Tolka has recently announced the completion of a television content protection system for one of southeast Asia’s largest gaming broadcasters. The installation is based on TCAS for Contribution. It consists on a re-developed version of the Tolka Conditional Access System. It replaces the network’s third-party signal content protection technology which had been hacked and was being retransmitted across multiple audience regions.

“Secure transmission is important for all subscription-based broadcast networks, especially in the gaming sector,” comments Tolka’s business development manager, Alex Day. “The hacked platform had been using encryption algorithms originally developed to protect microwave feeds sent from TV reporters’ newsgathering vehicles back to their studio headquarters. The newly installed TCAS for Contribution gives channel operators independent control of each contribution feed server. Multiple feeds can be sent to each decryption module, ensuring flexibility and the added protection of delivery channel redundancy.”

TCAS can be deployed by TV broadcasters as a primary conditional access system or used in simulcrypt applications. TCAS for Contribution is one of four versions available, the others being TCAS for DVB, TCAS for IPTV, and TCAS for Apps. TCAS for DVB, TCAS for IPTV are both hardware based and use a Tolka-specific secure chipset. TCAS for Apps is software based and can run on generic CPUs. The solution can be operated in conjunction with multi-room and multi-screen environments, sending encrypted content to multiple devices within a home network and delivering content to multiple network services. For mobile or tablet devices, TCAS acts through a central subscription in the home to monitor content viewing from multiple devices.