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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Vestitel Selects Widevine® to Secure Multiplatform IPTV Delivery
Widevine protects wholesale service distribution for STBs, PCs, Macs and more
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Sofia, Bulgaria, March 25, 2009 — Vestitel BG today announced they have selected Widevine Technologies, the only provider of multiplatform, multiformat DRM and CAS, for protecting IPTV service delivery throughout Bulgaria. Vestitel provides a hosted IPTV service to regional operators who rebrand the service for their subscribers. Widevine Cypher® enables Vestitel to encrypt premium content offerings once, while passing rights control to downstream operators and keeping content persistently secure to the subscriber device.
Vestitel turned to Widevine as their needs for secure end-to-end video distribution, storage and playback emerged. Widevine Cypher encrypts content once and enables it to be securely delivered anywhere Vestitel and its IPTV partners choose. Vestitel currently offers over 70 broadcast channels and additional interactive services. As consumer demand for entertainment on retail connected devices grows Vestitel can utilize their existing Widevine solution to expand secure distribution to other platforms in the future. Vestitel’s services are currently available to over 100,000 homes in Bulgaria.
“We understand the importance of meeting consumer demand with service offerings that are compelling to users,” said Alexander Vaglarov, CEO of Vestitel. “With Widevine’s downloadable conditional access and DRM, we can finally offer partnership IPTV services on a wide range of consumer platforms using a single content protection solution. Our vision of bridging services from the STB to the PC and onward to mobile platforms is now possible.”
Industry-leading Widevine Cypher provides the only multiplatform, multiformat DRM and conditional access system that enables interactive television service delivery to popular consumer platforms. Widevine’s renewable DRM and CAS client enables operators to keep up with consumer demands for watching content on their device of choice, in the home or on the road.
“Service expansion and secure delivery to a wide range of devices has differentiated Vestitel’s business,” said Doug Light, Sr. VP of Global Sales and Business Development at Widevine. “Widevine continues to showcase why it remains the preferred provider of DRM and CAS when flexibility, control and the ability to bridge services to retail consumer platforms is required.”
About Vestitel BG, JSC
Vestitel was established in 2003, Shareholders - 99% Overgas Holding (major player on the Bulgarian market, developing and providing infrastructure and distribution services in the field of gasification).
Vestitel is a licensed telecom operator in Bulgaria, offering 3-play services (TV, Internet and Phone) using FTTB technology. Vestitel fibre optical network is built in parallel to gas distribution network in the main Bulgarian cities. The company deployed own international optical network from Sofia (Bulgaria) to Thessaloniki (Greece).
The company is the first and only operator deploying IPTV service in Bulgaria, launched under brand name TIVIA. The main idea of IPTV hosting model is the establishment of a consistent centralized TV system with all required parts – broadcasting of high quality TV signal to the end subscriber though its own and each partner (ISP and Telecom operators) network, centralized monitoring & control, centralized content agreement process, protection and wide variety of the content, interactive functionality. The key for success of IPTV hosting model is in specialization and equivalent partnership. For more information, www.vestitel.bg.
About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
Widevine is the only provider of multiplatform and multiformat DCAS, DRM, digital copy protection, and video optimization solutions for content owners, telco, cable, satellite, DTT, and Internet service operators. More than 140 service providers and 160 web properties utilize Widevine solutions to enable the acquisition and distribution of premium studio and broadcaster content to a wide range of consumer devices. Widevine makes it possible to protect Internet and pay TV revenues while creating new service opportunities through the secure distribution, identification, and tracking of digital content.
An innovator and holder of 55 patents, the company continues to develop new technologies and solutions that solve the multiplatform and multiformat content protection and digital forensic needs of content owners and operators globally. Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington, funded by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU), and VantagePoint Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.widevine.com.
Contact:
Kristine Bennett
Widevine Technologies
+ 1 404 266 2060 x13
kfbennett@calysto.com
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