Irdeto Achieves Significant Growth In Asia And Expands Its Media Solutions Offerings

Irdeto, a leading expert in content and business model protection solutions and services attained substantial market momentum in Asia over the past year.
The company, who celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, continues to be an innovator in the digital media industry with some key milestones in the region and expansion of its media solutions portfolio.
A pioneer in the pay TV industry and global leader in conditional access (CA), Irdeto has rapidly expanded its portfolio over the past few years to provide capabilities such as digital rights management, business support systems, set-top box software solutions, software security and broadband media services to more than 500 premier customers worldwide, enabling them to protect and monetize digital content.
This set of capabilities will deliver a converged network architecture that unifies CA and DRM content delivery and protection while extending the operators' span of control into the home network.
With more than 95 patents and patents pending, Irdeto is on the forefront of providing industry leading changes. During the past 40 years of operation, Irdeto delivered the very first DVB-CA system, the first IPTV deployment and the first Mobile TV CA solution.
In South East Asia, Irdeto is firmly positioned as the leader in CA with 64 per cent market share according to Media Partners Asia. The company has also seen strong growth in India and China with top-tier Pay TV operators. To support its expanded operation in Asia, Irdeto has opened four new offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Taiwan and India over the past two years.
As the media landscape evolves, Irdeto is focused on providing innovative solutions that meet the demands of their customers to provide consumers with rich home media and entertainment. Next-generation set-top boxes and advanced consumer electronics devices are integrating video content from multiple sources, such as broadcast TV, premium video-on-demand and IP-based services, and providing value-added capabilities, such as time-shifting, multi-room PVR and device-to-device distribution between personal computers, portable media players and other mobile devices.
Graham Kill, Chief Executive Officer of Irdeto, said: "Celebrating our 40-year anniversary this year is a big milestone for Irdeto which has grown from our roots as a pioneer in pay TV technology to become a global player in the digital media arena. We owe our success to being able to adapt to, and anticipate, the ever evolving demands of our industry and of course to our valued partnerships with customers and core vendors and partners worldwide."
(KMcA/BMcC)