Axinom DRM (Digital Rights Management)

Axinom DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a robust and scalable multi-DRM service residing in-cloud or on-premises. It supports the latest industry standards, including MPEG-DASH, Common Encryption, and Encrypted Media Extensions. Through its unified API, supporting multiple DRM technologies (Microsoft PlayReady, Apple FairPlay, and Google Widevine), the service enables customers to target a wide range of client platforms with a single service.

The Nextologies fibre network connecting Canada, USA, Eastern Europe and Asia, combined with our fixed satellite network, is the best in our region giving instant access to over 55,000 channels. The Nextologies fibre network is fully protected, geographically diverse and self-healing. Nextologies offers full-time redundant gigabit fibre connectivity to all of the major BDUs in Canada and MSOs in the USA.

Nextologies uses state-of-the-art technology enabling the utmost quality and reliability in broadcast video transmissions. Our network's fibre optic digital circuits are built with redundancy and diverse systems, which minimize latency and jitter characteristics.

Viaccess-Orca’s (VO) secure video player is a multiplatform player integrated with major DRMs — including Microsoft PlayReady®, VO’s proprietary DRM, Google Widevine®, and Apple FairPlay® — for premium VOD and live content, allowing operators to provide a compelling and unified viewing experience, with low latency, across OTT devices.

The player utilizes the same software across all platforms, solving multiscreen fragmentation across small, medium, and large connected screens, featuring offline support for Mac and PC. In addition, the platform allows streaming content to be downloaded and stored locally for later playback, in compliance with the content owner’s security requirements. It supports VAST, VMAP and SCTE-35 for dynamic ad insertion with no buffering between content and ad switch. Support for CMAF and HLS Widevine reduces the platform’s total cost of ownership.

The one-stop shop solution is supported across multiple platforms and operating systems, including mobiles, desktops, the web, smart TVs, STBs, Android, Android TV, iOS, tvOS, Microsoft Windows®, and MacOS®. By supporting all of the latest streaming standards, it ensures operators can deliver low-latency live OTT experiences, fast zapping time, responsive scrubbing, and successfully deploy ad insertion. In addition, the secure video player supports React Native, a key advantage for app development companies. The player includes sophisticated DRM with anti-debugging, anti-tampering, and other security features, keeping content safe from hackers. The player is backed by best-in-class support, leveraging VO’s professional support team to integrate profound security and video expertise and utilize DevOps for customer-focused development and delivery.

The nature of piracy is changing. The proliferation of device environments and the worldwide scaling of broadband access have expanded the range of security threats to premium video services. Operators need to react instantly to security threats, especially when delivering premium video content and live sports events. Viaccess-Orca’s (VO) Anti-Piracy Center is a comprehensive set of managed security services that enable operators to fight piracy from every point of attack ­by assessing the security, monitoring the threats, identifying the source of piracy, and taking counteractions.

The Anti-Piracy Center provides a wide range of services to fight piracy, leveraging the latest advancements in AI and data analytics. It includes device and set-top box assessment, dynamic watermarking, an intrusion-detection system, password-sharing identification, and Eye on Piracy for removing pirated content on Cyberlockers, pirate boxes, torrents, and social networks. VO’s dynamic watermarking technology, developed in collaboration with b<>com, has been assessed for robustness by Cartesian and received a 100% score.

With its Anti-Piracy Center, VO’s security experts combat premium content restreaming on behalf of operators. From its operating center, VO monitors and prevents pirates from hacking the content distribution chain via a full integrated multi-DRM designed to protect content from end-to-end, starting with the service delivery platform to the end-user device. VO’s Anti-Piracy Center utilizes real-time monitoring with a web-based portal and advanced forensic technology to support legal prosecution. As a managed service, VO’s Anti-Piracy Center eliminates the need for operators to invest in complicated technologies or to constantly train security teams.

