Telia is to replace the traditional Conditional Access (CA) system on its Telia Play OTT service in Norway with castLabs’ Widevine CA managed service.
Although CA has been the required technology to protect broadcast or multicast content, but castLabs argues that this is difficult to maintain due to its “specific legacy infrastructure”.
Telia’s OTT service includes various TV channels from a number of popular broadcasters including Discovery, Eurosport and MTV.
In the first phase of deployments, Telia has migrated its current CAS system, enabling license deliveries and Android TV devices to support Widevine CAS. This has also enabled advanced use-cases such as group licensing, key rotation, and renewals for optimized license delivery, lower channel change latency, and improved security.
“castLabs’ solution has fitted into our product strategy since 2016 when we started our first OTT project. Now the collaboration has extended even further and its product and expertise have been proven to effectively support our TV service content security strategy,” says Stein Ivar Nilsen, Video Acquisition & Distribution Manager at Telia. “The flexibility and extension of castLabs’ DRMtoday cloud service and its professional services allowed us to converge our PayTV CAS, and OTT DRM requirements into one single solution. castLabs provided us strong support and confidence during the whole Widevine CAS migration process.”
Telia chose to deploy Synamedia’s virtual Digital Content Manager (vDCM) headend featuring a DVB SimulCrypt-enabled scrambler integrated with castLabs’ Widevine CAS ECM Generator, and vDCM packager integrated with castLabs’ DRMtoday multi-DRM for hybrid system support.
