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About Nagravision Nagravision (www.nagra.com) is a leading provider of open conditional access, advanced management tools and integrated solutions for cable, satellite, terrestrial and MMDS, FTTH and xDSL operators worldwide. These advanced solutions provide digital TV and content providers with the tools to operate and manage a range of interactive broadband services that include e-commerce, interactive program guides and multimedia-on-demand including VOD. Nagravision's digital and analog conditional access technologies are currently being utilized by leading operators worldwide representing over 25 million digital and analog subscribers. Nagravision is a division of the Switzerland-based Kudelski Group (SWX "KUD") and has offices in the United States, Singapore, Shanghai, Brazil, India, Spain, the UK and Switzerland. A world leader for conditional access systems, 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 40 million decoders (analog and digital). Digital is confirming its status as the preferred technology among television operators as it permits interactive applications and guarantees a higher operating performance as well as unequaled image quality. Additionally, the explosion in interactive services and the convergence of television and Internet is accelerating the switch to digital while increasing the demands made by operators. As they broaden their offering substantially, they expect their access control supplier to deliver a technological performance matching their needs
NagraStar is a joint-venture between EchoStar and the Kudelski Group created in 1998.NagraStar supplies conditional access and smart cards used by EchoStar’s Dish Network American satellite television system and its affiliated companies. The company also offers these partners direct support, maintenance, security, development and the implementation of new solutions in response to the rapid evolution of the American satellite market.
Nagra+ is a company of the Kudelski Group (SWX "KUD") with headquarters in Switzerland. With Nagravision, world leader in conditional access systems for digital television, and Nagra+, the Kudelski Group technologies are being used by major operators in the world representing 35 million subscribers. The strategic position occupied by the Kudelski Group in the domain of digital security systems rests on its long-proven know-how in conditional access systems for analogue television. Fourteen years ago, Canal+ placed its confidence in a young Swiss firm that offered the first content protection technologies. This choice, which contributed to the success of Canal+, led to the formation in 1992 of a joint company Nagra+. It was also the springboard that enabled the Kudelski Group to become today’s world leader in conditional access technologies. Nagra+ today remains the world’s number one supplier of analogue television systems. The company occupies a particularly strong position in Europe. Its conditional access systems are used by Canal+ operators in France, Spain and Poland, Mediaoverseas (France) and Cine5 (Turkey).
New generation smart cards Produced by another Kudelski Group subsidiary, NagraCard, the smart card plays an essential role in Nagravision's high-security digital TV solutions. Programmed to act as a barrier authorizing or prohibiting access to a given service, the smart card also acts as a security platform for interactive applications such as on-line shopping, games and banking transactions, and even as a means of payment. A number of developments have been carried out by NagraCard over the last two years regarding both the smart card hardware (increase in memory capacity) and software (introduction of new functionality). Aside from increased security, the new generation of smart cards offers additional functions to manage purchase of "impulse" products. These can range from a simple film to complex subscriptions to several channels or to series of events. Operators whose offering includes e-commerce as well as the traditional television services particularly appreciate the flexibility that the card offers and the savings on administration costs that it allows them to make.
Encryption methods - providing even greater security Security is critical in a conditional access system, in order to ensure that only authorized subscribers can receive the signal. Securing data is all the more important in the fast-growing sector of e-commerce on the Internet, as the financial consequences of piracy can be dire. At the heart of its conditional access solutions, Nagravision uses the most efficient Encryption Technologies.Through its joint-venture company MediaCrypt, Kudelski offers licenses using the IDEA™ Algorithm with a 128 Bit Key, reputed to be the most secure on the market and used in Encryption Modules and smart cards. Over the year 2000, Nagravision developed pre-encryption technology designed to ensure security of digital content on the server of the content provider, at the beginning of the transmission chain. This technique responds to concerns over copyright protection in the context of applications such as video on demand, distance learning, multimedia on demand over broadband networks, etc.