International Datacasting Corporation and Irdeto Sign License Agreement for Cyphercast Encryption Technology

January 22, 2008

Source: Irdeto, International Datacasting Corporation

International Datacasting Corporation announced today that the company has entered into an agreement to license Irdeto's Cyphercast IP encryption technology. Under the terms of the agreement, the ongoing sales and development of the Cyphercast IP product as well as support for Cyphercast customers will transfer to IDC.

Additionally, this agreement enables IDC to combine the Cyphercast IP encryption technology with the Irdeto PIsys and FlexSMS products under a pre- existing reseller agreement where-by IDC would be the only supplier of Cyphercast IP Conditional Access Solutions.

Cyphercast is an industry-leading secure smart card- or SIM-based conditional access system that is used to provide Internet Protocol (IP) level encryption and decryption of both file-based content and streaming media. As part of their SuperFlex broadband satellite networking solution offering, IDC has provided full end-to-end secure networks to their global customer base by integrating the Cyphercast IP encryption and subscriber management systems into their broadcast/uplink facilities and by providing a full line of advanced multimedia satellite receivers with built-in Cyphercast IP decryption. The combination simplifies network deployment and expansion by providing a proven and ready-to-install encryption and conditional access system for secure DVB-S and DVB-S2 broadband satellite broadcast distribution.

The licensing of the Cyphercast IP technology from Irdeto allows IDC to improve the products of the corporation with a higher level of integration and customer support along with providing the performance levels demanded for enterprise-class satellite network applications, such as IPTV, that require an IP-level security solution.

"We are pleased and proud of our continued relationship with Irdeto. By strengthening our relationship through the signing of this agreement, our customers know that they are getting a world-class security solution that is an integral component of the system that they are purchasing from IDC. This allows our customers to feel confident in the knowledge that their valuable business information and multimedia content is secure and that their critical revenue streams are protected. These integrated solutions are used throughout our IPTV, streaming video, financial/news and digital cinema applications to ensure that content is delivered to only authorized customers in a secure and timely manner," said Ron Clifton, President and CEO of IDC.

"This content security solution provides operators of IP-based satellite networks with a proven conditional access system," said Doug Lowther, Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Irdeto. "Integrating Irdeto CA within IDC Superflex IP receivers allows operators to rapidly install fully-equipped receiver sites without security concerns or unnecessary delays encountered during the integration process."

This agreement builds on a decade-long relationship between Irdeto and IDC. Together, the two companies have developed and deployed some of the largest enterprise IP-based satellite networks around the world.

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