Viaccess-Orca, a global leader in the protection and enhancement of content services, last week announced Adaptive Sentinel, a new converged card and cardless conditional access system (CAS), said to offer unprecedented ease of transition between the two technologies, unified over an end-to-end solution architecture.
Cardless security offers a fast and cost-effective launch of service for operators to manage their subscriber base while allowing transition to card-based technologies. The card option uses Viaccess-Orca's new generation of smart card – the PC6 – and provides operators with a cost-effective security solution pre-integrated with other ecosystem components.
Adaptive Sentinel supports a wide range of business models, including subscription TV, a la carte, and prepaid, to enable revenue growth. The CAS is pre-integrated with set top box (STB) middleware and CAM modules, ensuring fast time to market. The ecosystem was built with partners such as Neotion and Jiuzhou.
"Operators strive for content security that is simple, affordable, and responsive to both the evolving business imperatives of their content agreements and the reality of the content piracy landscape," said David Leporini, EVP Marketing Products and Security at Viaccess-Orca. "Adaptive Sentinel has been designed to answer service providers' challenges for content security rollout, evolution, and migration, as the needs of the services they offer change over time."
Orange France will introduce Viaccess-Orca's new-generation smart card on its satellite signal by the end of the year. Adaptive Sentinel will also be deployed by the M7 Group, a Pan-European provider of DTH satellite and IPTV 3P services that operates multiple brands such as Canal Digital and Online.nl in the Netherlands and Skylink in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.