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NDS (News - Alert), a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan have announced a partnership to demonstrate the secure live transmission of TV content over mobile WiMAX.

The ITRI stand at the WiMAX (News - Alert) Forum Showcase and Conference, which is currently meeting in Taipei (October 22-26) will showcase this application. The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16/ETSI (News - Alert) HiperMAN standard.

This system allows mobile WiMAX operators to offer premium mobile television over a two-way IEEE 802.16e network. This allows them to maintain content rights and protecting service revenues. Mobile operators can operate a variety of business models by deploying this solution and generate additional revenues and profits.

Members of the WiMAX Forum attending the organization’s conference and exhibition hosted in Taipei by ITRI can witness many features like launching of the TV client, browsing of the EPG, and channel changes, delivery of the live video signal over ITRI’s mobile WiMAX network to laptop PCs and business models and DRM features, including subscription and pay-per-view.

Dr. Sheng-Lin Chou, Deputy General Director of the Information & Communications Research (News - Alert) Laboratory at ITRI said, “The WiMAX TV demonstration with NDS proves the capacity of WiMAX to provide the services that consumers want. We fully expect TV to be a major feature of the mobile WiMAX networks that will be commercially deployed from next year.”

NDS and ITRI are showing both live TV channels and recorded video content on laptop PCs with the help of the WiMAX IEEE (News - Alert) 802.16e standard and ITRI’s mobile WiMAX network. The services provided include an electronic service guide (ESG) with channel and program information, an efficient delivery mechanism for video, and a TV client application. The operators can enforce content rights and apply various business models to the content that is being delivered, including subscription, pay-per-view, pay-per-time, and others with the integrated Digital Rights Management (DRM) offering.

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Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

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