News Datacom
Changing the way people are entertained and informed
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| Fate | Acquired by Cisco Systems |
| Predecessor | NDS Group Ltd. |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Staines, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Dave Habiger, CEO Abe Peled, Executive Chairman |
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VideoGuard Conditional Access Videoguard Connect DRM MediaHighway - Set Top Box Software Broadband IPTV XTV Digital Video Recorders DVRs) OTT Unified Headend Gateways Interactive TV |
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Number of employees
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5,500 as of Mar 2012 (4,200 technical) |
| Parent | Cisco Systems |
| Subsidiaries |
Jungo CastUp SiVenture |
| Website | www.nds.com |
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Footnotes / references
Other statistics: (12/2011)
CA/DRM 125 million pay TV households
Middleware 214 million devices
Cisco Videoscape (Formerly NDS Group Ltd.) is a Cisco-acquired development group, which develops software for the pay TV industry (including cable, satellite and others). NDS Group was established in Israel in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by Cisco in 2012. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom.
Filling The Executive Chairman and CEO roles at NDS is Abe Peled with former CEO Dave Habiger having left in 2012. The company's major product is the VideoGuard conditional access system, which is used by more than 85 leading pay TV operators around the world. NDS technology includes end to end connections for satellite, broadband IPTV, Hybrid, OTT, and EPGs. It has launched VideoGuard Connect, the DRM for Pay-TV, designed to help TV operators to seamlessly extend their pay-TV services to connected media devices, enabling secure ingestion, delivery and consumption of premium content over both managed and OTT networks while maintaining subscription privileges across devices. NDS also provides advanced advertising, professional services and system integration services. New ways to secure content on PCs, tablets, and other devices are displayed at IBC and CES.
Cisco Systems announced the acquisition of the company in March, 2012. It was later acquired successfully and in 2014 its name was changed into Videoscape, becoming a part of Cisco.
The company was established in 1988 as News Datacom (NDC) by Dov Rubin, Jonathan (Yoni) Hashkes, Michael Dick & Yishai Sered - and soon joined by Mickey Cohen & Gershon Baron - in partnership with News Corporation and the Weizmann Institute, a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. The company was based on technology developed by the Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir and his partner Amos Fiat. Shamir and Fiat devised a coding solution for the encryption system used in satellite broadcasts.
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