Mr. Jaison Dolvane reports
ESPIAL DELIVERS VALUABLE CAS CONTRIBUTIONS TO RDK COMMUNITY
Espial Group Inc. has recently contributed important conditional access system (CAS)
integration and certification software to the RDK community. Espial has
leveraged its expertise and insights as the first company to certify and
commercially deploy RDK-V Version 2 with leading CAS technologies,
including Nagra, Cisco, Verimatrix and Widevine, to deliver valuable
benefits for future RDK implementations. Ensuring timely and seamless
CAS integrations is a critical element to delivering RDK-V services for
operators.
Supported by over 300 companies, RDK-V is a standardized software stack
created to accelerate deployment of next-generation video products and services
by cable and telecom video operators. It provides a common interface to
SoCs and set-top boxes (STBs), acting as a universal adapter to the
underlying hardware.
After deploying RDK-V Version 2.x with leading European
cable operators like NOS and TeleColumbus, Espial gained deep knowledge
on CAS technologies, processes and certification to ensure timely RDK-V
deployments. Leveraging this experience, Espial has contributed
containerization approaches to the RDK community and is a key member of
the conditional access working group tasked to streamline and
standardize integration, certification technologies and processes.
"Espial's contributions are important additions to RDK, and their
real-world learning and experience is an asset to the community," said
Bill Warga, vice-president, technology, Liberty Global. "We've been impressed with
the breadth of innovation, on technology, organization and processes
that Espial has achieved to deliver the benefits of RDK to operators
globally."
Espial has also made contributions to the RDK community to speed STB
porting, including HALs (hardware abstraction layers) for STBs and remote-controlled functions, as well as several quality improvements to the STB
porting code base. Working with RDK Management LLC, Espial has also
contributed additional test cases to provide coverage for containerized
software builds in RDK, which will be introduced into subsequent
releases of the RDK.
"The success of the RDK is driven by members like Espial bringing
innovation, technical expertise and best practices to the RDK
community. A prime example of this is the contributions Espial has made
to RDK-V CAS integrations and certifications that significantly benefit
global service providers and their technology partners," said Steve
Heeb, president at RDK Management. "We welcome their expertise in
our working groups to ensure RDK remains at the forefront of the
industry."
"Espial is consistently working on the edge of innovation to drive our
products, organization and process to realize every advantage of RDK,"
said Jaison Dolvane, president and chief executive officer of Espial. "We are excited to
share our CAS contributions to the broader RDK community so they can
realize the same approach and benefits to secure their video services.
We will continue to play an active role in working groups, such as RDK-V
CAS integration, to drive continued RDK success and ensure our operator
customers can successfully launch next-generation services, stay up to
speed on the latest technologies, and achieve the significant service
velocity and cost benefits from RDK."
About Espial Group Inc.
With Espial, video service providers create
responsive and engaging subscriber viewing experiences, incorporating
powerful content discovery and intuitive navigation. Service providers
achieve Web-speed innovation with Espial's flexible, open cloud
software leveraging RDK and HTML5 technologies. This provides
competitive advantage through an immersive and personalized user
experience, seamlessly blending advanced TV services with OTT content.
With customers spanning six continents, Espial is headquartered in
Ottawa, Canada, with research and development centres in Seattle, Montreal, Silicon Valley,
Cambridge and Lisbon, and sales offices in North America, Europe and
Asia.
© 2024 Canjex Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.