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Irdeto Achieves Significant Growth In Asia And Expands Its Media Solutions Offerings
Irdeto celebrates 40 years
NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 21, 2009 /Television PR News/ -- Company celebrates 40 years of innovation by expanding its media solutions offerings for the convergence era
Irdeto, a leading expert in content and business model protection solutions and services attained substantial market momentum in Asia over the past year. The company, who celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, continues to be an innovator in the digital media industry with some key milestones in the region and expansion of its media solutions portfolio.
A pioneer in the pay TV industry and global leader in conditional access (CA), Irdeto has rapidly expanded its portfolio over the past few years to provide additional capabilities such as digital rights management, business support systems, set-top box software solutions, software security and broadband media services to more than 500 premier customers worldwide, enabling them to protect and monetize digital content. This set of capabilities will deliver a converged network architecture that unifies CA and DRM content delivery and protection while extending the operators' span of control into the home network.
With more than 95 patents and patents pending, Irdeto is on the forefront of providing industry leading changes. During the past 40 years of operation, Irdeto delivered the very first DVB-CA system, the first IPTV deployment and the first Mobile TV CA solution.
In South East Asia, Irdeto is firmly positioned as the leader in CA with 64 percent market share according to Media Partners Asia. The company has also seen strong growth in India and China with top-tier Pay TV operators. To support its expanded operation in Asia, Irdeto has opened four new offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Taiwan and India over the past two years.
As the media landscape evolves, Irdeto is focused on providing innovative solutions that meet the demands of our customers to provide consumers with rich home media and entertainment. Next-generation set-top boxes and advanced consumer electronics devices are integrating video content from multiple sources, such as broadcast TV, premium video-on-demand and IP-based services, and providing value-added capabilities, such as time-shifting, multi-room PVR and device-to-device distribution between personal computers, portable media players and other mobile devices.
"Celebrating our 40 year anniversary this year is a big milestone for Irdeto which has grown from our roots as a pioneer in pay TV technology to become a global player in the digital media arena," stated Graham Kill, CEO of Irdeto. "We owe our success to being able to adapt to, and anticipate, the ever evolving demands of our industry and of course to our valued partnerships with customers and core vendors and/partners worldwide."
Founded in 1969, Irdeto employs over 900 people in 25 offices across the globe. The company is a subsidiary of multi-national media group, Naspers (JSE: NPN) with generates over $2 billion in annual revenue from pay TV, Internet, instant-messaging, technology and publishing businesses. Irdeto solutions currently enable simple to advanced business models on more than one billion devices and applications.
Irdeto empowers companies to protect and monetize their digital assets and maximize return on content with innovative and reliable software technologies, end-to-end solutions and services. The company's products include conditional access, digital rights management, business support systems, set-top box software solutions. Through group company Cloakware, it provides software and datacenter security solutions, while Entriq delivers content management and distribution solutions and services. More than 500 customers worldwide trust Irdeto to secure and enable the delivery of their valuable content across digital broadcast, IP, mobile, enterprise and government networks. Irdeto solutions currently enable simple to advanced business models on more than one billion devices and applications.
Founded in 1969, Irdeto employs over 900 people in 25offices across the globe, including the dual corporate headquarters in Amsterdam and Beijing. The company is a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (JSE: NPN), which includes a wide range of pay TV, Internet, instant-messaging, technology and publishing businesses. For more information, please visit www.irdeto.com.
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