Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, and Phoenix (AZ), USA – September 4, 2024 – NAGRAVISION, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions, today announced a partnership with Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc., (OTCQB:BDRL) a leading designer and manufacturer of video transmission technology based in the USA. The partnership provides a highly secure solution for replacing existing PowerKey CableCARDS whose end-of-life has been declared.
The NAGRAVISION solution, integrated with Blonder Tongue hardware, uses software-based conditional access technology for cable and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes. Direct integration enables different security levels for providers of hospitality services. The implementation is DVB-CSA2 SimulCrypt descrambling in the Blonder Tongue NXG Video Gateway System with initial key provisioning accomplished over-the-air (OTA) based on the device identifier. Additional licenses are provided by the NAGRAVISION security platform.
“We wanted to partner with a market leader who could help us address the pressing need for an alternative to the PowerKey CableCARD ahead of its end of life.” said Bob Palle, President and CEO at Blonder Tongue Laboratories Inc. “Ensuring continuity of service for the millions of consumers who are affected by this deadline while safeguarding valuable content investments for service providers distributing content to hospitality venues was a key objective of this partnership and NAGRAVISION was the natural choice.”
“As our industry continues to transform, NAGRAVISION is pleased to collaborate with Blonder Tongue to ensure that our customers can maintain service continuity and minimize any disruption to hospitality venues” said Tom Wirth, Senior Vice President, Market Development at NAGRAVISION. “Our long-standing expertise in the industry for securing valuable content investments, ensures our solutions remain the natural choice for major content distributors, and we’re excited to be working with a number of large customers as they adopt this new solution.”
Part of the NAGRAVISION broadcast solution offering, the two-way conditional access solution distributed through this partnership, is used by content distributors the world over and forms a core part of the NAGRAVISON solution range that has secured the pay-TV and hospitality sectors for over 30 years.
To learn more about NAGRAVISION broadcast security solutions, visit our website or get in touch for a conversation with one of our locally based solution experts.