SUWANEE, Ga., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ARRIS Group
Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS) and NDS today announced their collaboration
on a tightly-integrated solution that will offer service providers
greater choice and customization in the way they deliver seamless
whole home triple-play media experiences to their subscribers. The
joint integration will provide a comprehensive architecture to
accelerate the pace of innovation and the convergence of
traditional pay-TV with Interactive IP Multi-Media Services.
The integration of the ARRIS Media Gateway and Media Player with
NDS' MediaHighway® middleware, VideoGuard Connect™ DRM and the NDS
Snowflake™ user interface is being architected in close
collaboration with several North American cable operators. NDS is
the first 3rd party supplier to integrate its software with the
ARRIS Media Gateway and Media Players.
The ARRIS Media Gateway is a hybrid QAM/IP platform with a
six-tuner HD DVR and 500 Gigabytes of storage. It also includes
DOCSIS® 3.0 high speed data and voice, a four-port Ethernet home
networking router, CableCARD conditional access, plus support for
Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA®) 1.1+ home networking
technology and an option for 802.11n Wi-Fi®. It can connect with
the ARRIS Media Player, a thin client device, and with other
subscriber-owned DLNA®-enabled devices using DTCP-IP encryption
across a home network.
NDS' next-generation middleware, MediaHighway offers subscribers
flexible viewing with the NDS Snowflake user interface, providing
intuitive navigation of content and services, including NDS XTV™
digital video recorder (DVR) functionality that enables time
shifted viewing such as pause, rewind, fast-forward and playback.
The joint integration also incorporates Jungo Panorama™ remote
management technology, which enables better and faster fault
discovery, analysis and resolution and Jungo OpenRG™ residential
gateway software. It includes the NDS Unified Headend™, including
VideoGuard Connect, the DRM for multi-platform pay-TV, which
enables NDS customers to securely and seamlessly deliver premium
pay-TV content to multiple devices inside and outside the home.
"We are excited about the opportunity to work with NDS and
expand the market reach of the ARRIS Media Gateway," said
Bruce McClelland, ARRIS Group
President, Products and Services. "Working together demonstrates
our companies' flexibility and commitment to using innovative
approaches to deliver cable's long-awaited whole home
solution."
"Today's marketplace demands that cable operators deliver the
most robust content package in an elegant and exciting user
experience," said Jesper Knutsson,
NDS VP and General Manager Sales, NDS Americas. "The NDS and ARRIS
software and hardware components of this joint solution come
together behind the award-winning NDS Snowflake user interface to
deliver seamless and mesmerizing whole home experiences for our
customers' subscribers."
About ARRIS
ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing
in the design, engineering and supply of communications and IP
technologies that support broadband services for residential and
business customers around the world. The company supplies broadband
operators with the tools and platforms they need to deliver and
monitor advanced video, data and voice subscriber services,
including whole home video across multiple screens, ultra
high-speed data, personalized advertising and carrier-grade
telephony. Headquartered near Atlanta, in Suwanee,
Georgia, USA, ARRIS has R&D centers in Beaverton, OR; Chicago, IL; Cork,
Ireland; Kirkland, WA;
Redwood City, CA; Shenzhen, China; State College, PA; Tel Aviv, Israel; Wallingford, CT and Waltham, MA, and operates support and sales
offices throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products and
services can be found at www.arrisi.com.
About NDS
NDS Group Ltd. creates the technologies and applications that
enable pay-TV operators to securely deliver digital content to TV
STBs (set-top boxes), DVRs (digital video recorders), PCs, mobiles
and other multimedia devices. Over 90 of the world's leading pay-TV
platforms rely on NDS solutions to protect and enhance their
business. NDS' VideoGuard® is the world's market-leading content
and service protection solution, deployed in 133 million pay-TV
households. VideoGuard conditional access (CA) and digital rights
management (DRM) technologies safeguard pay-TV service revenues
exceeding $50 billion. NDS
middleware, which enables a host of advanced services for
subscribers, has been deployed on 226 million devices. NDS DVR
technology, centered around XTV™, is a leader in the global
industry with 49 million units deployed. (As of 30th April, 2012).
Headquartered in the UK, with over 5000 employees, NDS remains
committed to investing in technology and development with over 75%
of its employees dedicated to pioneering work at development
centres in France, India, Israel, Korea, UK and US.
NDS Group Ltd. is a private company owned by the Permira Funds
and News Corporation. See www.nds.com for more information.
SOURCE ARRIS Group, Inc.