Marlin DRM is an open-standard specification for digital rights management (DRM) that is applicable to a variety of use cases across content types, content formats, delivery mechanisms and platforms. It offers sophisticated copyrights management for playing entertainment and media content (including audio, video, ebooks, and games) distributed over mobile, broadband, and broadcast networks. Unique to Marlin is its general-purpose rights management architecture that allows for substantial flexibility and control in implementation.

Since Marlin is not a proprietary DRM, it is able to deliver content over any network or physical media. It seamlessly ports licensed content across devices and services in a consumer’s home or personal domain and supports a large and flexible set of business models for content distribution.

Intertrust, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, and Sony co-founded the Marlin DRM standard in 2005. The technology specifications and test tools that were jointly developed are freely accessible for evaluation on the Marlin DRM website.

Marlin technology is a consumer electronics and mobile friendly technology, compatible with all popular operating systems, platforms, codecs, file formats, and delivery systems. Marlin supports various content distribution models like download, progressive download, streaming, adaptive streaming, multicast and broadcast.

Seacert’s managed PKI service makes it easy to embed agile, scalable, and secure device identities to get your IoT projects up and running quickly and safely. Seacert can deliver device identities directly to the factory floor or in the field through our scalable cloud provisioning service—up to 10 million device IDs per day.

Running a secure PKI requires specialized facilities, technology, people and processes. Seacert provides secure, cost-effective identity provisioning that frees you to focus on your core business, at a savings of 50-85% over what it costs to provision identities in house.

Modern IoT devices need more than X.509 certificates to stay relevant and safe throughout their lifecycle. With Seacert, securely update firmware, reconfigure identities, embed custom attributes, and control access and actions to capitalize on new capabilities and meet changing regulations.

Seacert has issued billions of cryptographic credentials to leading global consumer electronics device makers and service providers for over fourteen years.  Seacert is WebTrust compliant, ISO:9001-2015 certified, and boasts a record that is 100% on-time and error free.

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The cloud-based ExpressPlay Media Security Suite enables multi-DRM protected content delivery for live and on-demand streaming platforms, complemented by forensic watermarking and anti-piracy services. The suite offers a unique approach for broadcast and hybrid TV service security based on the open-standard Marlin DRM, which lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) in conjunction with smart TVs by eliminating the need for set-top boxes (STBs) and other external security devices. The Media Security Suite also offers an offline multi-DRM solution to secure offline playback and content download, which is ideal for transportation and hospitality use cases where there is little or no internet connectivity.

The suite consists of the following solutions:

• ExpressPlay DRM—Cloud-based multi-DRM service


• ExpressPlay Anti-Piracy and Watermarking—Forensic watermarking, piracy monitoring and identification


• ExpressPlay XCA—Converged security for broadcasting and OTT streaming


• ExpressPlay DRM Offline—Secure download and offline playback


• Kiora—Entertainment everywhere platform

Intertrust Kiora is an end-to-end content delivery platform for entertainment everywhere and on-the-go applications. Service providers may publish and stream content via local Wi-Fi hotspots to user-provided devices. Kiora is ideal for transportation and hospitality applications with limited internet access such as buses, planes, and trains. Premium content is licensed by Filmbankmedia and requires ExpressPlay DRM Offline solution.

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Watch TV on mobile devices without internet access. This solution enables terrestrial TV operators to deliver Pay-TV services to Android mobile devices over DVB-T/T2 or ISDB-T networks. The mobile devices receive the TV signals by utilizing a standard mobile TV dongle and the Pay-TV services are decrypted by CryptoGuard's Mobile CAS integrated with the mobile TV dongle app.

CryptoGuard’s Multi-DRM Solution offers any size OTT operator to cost-effectively manage content rights towards users and devices from the CryptoGuard head end. The settings of OTT functions such as Start Over TV, Catch Up TV, limiting the number of simultaneous devices etc. are easily managed together with the broadcasted live TV streams. The solution supports DRM formats including Google Widevine, Apple FairPlay and Microsoft PlayReady enabling a highly secure content delivery. These DRMs are natively supported by the browser, mobile device or set top box and are approved by major studios. The DRM supports DASH, MPEG4 and HLS profiles, on the fly encryption and online & offline viewing.