NDS Group

NDS Group Ltd.. is a company that belongs to Cisco Systems and Digital Rights Management and Conditional Access Systems develops and sells. Meanwhile covers NDS CAS beside all areas of digital TV solutions from. These include in particular the middleware Media Highway, the IPTV solution Synamedia and interactive TV applications and mobile solutions.

Headquartered in Staines in the UK, also there is an important research center (NDS Technologies Israel or shortly NDS Tech) in Jerusalem, Israel, who specializes in hardware and software for smart cards. Further development sites are particularly in Staines, UK and Paris, France as the center of activities in middleware.

Products

• VideoGuard: is considered the most common DVB -CAS, yet uncompromised
• Media Highway: Middleware solutions for digital STB and digital TV systems
• Synamedia: IPTV solutions for broadband infrastructure
• MVideoGuard: Digital Rights Management and CA system for mobile TV services
• XTV: Digital video recorder solutions for personalized TV
• Value @ TV: Interactive TV applications and games applications such as System Bets

• VideoCrypt: former CAS for analog TV; no longer in sales with a worldwide transition to digital television

History

The company was founded in 1989 as News Datacom (NDC ), later renamed News Digital Systems (NDS ); originally developed to CA systems for the sister company British Sky Broadcasting, these were later sold to other providers.

Competition

Competitors:

• Irdeto, Netherlands: Irdeto, Irdeto 2
• Kudelski Group, Switzerland: Nagravision