Market leading content protection

Conditional Access Modules (CAMs) provide access to Pay-TV services that has been encrypted using a Conditional Access System.  Hercules supports a range of fully integrated CAMs for both satellite and terrestrial broadcasts.  The following CAMs are supported:

• Conax
• Cryptoworks
• Irdeto
• Viaccess
• Mediaguard
• Neotion MPEG4
• SmarDTV
• Neotion

 
Common Interface is a compulsory feature for every Integrated Digital Television (IDTV) sold in the EU and many broadcasters are now using Conditional Access Systems.  Some of these include:

• Mediaset (Italy)
• Boxer (Sweden)
• Digitnet (Switzerland)
• Zuum TV (Estonia)
• Digitenne (Netherland)

Easy integration for shortened product development time

Integrating a CI solution into an existing DVB software implementation requires substantial changes to be made to the middleware stack.  The lengthy development times involved often mean that products ultimately reach the market at a higher price and at a later date than the manufacturers had been targeting, missing their market window.  Hercules solves this problem by providing standardised interfaces and components, allowing easy integration and substantially reducing engineering time and effort.

Hercules is fully portable and includes many features which enable it to be integrated with other DVB cores with minimal time and effort.  Its easy integration features include an adaptation layer called ECI and market-leading porting guides and support services.

 For further information regarding this, or any other Cabot solution, please contact us.