SecureMedia and GoBackTV Announce Joint IPTV-Over-Cable Customer Win

Triple Play specialist, H & B Communications, Inc. offers its existing cable TV customers expanded IP digital entertainment, protected by the award-winning Encryptonite One™ System CA/DRM

OLYMPIA, LONDON, UK — IPTV World Forum — SecureMedia, the technology leader in open content protection software for secure video and multimedia delivery over IP networks, and GoBackTV, the innovative supplier of digital video headend and edge solutions announced today the integration of SecureMedia’s Encryptonite ONE™ System CA/DRM (conditional access/digital rights management) technology with GoBackTV’s award-nominated RetroVue® System that enables cable operators to dynamically and affordably provide subscribers with their own personal television channels. Adopting this innovative “Secure IPTV over Cable” solution is H & B Communications, Inc., a provider of local and long distance telephone, cable TV, Internet, and voice mail services in Kansas, USA. Now H & B Communications can offer their subscribers an expanded digital channel lineup as well as a wealth of IP stream-based personal-TV applications, including Startover, Lookback, time shifting, VoD and network PVR.

“We promised our cable customers that we will be ever vigilant at expanding and improving our entertainment services,” said Rob Koch, President and General Manager, H & B Communications, Inc. ” Now with GoBackTV’s RetroVue System and the content protection from SecureMedia, we can expand our entertainment channels capacity and offer interactive on-demand services to our subscribers without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades. This has proven to be the perfect solution.”

The RetroVue System encompasses a suite of versatile components, comprising a high-density edgeQAM, a high ingestion-rate video server, an ASI-to-Gigabit Ethernet IP streamer, HTML-based middleware, and a CMTS-bypass solution for IPTV-over-cable.

“We are happy to have SecureMedia as a partner and with CodeConnect™, their simplified integration development platform, we were able to expedite the addition of the Encryptonite ONE System’s robust content security to our MyRV Portal HTML-based middleware,” said Dave Baran, president of GoBackTV.

“With the need for improved network efficiency and the ability to offer more dynamic services, cable operators are now recognizing the benefits and advantages of affordable and secure IPTV services over cable”, says Fred Ellis, COO at SecureMedia. “Our valued partnership with GoBackTV now provides cable operators with a ready-to-go, Encryptonite ONE™ System-protected ‘Secure IPTV over Cable’ solution that is efficient, affordable and extremely scalable.”

Both SecureMedia and GoBackTV will be exhibiting at the IPTV World Forum 2009, London, 25 – 27 March: SecureMedia (Stand 358) and GoBackTV (Stand 322).