise in IP video delivery, operators can finally make the switch to a truly future-proof TV solution. PlayReady is a critical part of the MobiTV solution as it enables secure delivery to many devices.
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The NAGRA Security Services Platform (SSP) is a multi-network, multi-device, multi-tenant solution for managing both NAGRA conditional access clients as well as NAGRA and third-party DRM schemes (including Microsoft PlayReady), enabling modern service providers to drive efficiency and reduce costs by centralizing all of their content protection within a single system. The NAGRA SSP is used by some of the world’s largest, multi-national telcos and pay-TV companies, and its modular architecture allows companies to use it for a wide variety of different use cases and across any network to support their quickly evolving businesses. The NAGRA SSP can be implemented on customer premises or via public, hybrid or private cloud, as well as being delivered as a managed service.
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NeuLion is a global leader specializing in digital video broadcasting, distribution and monetization of live and on-demand sports and entertainment content to any connected device. The NeuLion Digital Platform simplifies the digital video workflow and provides all the tools you need to get your content into consumers hands quickly and easily. The NeuLion Digital Platform helps broadcasters, operators, sports rights holders and media companies build, deliver and grow their digital businesses with stunning video and personalized, interactive experiences across any screen. As an Intermediate, Final and Master PlayReady licensee, NeuLion provides end-to-end support for PlayReady DRM including content packaging and delivery, license management, and can securely deliver Subscription, PPV, SVOD, EST and TVOD content to any connected devices.
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Nextscape is an OTT solution provider from Japan, highly experienced in providing solutions for content and/or service providers ranging from commercial and entertainment service providers to educational institutions, and telecommunication enterprises. Nextscape's solutions cover every technology needed to distribute media (encoding, packaging, encrypting, live streaming, download, MPEG-DASH, HLS, HEVC 4K, etc), and supports wide range of devices (smartphones, computers, smart TVs, etc). Their solutions are widely used in Japan offering high quality experiences to over 5 million users. For customers based in Japan who seeks for multi-DRM solutions, they also provide a SaaS multi-DRM solution.
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Riscure is a global security evaluation lab and the leading developer of security tools. It is accredited to evaluate PlayReady products incorporating hardware security, including SL3000. Riscure can offer you PlayReady testing service in a timely and cost efficient manner, in combination with other needs you may have, such as CAS vendor certification (Conax, Irdeto, Nagra, Verimatrix and Viaccess-Orca) and GlobalPlatform TEE certification. We offer a wide range of services for Content Protection industry with many years of experience.
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Tatung Technology Inc. (TTI) is a leading manufacture in providing complete end-to-end solution for every needs, from hardware to software. TTI integrated the latest PlayReady technology to provide safety and security for video contents.
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Viaccess-Orca is a leading global solutions provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions for a personalized TV experience. The company offers an extensive range of innovative, proven, and best-of-breed solutions for content delivery, protection, discovery, and monetization. With over 20 years of industry leadership, Viaccess-Orca helps content providers and TV operators shape a smarter and safer TV and OTT experience.
Axinom provides PlayReady licensing services with unparalleled quality. Robustness, high availability, performance, scalability, and ease of integration are the key areas where Axinom DRM Service excels.
Professional SLAs cover 24/7/365 support and guaranteed availability of 99.999%.
Integrating with Axinom DRM Service is a matter of hours, not months, thanks to a full-featured, easily integrated service API.
Beyond its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Axinom provides DRM services tailored for on-board entertainment scenarios, even on vessels without internet connection.
Today, Axinom DRM is widely deployed across airlines, ship, train, and bus operators.
BuyDRM™ is a leading global provider of Content Security Services for the entertainment, education, enterprise, and hospitality industries. As an OVHcloud company, BuyDRM’s KeyOS content security platform powers many of the largest brands in media and technology.
With decades of market-leading experience implementing commercial content security solutions and media technologies, BuyDRM has amassed substantial success stories for many of today’s largest brands such as ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), AMPAS (The Academy), Crackle Plus, Daily Rounds, Deluxe Digital, EPIX, FuboTV, Funimation, Rakuten Viki, Redbox, Samsung, SBS Belgium, Sinclair Digital, TubiTV and Zee5.
castLabs is an end-to-end content protection solutions provider for OTT markets worldwide: from content processing, to secure players, to DRM, and consulting.
The company provides a leading multi-DRM and access control service, DRMtoday, with billions of PlayReady licenses delivered. DRMtoday simplifies secure playback across all screens through a single integration as well as including multi-tenancy, concurrent stream limiting, geoblocking, and dashboard reporting.
The company also provides the feature-rich range of PRESTOplay SDKs to easily build DRM-secured player apps across Windows/Mac, browsers, mobiles, tablets, TVs, STBs, and game consoles including Xbox.
castLabs additionally supplies their fast Video Toolkit cloud processing service to encode/package content into DRM-protected streaming formats.
castLabs head office is located in Berlin Germany with additional offices in Los Angeles.
Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable, brings innovations from Comcast to the advertiser, content provider, global operator, and technology industries — providing solutions to our collective challenges and helping to forge a shared vision for the future. Built on Comcast’s know-how, proven facilities, platforms, and infrastructure, Comcast Technology Solutions offers more than 20 years of real-world broadcast and digital experience. We deliver technology beyond expectations to help customers develop new business models and transform the customer experience. For more information, visit www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com.
CSG Ascendon™ is a cloud-based digital services platform that enables communication service providers, content producers and retailers to quickly create, launch and monetize compelling offers of video, content, and data across users, channels and devices. This enterprise platform enables extensible monetization and rapid scale to capitalize on the expanding digital consumer appetite. CSG Ascendon orchestrates complex business processes –– including multi-channel sales, customer management, offer management, catalog management, order orchestration, service activation, revenue management and partner settlement – delivered via a nimble cloud-based infrastructure and backed by managed services, enabling providers to span the digital value chain with a single integrated solution. Our solution gives our customers all of the capabilities they require to operate a complete digital content business, including protection of their premium content. Ascendon is integrated with Microsoft PlayReady as a trusted DRM technology for premium content protection on connected devices.
Digisoft.tv's Iris Platform product set enables the managed delivery of content to set-top box, mobile and PC based clients. Iris Server provides entitlement workflow mediation, using PlayReady to support the secure delivery of OTT TVOD and SVOD content to a wide variety of consumer devices.
Digisoft also provides Playmigo, a media casting platform, which supports content protection on multiple consumer devices using Playready.
Software-defined video solutions from Elemental enable content owners, broadcasters, and pay providers to securely deliver live and on-demand video content via turnkey, cloud-based, and virtualized deployment models. Microsoft PlayReady is integrated into all Elemental products, including: • Elemental Live, for real-time encoding • Elemental Server, for file-based transcoding • Elemental Delta, for just-in-time packaging, just-in-time DRM, live-to VOD applications, and dynamic ad insertion • Elemental Stream, for real-time and offline content packaging • Elemental Cloud, for video processing and delivery powered by the scale and elasticity of the cloud. Elemental solutions include support for Microsoft's standard key provider interface and multiple 3rd party key servers.
EZDRM is the original specialist in Digital Rights Management as a Service (DRMaaS), offering a straightforward, one stop solution for protecting and monetizing your video content. The EZDRM solution makes it easy to support live, on-demand, downloadable and offline video services and offers complete flexibility in business model support. EZDRM has been at the forefront of streaming video service evolution for over 15 years, and now with its Universal DRM solution has a leading position in the delivery of multi-DRM CENC support for MPEG-DASH, eliminating proprietary integration and format concerns. EZDRM, with its team of DRM experts, offers zero drama video security that integrates seamlessly with your delivery system and scales with your business.
Fraunhofer FOKUS is a PlayReady SI providing consultancy and R&D in the field of Internet delivered protected media. The Fraunhofer FOKUS' Competence Center "Future Applications and Media" (FAME) hosts all the technical know-how needed for the realization of interactive media applications: application development, streaming technologies, as well as service personalization. Moreover, Fraunhofer FOKUS contributes to standardization activities such as HbbTV, W3C, DASH-IF, and ETSI, supports customers developing interoperable solutions and products, evaluates them and engineers proof of concepts and early prototypes.
Harmonic's VOS media processing solution & ProMedia multiscreen applications support Microsoft PlayReady as part of the industry's most complete offering for live and file-based transcoding, packaging and origin for first and second screens. VOS and ProMedia solutions accommodate a wide variety of mobile and web protocols, including Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Apple HLS and MPEG-DASH, for a broad array of multiscreen applications, including live streaming, VOD, Time-Shift TV, ad insertion and blackout management. Through integration with partners such as Microsoft, we make it possible to deliver the compelling video experience today's viewers demand — on any device.
IdeaNova provides Inplay DRM products and DRM integration services to its customers worldwide. Our Inplay products enable playback of PlayReady DRM content in disconnected mode. Our main industry vertical is the avionics industry. IdeaNova services enable our customers to encrypt and play PlayReady DRM content on the devices of their choice, fully integrated into their customized software.
INISOFT is highly specialized in DRM protected media streaming and playback. We are a market leader in 4K DASH and Smooth Streaming, and our versatile INI Media player SDK ensures media playback on a large spectrum of devices including Smart TVs, Chromecast, Android, iOS, PC and Mac.
INI Media Player SDK is fully integrated with PlayReady that customers can deliver their premium contents without hassle.
With our extensive experience and expertise in the development of media streaming and protection, we can provide solutions to our customers to solve their problems and help them to focus on their core business.
INSIDE Secure offers studios approved OTT solutions to protect premium content. Our market leading and major studio-approved solutions allow the secure distribution of premium content including early window movies (up to UHD, Virtual Reality, 360°,…) on all over-the top-devices. This solution supports all major DRM schemes, watermarking, advanced playback functionalities, analytics, advertissement and is protected against hacking with the best software hardening solution on the market.
