FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Widevine® Technologies To Provide Content Security to UTOPIA
Selected by the largest fiber-to-the-premise project in the country serving approximately 170,000 homes and businesses in 14 Utah cities
Seattle, WA, October 5, 2004 –Widevine® Technologies today announced that UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency) has selected Widevine Cypher® for its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) network. The deal involves a three year contract, which will offer IPTV, ultra high-speed internet, always-on video monitoring and broadcast quality video telephony to 14 cities in Utah.
UTOPIA is based on DynamicCity’s patent-pending Open Service Provider Network™ (OSPN™) business model. DynamicCity is the company that provided the feasibility, architecture and assisted in arranging the financing for UTOPIA. The OSPN model separates network ownership from service providers, eliminating monopolistic telecommunication business practices while creating choice and competition for the consumer. As such, UTOPIA is one of, if not the world’s largest, fiber-to-the home (FTTH) and fiber-to-the-business (FTTB) projects launched to date.
“Widevine presented a very compelling solution for content protection that we feel will result in the best service possible for our service providers’ customers,” said Paul Morris, executive director for UTOPIA. “The idea of paying for smart cards never appealed to us and Widevine’s industry leading solution provided the security we needed at a cost we feel is right. The fact that Widevine’s products have proven their interoperability with the other key components of our network’s IP video capacity was also a key consideration.”
The Widevine Virtual SmartCard solution significantly lowers the costs of securing content over video networks while dramatically raising the bar on piracy. Today, the Virtual SmartCard is being deployed in broadband video projects throughout the world.
“UTOPIA is a key win for Widevine,” said Brian Baker, President and CEO of Widevine Technologies. “This project is highly visible in the industry and represents another solid case for the Virtual SmartCard and Widevine’s technology.”
For the UTOPIA project, Widevine will deploy with iTVManager from Minerva and set-top-boxes from Amino Communications.
About Virtual SmartCard
Widevine offers the Cypher™ Suite based upon the Virtual SmartCard™ enabling the operator to obtain premium on-demand titles. Cypher Suite contains patented technologies for VOD (Cypher VOD™), digital broadcast (Cypher Broadcast™), conditional access/digital rights management (Cypher CA™) and Digital Copy Protection™ (Cypher DCP™). For more information see Widevine Technologies at www.widevine.com.
About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
Widevine supplies a comprehensive suite of conditional access and digital rights management products to the Telco, Cable, and Satellite Operators enabling the deployment of Interactive Television services such as Digital Broadcast, VOD and PVR. Widevine insures that the content that is watched is paid for and that it is only used for its intended purpose Headquartered in Seattle, Widevine’s products secure video services (VOD, broadcast channels, etc.) over cable, xDSL (Telco), and Fiber optic networks. Comprised of world-class engineers and experts in security and encryption, Widevine has developed a unique suite of technologies and products to secure the transmission of media. Widevine has 1 patent issued and 21 pending.
About UTOPIA
The Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency or UTOPIA, is fourteen Utah cities that have joined together to bring fiber optic broadband capabilities to every home and business in their communities. UTOPIA will bring broadband capabilities to approximately 170,000 homes and businesses. UTOPIA is the largest municipally owned fiber-to-the-premise project and Open Service Provider Network™ in the United States.
Media Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
Tel: +1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com
Hugh Matheson
The Exoro Group (for UTOPIA)
Tel: 801.537.0900
hm@exoro.com
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