Philips and deuromedia demonstrate latest CA technology at NAB

Philips Digital Networks and German-based software solution provider deu-romedia are demonstrating new conditional access technology features for content owners on the Philips booth at NAB2001.

NAB2001, Las Vegas, 23th April 2001 - Philips Digital Networks and deuromedia are combining their expertise in conditional access (CA) and content scheduling in a demonstration on the Philips booth at NAB2001. The two companies announced a co-operation agreement at last year's IBC to combine Philips' IP-DVB gateway and router technology with deuromedia's content scheduling management software to provide fast and reliable broadband access of satellite services to network operators and service providers. This co-operation has now been extended to CA, an area where Philips has proven success through its CryptoWorks product line, a fast-growing, state-of-the-art CA system in the pay-TV domain, and deuromedia with its content scheduling software platform.

The demonstration at NAB2001 comprises Philips' IP Multicast MPEG-4 encoder with deuromedia's 'viewmanage' and 'viewmotion' software at the source side; be-tween, Philips' latest CryptoWorks release 3.1 CA system and security gateway scheduler for content encryption; and a Philips' MPEG-4 player with deuromedia's 'the viewer' at the receiving side. Among other key benefits, this combined offer pro-vides content owners, service providers and network operators with even greater assurance of content protection through an IP-DVB gateway.

Specific additional features of Philips' CryptoWorks 3.1 release include faster con-tent throughput, improved enquiry/search facility, a smaller hardware platform (from five to only one 19-inch unit) and new key management functions. The strength of the deuromedia broadcasting platform is the combination of the interactivity of the Internet with the power of broadcasting. So, this solution guarantee a high quality output, time-accurate data arrival as well as Quality of Services.

Jan Eveleens, general manager of the CryptoTec business line at Philips Digital Networks, commented at NAB: "This demonstration illustrates how rapidly we are advancing CA technology. Partnering with companies like deuromedia helps us to maintain our reputation as a leading supplier of superior CA solutions to the increas-ing number of broadcasters, content owners and network operators throughout the world."

deuromedia's CEO, Dieter Weber, agreed with this, and added: "NAB2001 is the ideal opportunity to demonstrate our latest content scheduling technology. deu-romedia's End to End System allows everybody to be 'on air' in the most easiest way via broadband media. Doing so together with Philips brings a powerful CA solu-tion of especial use to cable operators who now have available one box for com-bined IP and DVB."

About deuromedia technologies

deuromedia is removing the barriers between the Internet and television - the international software manufacturer offers a ready-to-market sender and receiver system for broadband transmissions. Deuromedia has adopted an approach that enables the seamless fusion of all types of digital channels. Thanks to products from deuromedia users can customise content for their own individual purposes. In fact deuromedia solutions offer providers of all kinds of data transfer and content the professional platform: point-to-point, point-to-multipoint as well as formats with two-way capability. The Company was established in Merzig, Germany, in 1996 and currently employs 170 staff throughout the world in development, sales and distribution.

About Philips

Philips Digital Networks is a Business Group of Philips Consumer Electronics, a division of Royal Philips Electronics. Philips Digital Networks is playing a leading role in the business of digital media delivery via broadcast and Internet distribution. In addition to being one of the world's top providers of digital television systems and set-top boxes, including Internet TV and personal video recording solutions, Philips Digital Networks has major business activi-ties in enabling technologies like MPEG4-based media streaming, secure content delivery, middleware and applications for digital TV.

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Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics compa-nies and Europe's largest, with sales of EUR 37.9 billion in 2000. It is a global leader in col-our television sets, lighting, electric shavers, colour picture tubes for televisions and moni-tors, and one-chip TV products. Its 219,400 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, components, semicon-ductors, and medical systems. Philips is quoted on the NYSE (symbol: PHG), London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges.

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