Latens Wins IPTV Deal With Midwest TelNet

By DAVID SIMS

TMCnet CRM Alert Columnist

Latens Systems, a provider of IPTV Conditional Access, has announced that Midwest TelNet, a consortium of thirteen IOCs in southwest Wisconsin, has selected Latens FCAS Conditional Access to secure its advanced IPTV services.

FCAS will integrate with AmiNET110 and AmiNET500 set-top boxes from Amino, an IPTV set-top box supplier and with Minerva’s iTV Manager.

Midwest TelNet can now offer its subscribers secured video services that include Pay-TV, High Definition, personal video recording, video-on-demand and subscription video-on-demand as MPEG-2 streams.

Earlier this year analyst firm Dittberner released a report finding that the incremental IPTV equipment market will reach $336 million in 2013, up from $30 million in 2005. The number of IPTV subscribers, will reach 53 million globally in 2013 from about 2 million as of end of last year.

"Other studies on IPTV's effect on network equipment market growth ignore the fact that most IPTV subscribers over the next seven years will be high-speed Internet access subscribers already," said James Heath, Director, Broadband research at Dittberner, and the author of the report "IPTV Impact on Public Networks."

Heath added that "IPTV's subscriber base will not become significant for a decade and the incremental investment per subscriber will be low. Combined together, these provide a small boost to forecasted DSL, FTTH, and router sales."

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Rodney Olson, General Manager of Vernon Telephone, a member company of the Midwest TelNet consortium said they chose Latens “because they have an enviable track record in real-world deployments” and offer the sort of product that “satisfies our service offer in the short and long term.”

Roy Kirsopp, VP & GM at Amino said the integration of Latens FCAS with the AmiNET110 and AmiNET500 “widens the choice for all IPTV operators and removes the pre-launch integration required.”

Latens is a privately held company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, founded by broadcast technology experts and says its “sole mission” is to provide “the industry’s leading software-based Content & Revenue Protection Systems for pay-TV and IPTV operators, as software security replaces legacy Conditional Access technology.”

Latens uses Secure Software Modules to maximize security and minimize the risk of attack.

Late last year Broadstream Communications Inc. selected Latens Systems’ IP CAS IPTV content protection system to secure its digital video broadcast services for its telco content distribution customers, the companies said at TelcoTV.

Integrated with Broadstream’s Bstream middleware platform, Latens’ IP CAS enables service providers to prevent digital piracy.

David Sims is contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims' columnist page.

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