(Oslo, Norway and Centennial, Colorado - October 16, 2008) Evolution Digital LLC, a leading supplier of digital solutions for bandwidth reclamation and next generation advanced set-top boxes, and Conax, a global provider of conditional access solutions, announce an exclusive technology partnership to integrate the Conax CA technology into a full range of DTA's and advanced Set-top boxes.
"Evolution has selected best-in-class technology partners to bring cutting-edge solutions to the North American Cable & Telecommunications Market. The depth and breadth of Conax's Conditional Access expertise enable Evolution to deliver the industry's most powerful conditional access solutions to North America," said Chris Egan, Principal, Evolution Digital, LLC. "By integrating Conax CAS7 conditional access into Evolution's digital solutions, we can provide the high performance DTA and Set-top boxes that provide operators with state-of-the-art security and content protection."
As part of the partnership, Conax has chosen Evolution as exclusive supplier to the North American Cable TV market. Evolution will provide all product and in-country support for both end-users and integrators.
"Conax has chosen Evolution as our partner in the North American market. Together we have spearheaded the effort to provide international DVB open-standards solutions to the US cable market," says Geir Bjørndal, COO/Sales & Marketing Director, Conax. "Evolution has already deployed a number of systems using Conax CAS7 content security in North America with great success."
In addition, Conax and Evolution are working closely with CableLabs for the testing and certification of a CableCARD which meets the FCC requirements for separable Security. This product will be an Evolution product with Conax encryption and it will be available in Evolution's full range of tru2way Advanced MPEG4 HD & HD PVR Set-top boxes. Availability is 1st Quarter 2009.
About Evolution
Evolution Digital, LLC is a division of Evolution Broadband and provides unique digital network solutions for the North American Cable TV industry. Evolution Digital has partnered with world class technology companies to deliver a complete digital turnkey solution offering a "One Stop Shop", including MPEG-4, HD and SD programming, fully integrated headend with conditional access and high performance set-top boxes to enable cable operators to deploy advanced digital cable services.
About Conax
Since 1994, Conax has been a pioneer in its field and leading developer of security solutions for digital TV. Today, core product, Conax CAS7, provides content protection for premium pay-TV content via all types of networks - cable, satellite, IP, terrestrial, and MMDS. Through its global network of partners, Conax is able to offer state-of-the-art content security to more than 250 digital TV operators in over 70 countries around the globe. Conax is ISO 9001 certified and ISO 27001 security certified. All Conax products are compliant with open standards.
Conax is fully owned by the international telecommunications company Telenor (www.telenor.com). Telenor is ranked as the world's seventh largest mobile operator and has mobile operations in 12 countries. Telenor has more than 150 million mobile subscribers worldwide.
Conax headquarters are located in Oslo, Norway, with subsidiaries in USA, India and Germany and sales & support offices in Russia, Singapore, China, South Korea, Brazil and Canada.
About DVB
The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 270 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing open technical standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services. Services using DVB standards are available on every continent with more than 170 million DVB receivers deployed.
