Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Cabot Communications | Subject: Aurora
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 September 2005
DVB middleware works with pay-TV stack
The award-winning Aurora pan-European DVB middleware suite is pre-integrated with the Conax embedded conditional access (CA) stack
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UK digital TV software company Cabot Communications today announced that its award-winning pan-European DVB middleware suite, Aurora, is pre-integrated with the Conax embedded conditional access (CA) stack. The Conax integration will be demonstrated for the first time at IBC. It is the first step in Cabot's strategy to integrate Aurora with Europe's leading conditional access systems to help manufacturers respond to the predicted growth of premium, pay TV services in the digital DVB-T market.
To support market uptake of pay TV services across Europe, manufacturers will need to integrate multiple CA systems with their hardware platform, a costly and time-consuming development process.
Cabot intends to help manufacturers to speed up time to market and reduce development costs by pre-integrating its DVB middleware with widely deployed CA systems.
The Conax system is already deployed by pay TV service providers in the Netherlands and Finland.
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DTV middleware stack covers all European markets
Aurora is billed as the first complete, turnkey open standards-based DVB middleware stack for free-to-air digital terrestrial and satellite receivers
Aurora currently supports CAS5 with CAS7 support expected to be available early next year.
Support for further conditional access systems, including Mediaguard, will be added to Aurora within the next 12 months, making it a truly pan-European DVB-T engine, for deployment with the emerging pay-TV content, as well as free-to-air services on the DTT platform.
Giri Valliappan Technical Marketing Manager at Cabot said: 'By developing and integrating a Conax conditional access system (CAS) alongside our Aurora solution, we are saving manufacturer's months of development time so they can respond to consumer demand and hence speed up market uptake of pay TV services'.
'As the pay-TV providers make their services available on the DTT platform, we are committed to offering manufacturers across Europe a complete pan-European DVB middleware solution, supporting fast delivery of digital TV devices and maintaining our market leadership'.
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