Broadcom Announces Industry's First NAGRA NOCS 3 Certification - Fueling Multiscreen TV

LONDON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IPTV World Forum 

News Highlights:

• Supports the very latest in security and content protection from NAGRA, a leading provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions
• Enables the secure delivery of premium content and services to multiple TVs and devices in the home
• Reduces set-top box power consumption, helping service providers achieve their environmental obligations

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced NAGRA NOCS 3 certification on its latest family of leading 40nm set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions. Broadcom's BCM7231 HD IP STB SoC is the first platform in a series of cable, satellite and IP STB SoC solutions to be certified with NAGRA NOCS 3. With NAGRA NOCS 3 support, Broadcom's platforms offer service providers a multi Conditional Access (CA)/ Digital Rights Management (DRM) environment that enables the delivery of secure premium content and services to multiple screens in the home. For more news from Broadcom, visit our Newsroom.

Key Facts

• Broadcom's 40nm high performance and energy-efficient STB SoC solutions, now certified with NAGRA NOCS 3 support, also feature advanced whole-home connectivity that includes DLNA®, MoCA® and Ethernet, coupled with full HD 3DTV and scalable video codec (SVC) capabilities, and an OpenGL® ES 2.0 graphics processing unit for advanced 3D user interface and games.
  • Broadcom's high performance BCM7231 HD STB SoC delivers advanced IP and broadcast digital entertainment services for both client-server and standalone deployments. This allows operators to cost effectively expand advanced interactive digital and IPTV services including the Android ecosystem, browser-based applications or SVC-delivered 1080p full HDTV quality broadcasting.
  • With features similar to the BCM7231 but at a lower price point, the BCM7230 and BCM7229 HD STB SoC platforms enable smaller form factors and lower power consumption while also supporting 3DTV with MVC, OpenGL ES 2.0 and mainstream 1080p full HD quality video.
• NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the world's leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, developed NOCS 3 to protect service providers' investment in consumer devices.
• NOCS is used both by NAGRA's conditional access system (NAGRA Media Access) and NAGRA's digital right managements system (NAGRA DRM) to provide an underlying "hardware root-of-trust" that underpins the security of these solutions.
• NOCS 3 is the latest generation of NAGRA's on-chip security products.
  • NOCS 3 moves some security constraints from the device to the chipset, reducing the cost and complexity of developing secure set-top boxes. 
  • NOCS 3 includes features that enable a fast and secure resume-from-standby, limiting power consumption and meeting new environmental standards.
  • NOCS 3 supports a true multi CA/DRM environment, enabling service providers to deploy additional third party DRMs and CAs alongside NAGRA's own solutions.
• Combined with NAGRA products, NOCS brings the full breadth of security "into the device, on the device and out of the device."

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Quotes

Ivan Verbesselt, SVP of Marketing, NAGRA

"Our NOCS 3 technology supports operators' expanded in-home footprints with an end-to-end secure content delivery system for multi-platform and multiscreen customers. The ability of these SoCs to achieve our highest level of security architecture certification is a testament to Broadcom's leadership in providing secure STB platforms."

Dan Marotta, Broadcom's Executive Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Communications Group:

"Broadcom is excited to be the first silicon provider to achieve certification on the most advanced NAGRA standard. This is the first step of many that we plan to take with NAGRA to roll-out NOCS 3 capable devices."

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments.  With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

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