Viaccess, LG Electronics, Enensys, Expway and Sagem Orga Launch a New Offer to Secure the Broadcast TV Mobile Market

PARIS, September 22 Viaccess-Partnership


PARIS, September 22 /PRNewswire/ --


- The Five Companies Launch a Ready to Deploy End to End System Offer
Based on the OMA BCAST SmartCard Profile Standard (SCP) Handsets Encompassing
all Major Systems Required to Deploy a Mobile TV Services


Viaccess, a France Telecom company, leader in conditional access
announces a partnership with LG Electronics, Enensys, Expway and Sagem Orga
to secure access to mobile broadcast TV based on the OMA BCAST SmartCard
Profile Standard. This initiative launched by the partners aims at providing
customers and operators with a production ready end to end environment,
including handset from LG Electronics. The full scope system, available for
trials and production deployments, includes optimised capacities inherited
from each of the partners' exclusive features.


Viaccess's Conditional Access System dedicated to OMA Bcast Smartcard
profile standard provides enhanced security and renewability, and reduces SIM
management costs for Mobile Operators.With this new approach from Viaccess,
OMA BCAST standard will ensure compatibility with standard handsets while
bringing additional security features. OMA BCAST standard is today the most
performing standard for interoperable Mobile TV. Teaming with Enensys,
Expway, LG Electronics, and Sagem Orga, Viaccess has conducted early
interoperability schemes and the partnership announces a fully deployable
solution. Solution is performing and flexible enough to fit any redundancy
level as per operator's requirements, thus fitting scenarii from
experimentation chain up to commercial deployment of DVB-H.


Live implementation of the end to end solution was showcased at the last
IBC forum in Amsterdam (September 12th-16th) on viaccess booth (hall1, booth
A51).


"Our partnership with LG Electronics, Enensys, Expway and Sagem Orga
demonstrates our full interoperability with the Broadcast mobile TV market,"
explains Francois Moreau de Saint Martin, Viaccess CEO. "We believe the best
value we can propose to our clients is turning the best in class products
into immediately deployable solutions, and minimise integration costs. That's
why Viaccess is building an ecosystem with partners to ensure compatibility
of our solutions with the complete chain of broadcast equipment and
receivers."


Richard Lhermitte, Enensys VP Marketing said: "The integrated DVB-H BCAST
SCP system we've built, thanks to the close relationship with Viaccess,
Expway and LG, ensures operators get a fully interoperable turnkey solution.
This allows us to provide a cutting-edge solution while reducing integration
time and cost for our customers, and enabling them to build a secured
business plan."


Mr Nicolas Andrieu, VP Sales at Expway comments on this partnership: "The
integration of FastESG(TM) ESG OMA Edition with Viaccess SCP conditional
access system, Enensys Broadcast equipments along with LG handsets will
definitely foster the distribution of high-value content over mobile networks
worldwide. This strengthens our time-to-market leadership."


About Viaccess:


Viaccess S.A., delivers solutions for digital pay television and secured
content distribution. Its mission is the development, production and
marketing of Conditional Access and DRM-based systems for all types of
contents and services, for every kind of broadcast (satellite, cable,
terrestrial, MMDS) and broadband networks, fixed (DSL) and mobile. Viaccess
has been successfully deployed in 30 countries world-wide, on more than 80
digital platforms including multi-channel providers and digital content
distributors. Viaccess is European Leader for IPTV protection (MRG IPTV
Market Leader Report, March 2006 & September 2007). For more information :
http://www.viaccess.com


Press Contact :
Anthony Marechal T +33-1-44-45-65-35
E anthony.marechal@viaccess.com
http://www.viaccess.com



SOURCE  Viaccess