"Delivering the VCAS security solutions on scalable, reliable IBM server platforms has demonstrable cost benefits, both for immediate deployment and in drastically reducing the long-term cost of maintenance."
— Steve Oetegenn, Chief Sales/Marketing Officer, Verimatrix
The new digital world of pay-TV is as exciting as it is dramatic — a world of pervasive access to information and entertainment, personalized for your preferences. But this is also a world where content piracy threatens to undermine the very business model that drives the vision.
Sophisticated 3-dimensional content protection Verimatrix is a leading provider of IPTV content protection and at the forefront of the pay-TV business. The Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) offers an advanced suite of technologies to address content security challenges for the pay-TV networks. Traditional conditional access systems have been architected around one-way communications, while Verimatrix has designed its solutions from the ground up using the power and integrity of modern two-way IP infrastructure. By using advanced cryptographic and e-commerce technologies that have been proven on the Internet, including PKI and X.509 digital certification, has enabled Verimatrix VCAS to deliver more sophisticated levels of content protection than traditional smart-card based systems.
The Verimatrix Content Security Manager (CSM) is the core component of the Verimatrix VCAS and enables and supports all features and options within a VCAS secured pay-TV system.
Verimatrix and IBM: a winning combination
The combination of Verimatrix and IBM System x family delivers the performance, reliability and affordability demanded by mission critical telecommunications applications. The IBM System x is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services providing a single platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.
