This is a highly secure encryption system protected against Cardsharing or Control Word Sharing (a fault in the DVB – Digital Video Broadcasting system), which stops the broadcaster's signal from being transmitted illegally.
Cisco´s VideoGuard solution is part of Videoscape Unity, Cisco's platform for delivering and monetizing a new generation of compelling, differentiated video experiences.
It helps protect content and allows GVT to reduce the bandwidth employed to transmit encryption over a multi-channel, high-definition platform, which reduces operating costs. GVT can use the Cisco solution to broadcast nationwide.
GVT is the company that offers fast speed broadband across its area of operation, the pay TV with the greatest amount of interactive and high-definition channels to 100% of subscribers as well as integrated and convergent advanced landline telephony.
GVT currently serves 146 cities in Brazil and has been gradually expanding coverage as it widens its network in the cities it now operates in and moves into new cities around the country.
"Part of the NDS acquisition, the VideoGuard offering for GVT reinforces Cisco's investment in a globally recognized technology ", said Rodrigo Dienstmann, leader at Cisco Brazil.
Cisco Videoscape Unity is the platform for delivering and monetizing a new generation of compelling, differentiated video experiences. It is the next generation of the Cisco Videoscape platform, now strengthened and enhanced with solutions and expertise from NDS that bring powerful new capabilities across cloud, networks, and clients.
Cisco Videoscape Unity lets you unleash a new generation of video experiences that are:Multiscreen: Take multiscreen experiences to the next level by delivering video in a more exciting, immersive, and engaging way.Synchronized: Push contextual content and targeted ads related to TV programming to companion devices in real time.Personalized: Make it easy for viewers to find content they want with personalized discovery and recommendations based on social connections, analytics, and user profiles.Social: Use social networks to bring people together and deepen viewer engagement with virtual viewing parties, real-time IM, and video chats around linear video and more.
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