TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
Alcatel
As a world leader in the high speed access and optical transport market, Alcatel is a major player in the area of telecommunications and the Internet. With its expertise in communications systems, its line of products and services as well as its strong global presence, the Company can anticipate its customers' needs, from operators and Internet services providers to businesses and consumers.
Conax
Conax is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art and highly innovative solutions for smart card-based conditional access, security and payment solutions. Originated in 1986 as part of the R&D environment in Telenor, Norway's leading telecommunication company (OSEBX: TEL and Nasdaq: TELN), Conax has grown into an internationally oriented player, with a solid base of clients in around 30 countries.
Concurrent Computer Corporation
Concurrent is the market leader in broadband Video-On-Demand (VOD) solutions and is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time computer systems. Concurrent leverages its thirty-plus years of experience providing total solutions for customized, mission-critical applications. Its development, program management, and customer service departments benefit from years of experience providing system integration and working with customers on unique complicated applications.
Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic is a leading provider of innovative digital video, broadband fiber optic networking, and IP data delivery systems.
These systems permit cable, satellite, and telecommunication companies; digital broadcasters; and Internet service providers (ISPs) to efficiently expand their portfolio of advanced interactive and digital services. Using Harmonic's open standards-based solutions and services, which span the headend to the last mile and beyond, network operators can better serve their customers with new offerings in the areas of video-on-demand (VOD), low bit-rate digital video, telephony, remote and high-speed Internet access, as well as HDTV.
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software – any time, any place and on any device.
Nagravision
Nagravision is a market leader in the field of conditional access for digital TV and broadband Internet. Leading operators are equipped with its technology which ensures secure access to their services via more than 35 million decoders (analog and digital).
NDS Group plc
NDS is the leading supplier of open conditional access software and interactive systems for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and personal computers. The company also develops secure datacasting solutions for the distribution of data and multimedia. NDS systems enable network operators and content providers to profit from digital TV technology and its associated interactive services.
Pace has developed and manufactured set-top boxes incorporating the NDS developed News conditional access system for markets world wide. Pace and NDS are also jointly developing hard disk set-top box technologies providing functionality beyond that of the PVR (Personal Video Recorder).
OpenTV
OpenTV is a leading developer of television software for digital receivers. OpenTV has developed EPG and e-commerce software for gateways supplied by Pace to BskyB. Pace has also entered into an agreement to port OpenTV's industry leading broadband offering onto its advanced Di4000 cable home gateway.
Tandberg Television
A pioneer in video compression and systems for the delivery of TV and on-demand content, TANDBERG Television has emerged as the supplier of choice in the digital video market. Their solutions enable the digital broadcasting of audio, data and video across various networks including cable, satellite, terrestrial, IP and telecom and we are proud to be widely recognised as an innovator in digital broadcasting. From the first encoding products through to today’s class leading systems we have continued to push the boundaries forward. Whether it is products, systems, services or the control and monitoring of broadcast networks, we consistently meet or exceed our customer’s expectations.
Viaccess
Since the 1980s, Viaccess has been successfully meeting the challenge of securing digital content throughout the distribution chain for pay television service providers. Driven by the digital revolution and increasingly convergent technology during the 1990s, researchers helped set new international standards while working at the leading-edge to develop conditional access solutions for televisions and web-enabled PCs. Now, at the dawn of the 21st century, Viaccess R&D teams are already addressing the access needs of next-generation broadband infrastructures, markets and applications.
