Cisco Videoscape
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| legal form | Ltd. |
| Seat | Staines |
| Branch | Digital rights management |
| Website | www.nds.com |
Cisco Video Cape (formerly 'NDS Group') is a company to Cisco Systems owned and Digital Rights Management and Conditional Access distributes systems developed. In addition to CAS, NDS now covers all areas of digital TV solutions. These include in particular the Middleware MediaHighway, the IPTV solution Synamedia as well as interactive TV applications and mobile solutions.
It is based in Staines in the United Kingdom , and there is also an important research facility ( NDS Technologies Israel or NDS Tech for short ) in Jerusalem , Israel , which specializes in hardware and software for smart cards . Further development sites are in particular in Staines, UK and in Paris, France as the center of activities in the middleware area.
Products
- VideoGuard : is considered to be the most common DVB -CAS, so far uncompromised
- MediaHighway: Middleware solutions for digital STB and digital TV systems
- Synamedia: IPTV solutions for broadband infrastructures
- mVideoGuard: Digital Rights Management and CA system for mobile TV services
- XTV: Digital video recorder solutions for personalized television
- Value @ TV: Interactive TV applications and game applications such as system bets
- VideoCrypt: former CAS for analog television ; no longer in sales with the global switch to digital television
history
The company was founded in 1989 as News Datacom ( NDC ), later renamed News Digital Systems ( NDS ); Originally, CA systems were developed for sister company British Sky Broadcasting , which were later also sold to other providers.
competition
- Irdeto , Netherlands : Irdeto , Irdeto-2
- Kudelski Group , Switzerland : Nagravision