InstaDIGITAL has been making it easy for companies to deliver video securely to web, mobile and TV for almost 10 years. Either hook into our instaDRM product, which provides our customers with all the features PlayReady protection has to offer, or use the whole platform to provide a full end to end video on demand and over the top platform.
IOActive is a security test lab for evaluating PlayReady products incorporating hardware security, including SL3000. IOActive’s dedicated team of hardware security professionals can help companies get this work done quickly and within budget. All assessments are conducted at IOActive’s dedicated hardware lab, which is equipped with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Focused Ion Beam (FIB), confocal optical imaging equipment, and a variety of analytical tools.
Irdeto protects digital platforms and assets for media and entertainment, gaming, connected transport, connected spaces and IoT connected industries. In the media and entertainment space, Irdeto helps connect owners and providers securely deliver media across all screens in and out of the home. Irdeto Rights is an OTT content protection solution that enables operators to manage multiple DRMs and business policies across a wide range of end-user devices. It supports Microsoft PlayReady as well as PlayReady Scalable for live streaming, allowing operators to meet licensing requirements for premium content and ensure the best user experience. Irdeto Rights is offered as a cloud-based service, and can also be deployed on the operator’s premise.
MOBITV is the leading white-label, end-to-end streaming video solution in the market enabling Pay TV operators to rapidly launch a branded, thoroughly compliant, fully-featured app-based Pay TV service. With the explosion of smart TVs and connected devices like Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV, MOBITV has been able to extend its platform to provide a true multi-screen experience to replace outdated set-top box solutions. Operators now have a way to offer a full cable line-up with an on-demand catalog, live TV, catch-up TV, network DVR and recommendations available on nearly every device. MOBITV powers a fully IP-based approach and, in combination with the almost two decades of MOBITV’s expertise in IP video delivery, operators can finally make the switch to a truly future-proof TV solution. PlayReady is a critical part of the MobiTV solution as it enables secure delivery to many devices.
The NAGRA Security Services Platform (SSP) is a multi-network, multi-device, multi-tenant solution for managing both NAGRA conditional access clients as well as NAGRA and third-party DRM schemes (including Microsoft PlayReady), enabling modern service providers to drive efficiency and reduce costs by centralizing all of their content protection within a single system. The NAGRA SSP is used by some of the world’s largest, multi-national telcos and pay-TV companies, and its modular architecture allows companies to use it for a wide variety of different use cases and across any network to support their quickly evolving businesses. The NAGRA SSP can be implemented on customer premises or via public, hybrid or private cloud, as well as being delivered as a managed service.
NeuLion is a global leader specializing in digital video broadcasting, distribution and monetization of live and on-demand sports and entertainment content to any connected device. The NeuLion Digital Platform simplifies the digital video workflow and provides all the tools you need to get your content into consumers hands quickly and easily. The NeuLion Digital Platform helps broadcasters, operators, sports rights holders and media companies build, deliver and grow their digital businesses with stunning video and personalized, interactive experiences across any screen. As an Intermediate, Final and Master PlayReady licensee, NeuLion provides end-to-end support for PlayReady DRM including content packaging and delivery, license management, and can securely deliver Subscription, PPV, SVOD, EST and TVOD content to any connected devices.
Nextscape is an OTT solution provider from Japan, highly experienced in providing solutions for content and/or service providers ranging from commercial and entertainment service providers to educational institutions, and telecommunication enterprises. Nextscape's solutions cover every technology needed to distribute media (encoding, packaging, encrypting, live streaming, download, MPEG-DASH, HLS, HEVC 4K, etc), and supports wide range of devices (smartphones, computers, smart TVs, etc). Their solutions are widely used in Japan offering high quality experiences to over 5 million users. For customers based in Japan who seeks for multi-DRM solutions, they also provide a SaaS multi-DRM solution.
Riscure is a global security evaluation lab and the leading developer of security tools. It is accredited to evaluate PlayReady products incorporating hardware security, including SL3000. Riscure can offer you PlayReady testing service in a timely and cost efficient manner, in combination with other needs you may have, such as CAS vendor certification (Conax, Irdeto, Nagra, Verimatrix and Viaccess-Orca) and GlobalPlatform TEE certification. We offer a wide range of services for Content Protection industry with many years of experience.
Tatung Technology Inc. (TTI) is a leading manufacture in providing complete end-to-end solution for every needs, from hardware to software. TTI integrated the latest PlayReady technology to provide safety and security for video contents.
Viaccess-Orca is a leading global solutions provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions for a personalized TV experience. The company offers an extensive range of innovative, proven, and best-of-breed solutions for content delivery, protection, discovery, and monetization. With over 20 years of industry leadership, Viaccess-Orca helps content providers and TV operators shape a smarter and safer TV and OTT experience.
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