WHAT: Technology Demonstrations:
VCAS Secures the World of Wholesale/Retail IPTV Distribution VCAS for IPTV provides a content security solution that supports the full spectrum of the emerging IPTV wholesale/retail business over satellite, fiber and other distribution network architectures. Come see why Avail Media, Falcon Communications and other IPTV wholesalers have chosen VCAS for their end-to-end content security solution. Key components of the solution include:

-- Verimatrix Remote Stream Manager that supports tiered distribution of encrypted content and rights management keys
-- Verimatrix Retailer Entitlement Manager enables secured stream by stream entitlement control across networks.
-- Verimatrix MultiCAS/IP server that integrates operation of VCAS with high-performance stream multiplexer/scrambler equipment from Adtec, TANDBERG, Thomson, Scientific Atlanta and others.

Verimatrix announces that it has raised an additional $5 million of capital to underpin a rapid growth in customer engagements and support the company's penetration into hybrid, cable and mobile applications. The additional backing comes at the same time the company has again been tapped as the global market leader in content security. TelecomView's recently released report affirms the company's global number one position in Opportunities in TelcoTV: Forecast & Market Shares - 2006 to 2012.

Verimatrix announces that it is providing the security solution for the world’s first fully integrated IPTV triple-play deployment in Qatar. This new service from Qtel offers voice, broadband Internet and MPEG4-AVC encoded IPTV over its upgraded infrastructure to subscribers across the state of Qatar. Verimatrix’s Video Content Authority System will protect MPEG4-AVC data streams through advanced encryption to prevent unauthorized access or piracy and to provide premium content suppliers with confidence that their revenue streams are secure.

Widevine has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Verimatrix for unspecified damages. The lawsuit comes following attempts by Widevine to openly license its intellectual property to Verimatrix. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

In general, Widevine’s 7,165,175 patent describes and claims methods and systems for selectively encrypting different portions of data sent over a network. Specifically, Verimatrix’s content security solutions, such as the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS), infringe on Widevine’s Apparatus, System and Method for Selectively Encrypting Different Portions of Data Sent Over A Network patent number 7,165,175. Verimatrix’s VCAS solutions—which have been sold throughout the world—practice Widevine’s selective encryption patent.

UTStarcom has successfully completed a rigorous security audit of its IPTV DRM System. The security audit was commissioned by UTStarcom in June 2006 and completed in April 2007 by the premier security-engineering firm in the country Merdan Group. According to audit results, the robustness of UTStarcom's digital rights management solution is among the highest that Merdan Group has audited. The results indicated that all areas were robust at the "Criminal Enterprise Level," the highest rating, with the exception of one area involving the Set Top Box installation that was rated at the second highest rating of "University Challenge Level."

Widevine has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Verimatrix and NDS claimed the second and third spots in the company’s most recent evaluation of worldwide IPTV digital rights management vendors.

The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of vendors’ positions in specific markets. For this Vendor Matrix, 16 different criteria were divided into two main segments: Innovation and Implementation. Each has been weighted to give a total score out of 100.

Verimatrix announces that Star Telephone Membership Cooperative has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System on its IPTV network. Chosen in the later stages of the network build out, Verimatrix worked with Star Telephone to get VCAS up and running in one day. Verimatrix will be demonstrating VCAS for IPTV during NXTcomm at booth #1861.

Star Telephone is a leading independent operating company based in southeastern North Carolina providing triple play services with phone, broadband and cable television offerings. Star Telephone decided to add IPTV for a more cost-effective solution to its rural customers. IPTV will also allow them to offer Video-on-Demand and other advanced services not available with cable. They plan on officially launching the new IPTV service in Q4 this year.

Bell Aliant has chosen Widevine to protect its broadcast service, Aliant TV. Bell Aliant evaluated the entire market for content security and determined that Widevine's content security and proven deployments with other Canadian service providers -- SaskTel, Telus and MTS Allstream -- were key factors in meeting their business goals now and as their service expands. Widevine also was able to meet Aliant's aggressive time-to-market goals. Bell Aliant's conversations with the broadcasters yielded a high regard for Widevine's patented content security capabilities and fast renewability of client security on a wide range of consumer platforms.

Latens FCAS solution has been chosen by Douglas County Public Utility District to secure its IPTV roll-out. Douglas County PUD will deliver IPTV across its Douglas County Community Network (DCCN). The DCCN is a high speed broadband network delivering broadband at speeds of 100 Mbp/s to residential homes, businesses and government offices.

Latens FCAS solution has been deployed by Houston-based Optical Entertainment Network, the leading provider of IPTV and IP broadband services optimized for fiber-to-the-home and the first company to launch in a major market. Latens FCAS is protecting the revenues and content of the IPTV component of the FISION Triple Play Plus Services bundle, which is distributed to its customers through the FISION fiber to the home.

OEN has created FISION, the first and only integrated service for IPTV, Internet, Voice, Video-On-Demand and other broadband applications, designed specifically to take advantage of the benefits of FTTH technology. OEN has acquired programming agreements for IPTV distribution from top television networks in the US, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean channels with programming in 13 foreign languages.

Dailymotion has chosen Audible Magic, as their content identification services vendor. Audible Magic will be providing Dailymotion with solutions to identify and filter unauthorized copyrighted content, and enable new digital business models for Dailymotion, utilizing Audible Magic's content identification and digital fingerprinting technology. The copyright fingerprinting and filtering technology will be used globally across Dailymotion's 6 localized sites and in all 13 language versions.

The implementation of Audible Magic will allow Dailymotion to detect unauthorized copyrighted content and differentiate it from legitimate consumer and media industry content on Dailymotion. Audible Magic enables the automatic fingerprinting of content as it is uploaded and compares it to a database of fingerprints provided by copyright owners. If the match is a positive, content is then removed and, if an agreement with owners is in place, replaced with the original copyright material.

Widevine Technologies announced support for the Adobe Flash video format. Its multi-format copy protection now includes the protection of Macromedia Flash video — the most ubiquitous video format in use today, with approximately 750 million downloads. Widevine Cypher is currently used by three major TV networks and leading video retailers for Internet video delivery to PCs, Macs, portable media players and other devices.

In contrast to traditional DRM technologies — such as Apple’s FairPlay and Microsoft’s Windows Media DRM, which restrict content purchase and usage to specific devices, video formats and online services — Widevine opens DRM interoperability to all platforms, networks and video devices. This Switzerland of DRM approach enables total consumer flexibility.

Thomson will be unveiling its NexGuard forensic marking solution for set-top boxes at CEBIT 2007 and NAB2007. A streamlined "open architecture" solution, the NexGuard video watermarking technology will work with standard and next generation compression codecs: MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and VC-1.

NexGuard for STBs has been integrated into the STx7100 family of System-on- Chips (SoC), manufactured by semiconductor supplier STMicroelectronics. It will be available to all STB companies, conditional access system (CAS) vendors, and Video-on-Demand (VOD) and push-VOD operators, summer 2007.

ON Telecoms is currently rolling out its triple play services, which includes the first IPTV service in Greece. In addition to using Bitband for on-demand video delivery, ON Telecoms has selected Verimatrix to secure their IPTV service. ON Telecoms will utilize the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) to provide digital video content security throughout its digital video network.

At CSTB 2007 show, SecureMedia and Netris JSC announced that the companies have fully integrated SecureMedia's Encryptonite ONETM System CA/DRM software solution with Netris's IPSoft iVision IPTV Middleware.

Today the majority of IPTV deployments in Russia are using Netris' IPSoft iVision IPTV Middleware as a core element of their IPTV network solutions.