Synamedia Ltd. (previously
Cisco
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's SPVSS business, and formerly NDS Group Ltd., and later
Cisco Videoscape
Cisco Videoscape (formerly NDS Group and currently known as Synamedia) was a majority owned subsidiary of News Corp, which develops software for the pay TV industry (including cable, satellite and others). NDS Group was established in 1988 as an I ...
) is a video technology provider headquartered in
Staines-upon-Thames
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, UK. Its products cover content distribution and delivery, video processing, advanced advertising, broadband solutions, and video security.
History
The company was formed in 1988 as News Datacom in
Israel
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, offering encryption technology for satellite broadcasts. The encryption technology was developed by Israeli cryptographer
Adi Shamir
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and
Amos Fiat
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Fiat earned his Ph. ...
. In 1992, the company was acquired by News Corporation and renamed
News Digital Systems (NDS). In 2012, Cisco Systems Inc. acquired NDS.
It became the foundation of Cisco's Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business.
In May 2018,
Permira
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acquired the SPVSS business from Cisco.
The acquisition included Cisco's Infinite Video platform, the former
Scientific Atlanta
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video processing portfolio, cloud digital video recording, video processing, video security, and video middleware.
In October 2018, the business was launched as Synamedia.
Synamedia leadership includes Paul Segre, CEO; Bijal Patel, CFO; Nick Thexton, CTO; Yael Fainaro, EVP of Security; Jean-Francois Pigeon, EVP of Sales & Marketing and Julien Signes, EVP and General Manager, Video Network. The company has offices in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Belgium, Israel, India, and China.
Synamedia's clients include satellite and cable
pay TV
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providers, media companies, and others involved in direct-to-consumer
OTT distribution. It has over 200 pay TV and media customers.
They include
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,
Bharti Airtel
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Comcast
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Cox
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Disney
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,
Etisalat
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Foxtel
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Liberty Global
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Verizon
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Vodafone
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, and
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In January 2020, Synamedia entered a partnership with Pearl TV to join the Phoenix Model Market Initiative.
In August 2021, Synamedia acquired ContentArmor, a company that develops forensic watermarking solutions for the media and entertainment industry.
In May 2022, it was announced that Synamedia had acquired the
UK-headquartered TV and OTT content discovery
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platform, Utelly. In July 2022, Synamedia acquired Quortex, a cloud-based streaming video processing provider.
Products
Synamedia's platforms for cable, satellite, and IPTV include Foundation for broadcast and hybrid solutions, and the cloud-based Infinite platform. In September 2021, Synamedia announced pre-integrated security and business solutions support for Android TV on its Infinite platform.
In 2019, Synamedia released its Credentials Sharing and Fraud Insight product. The product enables pay TV partners and OTT companies to track and prevent piracy and password-sharing.
In April 2021, Synamedia announced Gravity, a managed service that offers broadband and video capabilities to operators and service providers for their small to medium business (SMB) and residential customers.
The Synamedia Video Network portfolio includes Digital Content Manager (DCM) which transitions distribution architectures to an IP-based virtualized video processing environment.
In May 2020, Synamedia launched a ATSC 3.0 Receiver which can function as both an RF and IP receiver. The receiver is in use today with Fox Television Stations in Orlando, FL.
In October 2019,
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began using the DCM platform.
The Synamedia virtualized DCM with Smart Rate Control and Automation provides bandwidth distribution, storage capabilities and High Definition viewing experiences for live and time-shifted ABR streaming. The Synamedia Video Network Service Manager is a micro-services-based platform that helps operators and video producers quickly update their programming line-ups and bundled offers. The Converged Headend is designed to help pay-TV providers transition to software-based services, and can be deployed on premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.
In April 2021, Synamedia released Clarissa, which analyzes critical behavioral and consumption insights for pay-TV and OTT services. Synamedia Iris, an addressable advertising for broadcast, IP, OTT and Hybrid, was announced in August 2020.
Synamedia, in partnership with Sky, has developed a personalized ad targeting platform, AdSmart, which serves TV advertisements to households based on their profiles.
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References
Digital television
Digital Video Broadcasting
Mass media companies of the United Kingdom
Permira companies
Mass media companies established in 1988
1988 establishments in Israel