Bharti Airtel Launches Airtel's Direct-to-Home Digital Television Service Based on NDS End-to-End Solution.Highlights: * An end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. from NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services including VideoGuard([R]) conditional access Conditional Access (acronymized CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content. The term is commonly used in relation to digital television systems, most notably satellite television. , MediaHighway([R]) middleware and customised electronic programme guide (EPG (Electronic Program Guide) An online listing of TV or other programs. Periodically, EPGs are downloaded into set-top boxes so that viewers can preview offerings by time or category and set reminders. ) protects and enhances Bharti Airtel's new digital satellite service * Airtel digital TV launches NDS interactive TV (iTV) and games providing innovative new services to viewers NEW DELHI New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. , India -- NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that Bharti Airtel, India's leading integrated telecom services provider, has launched Airtel digital TV based on a complete end-to-end system from technology partner NDS to secure, enable and enhance its Direct-to-Home (DTH (Direct-To-Home) Typically refers to satellite TV broadcasting directly to a dish antenna on the roof of a house. See DBS. ) service. Bharti Airtel, in collaboration with NDS, has launched its DTH service with VideoGuard([R]) conditional access (CA), MediaHighway([R]) middleware and customised multi-lingual Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). NDS' market-leading CA and DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M technology protects over 95.4 million digital devices around the world and secures service revenues of over $40 billion worldwide. Middleware from NDS has been deployed in over 98.7 million devices. NDS solutions enable Bharti Airtel to offer its subscribers advanced services to maximise viewer choice. Additionally they provide the flexibility to allow Bharti Airtel to introduce future enhancements such as further interactive applications and NDS' world leading digital video recorder See DVR. (DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. ) technology. NDS continues its commitment to deliver and support state-of-the-art technology and innovative solutions for Bharti Airtel that will enable it to secure content and raise the standards of service available to pay-TV subscribers in India. Recently voted India's most innovative company and ranked amongst the best performing companies in the world, Bharti Airtel is a pioneering force in the telecom sector. With an aggregated 80 million customers, India's largest mobile operator is recognised for creating unique world-class products for the Indian market. Announcing this latest development in the company's DTH strategy, Mr. N. Arjun, Executive Director, Bharti Telemedia said, "Over the years we have delighted millions of customers with our telecom services and now with Airtel digital TV, we plan to deliver a magical in-home entertainment experience to TV viewers. DTH is the future of television in India A huge industry by itself, the Indian silver screen has thousands of programmes in all the states of India. The small screen has produced numerous celebrities of their own kind some even attaining national fame.TV soaps are extremely popular with housewives as well as working women. and with Airtel digital TV we bring the best combination of latest technology and exciting content. With the support of our technology partner NDS, we look forward to providing superior, state-of-the-art services to our DTH service customers." Sue Taylor, Senior VP and General Manager of NDS Asia Pacific, said: "Bharti Airtel's decision to launch their DTH service with a suite of NDS solutions is a validation of the technology leadership of NDS and recognition of the significant investment in NDS' capabilities in India over the past eight years. We are honoured to be part of this new frontier in Indian pay-TV and to assist Bharti Airtel in delivering the latest leading edge digital and interactive entertainment services to their subscribers." NDS has a global presence, with local sales and support offices in key markets all over the world including Mumbai and New Delhi. In addition, NDS' R&D facility in Bangalore has been operational for eight years, employs over 1,000 people, and has played a key role in the development of Bharti Airtel's state-of-the-art NDS digital broadcast solution. Bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. : del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Newsvine | ma.gnolia | Yahoo | Google About Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India's leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of around 80 million customers as of end of September 2008, consisting of 77.47 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel Limited has been voted India's most innovative company in a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal. Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 95 cities, DTH services and is foraying into the IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. segment. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel's high-speed optical fibre network currently spans over 83,389km covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connect two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in About NDS NDS Group plc (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NNDS NNDS Norsk Nettverk for Down Syndrom (Norway) ), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-TV platform operators and content providers. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS. Read about the latest developments at NDS and in the pay-TV industry in World Vision Click here for the NDS RSS feed Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-looking Statements This document may contain certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These statements are based on management's views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance as of the time the statements are made. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market, regulatory and other factors. 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