Digital Fountain and Irdeto Access Join to Demonstrate New Internet Commerce Solution at NAB 2002.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB 2002 Booth S7623 FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002 Secure Content Delivered On-Demand with Unprecedented Reliability and Efficiency Irdeto Access (Nasdaq:MIHL MIHL Midland Inline Hockey League (Midland, Michigan) MIHL Mullet Invitational Hockey League ) and Digital Fountain have joined forces to provide secure, on-demand multicasting over standard IP networks. The two companies are collaborating on a solution that combines Digital Fountain's patented transport technology with the Irdeto CypherCast IP 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. platform. This solution will allow entertainment media companies and enterprises to use the Internet as a mass medium for entertainment and education, and to offer a wide range of products and services including on-demand purchase of digital products like music, books and videos. For Video-on-Demand (VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand ) applications, Digital Fountain's unrivaled asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. multicast capabilities combined with Irdeto CypherCast content protection using smart-card technology allow content owners and broadband operators to embrace IP delivery by providing full conditional-access functionality to IP networks. Irdeto's technology ensures that distributors' content is delivered only to paying customers. The joint solution also creates incentive for customers to purchase additional products and services by delivering DVD-quality content on-demand, with access not restricted to a rigid programming schedule. "In order to make an on-demand media operation both profitable to providers and appealing to customers, you need high reliability and high security," said Cliff Meltzer, chief executive officer at Digital Fountain. "Irdeto CypherCast technology and Digital Fountain's transport technology combine to create the perfect solution for Internet distribution of high-volume, high quality content." Current attempts to stream rich media have been limited to scheduled live broadcasts or scheduled access to archived content. This eliminates one of the greatest benefits of Internet-based content distribution--on-demand access. Digital Fountain and Irdeto make secure, on-demand access to rich digital media possible for TV-scale audiences on the Internet. "Digital Fountain's technology plays an essential role in making on-demand multicasting a reality," said Graham Kill, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for Irdeto Access. "Together with our access security technology, media companies now have a turnkey system A complete system of hardware and software delivered to the customer ready-to-run. In other words, just "turn the key" and go.  A Turnkey Video System for media on-demand over an IP network." On-demand delivery of rich content is made possible with Digital Fountain's patented "Meta-Content(TM)" technology -- a technology that changes the fundamental assumptions associated with distributing rich content. With Meta-Content, individual users can receive content whenever they request it, with no increase in server load for each additional user. Joint Demonstration at NAB Irdeto Access and Digital Fountain will be demonstrating their joint solution at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas at the Irdeto Access booth, S7623, in the Sands Expo Center, April 8-11, 2002. About Irdeto Access Irdeto Access, a subsidiary of MIH MIH Make It Happen (band) MIH Master of International Health (University of Copenhagen) MIH Molar-Incisor-Hypomineralisation MIH Men in Hats (online comic) Limited (NASDAQ & Euronext Amsterdam: MIHL), is a world leader in technology for the securing of content from concept to consumer. Irdeto Access specializes in designing, developing and marketing end-to-end solutions to manage and protect content from unauthorized access in both the television broadcast and Internet environments. Irdeto Access has been providing encryption technology for more than 30 years, and was first to launch an MPEG-2/DVB compliant digital conditional access system A conditional access system (CAS) is a system by which electronic transmission of digital media, especially satellite television signals through cable, is limited to subscribed clients. This is called conditional access. . Irdeto Access has more than 60 customers, with systems deployed in more than 50 countries worldwide. There are over 7-million Irdeto Access smart cards in circulation and a total of 9.5-million secured devices active in the field. Consistent with its multi-faceted approach to content protection, Irdeto Access is a founder and active member of the European Association against Pay Media Piracy (AEPOC AEPOC Européenne pour la Protection des Oeuvres et services Cryptés (European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services) ), as well as the DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. committee, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (body) European Telecommunications Standards Institute - (ETSI) A European version of the ITU-T(?). (ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. ), IP Multicast Initiative (IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A protocol for monitoring server hardware for temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, etc. Introduced in 1998 by Intel, HP, NEC and Dell, IPMI defines a standard set of messages for the characteristics of hardware ) and numerous other industry bodies. About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain is the leading innovator in the delivery of high-volume, mission-critical data and media-rich files over IP networks. The family of Fountain Appliances and Servers(TM) uses Meta-Content(TM) technology, which encodes data into a series of equations from which an unlimited number of users can reconstruct a perfect copy of the original content. Meta-Content technology eliminates the need for retransmissions or receipt acknowledgement and makes data loss irrelevant. As a result, our products and solutions deliver data faster and more reliably than any other data transport technology or product. For more information please call 510-284-1400, send a fax to 510-284-1499 or send e-mail to press@digitalfountain.com. Company information is also available at www.digitalfountain.com Fountain Server, Streaming Fountain, Meta-Content and the Digital Fountain logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Digital Fountain, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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