FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, January 25, 2005
Widevine® Technologies Announces Global Reseller Agreement with Alcatel
Alcatel Extends Their Turnkey System to Include the Virtual SmartCard™ Based Widevine Cypher®
Widevine’s Worldwide Leadership Position is Further Strengthened
Paris, France, TVODSL 2005 Conference, January 25, 2005 –Widevine® Technologies, the largest provider of content security solutions to the video over xDSL and Fiber to the Home (FTTH) market, today announced that it has entered into a global reseller agreement with Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA). The agreement enables Alcatel, in conjunction with Widevine, to sell, service and support the Widevine Cypher® technology—Virtual SmartCard™ and Application Level encryption—on a global basis.
The Widevine Virtual SmartCard solution is the most deployed content security solution in the TVoDSL and FTTH markets. Based upon its innovative Virtual SmartCard, the solution significantly lowers the costs of securing content over video networks while dramatically raising the bar on piracy. The Widevine technology offers service providers a fully integrated, end-to-end, video security solution.
"Alcatel has shipped millions of DSL lines to leading service providers around the world - almost four times our closest competitor," said Ivan Verbesselt, vice president of Alcatel's Information, Communication, and Entertainment business activity. "Service providers today require the flexibility to deliver video over any access architecture while fully protecting that content from end-to-end. We believe that Widevine greatly strengthens Alcatel's product portfolio and fully complements existing, best of breed "Alcatel Connected" partnerships.”
“Alcatel provides a key global partnership for Widevine," said Brian Baker, President and CEO of Widevine Technologies. “The significance of this agreement with Alcatel is that it immediately provides Widevine with a world class partner with corresponding world wide coverage and support.”
“The cooperation for ChungHwa Telecom was the catalyst for getting this deal done,” stated John Hoskins Sr. VP of Marketing and Sales at Widevine Technologies. “The ease at which the products integrated and the seamless operation at the largest VOD deployment in Asia showed the powerful combination our two companies make.”
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 downloadable 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.
Media Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
Tel: +1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com
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