TC TrustCenter and CI Plus announce significant early adoption of Standard

CI Plus Standard Makes Bold First Steps Into the Market

HAMBURG — CI Plus, the CE industry backed technology for allowing secure delivery of premium pay TV services to Integrated Digital TV’s, Set Top Boxes and Personal Video Recorders, has announced the initial details of the take up of the technology.

TC TrustCenter, the leading On Demand PKI services provider based in Germany, today announced that the new CI Plus system has made huge strides into the market since it went live in January 2009. TC TrustCenter acts as the exclusive Trust and Certificate Authority for CI Plus.

In the first two months since launch at least eight major consumer electronics manufacturers and three CI Plus CAM manufacturers have licensed the technology and certified products.

TC TrustCenter has issued more than 3 million CI Plus Device certificates to those early adopters in less than 3 months.

In addition TC TrustCenter reports significant interest and intention to sign up from a large number of other organisations.

“These numbers indicate a real market demand for CI Plus and demonstrate that the technology is already on its way to becoming a de facto industry standard,” states Laurent Jabiol Deputy CEO and Founder of Neotion, one of the founder members of the CI Plus LLP, the industry forum who created the specification.

Keith Potter, CEO of Digital TV Labs, the authorised CI Plus Test facility, comments: “Digital TV Labs is hugely encouraged by the initial market response to CI Plus technology, and we are delighted to be appointed as the first CI Plus test centre and associated with this new technology launch. Since opening our CI Plus test facility in January 2009, we have already seen a significant number of host and CAM manufacturers undergo successful certification.”

Dr. Artur Heil, Director of Sales and Marketing, EMEA at TC TrustCenter GmbH, adds: “This take up has exceeded all expectation and we are hugely optimistic about the future potential of this technology and our ability to deliver high volumes as the adoption grows.”