Harmonic, Nagra and Abertis Telecom promote the first commercial multi-screen OTT MPEG-DASH service

The multi-screen service is already being used by Spanish broadcasters for their HbbTV-based services and will be enhanced to become what is expected to be the world's first commercial deployment of MPEG-DASH.

Harmonic announced at IBC 2012 that it has partnered with Nagra to drive an innovative cloud-based OTT video service for broadcasters and pay TV service providers offered jointly by the Spanish telecommunications infrastructure operator Abertis Telecom and Nagra.

The multi-screen service is already being used by Spanish broadcasters for their HbbTV-based services and will be enhanced to become what is expected to be the world's first commercial deployment of MPEG-DASH, a standards-based adaptive streaming protocol that supports multiple DRM systems through a common encryption, as well as the first deployment of HbbTV 1.5.

As part of a fully integrated multi-screen solution, Harmonic's ProMedia suite and Nagra MediaLive Multiscreen solution provide Abertis Telecom-Nagra's cloud service with an integrated video infrastructure capable of delivering high-quality OTT applications, including live, VOD and time-shifted broadcasting, to televisions, computers, tablets, smartphones, set-top boxes and other connected IP devices.
To ensure a successful implementation, Nagra and Harmonic work closely to define and implement the necessary interfaces between Harmonic's video processing solutions and Nagra's master DRM key servers, allowing the service to protect content at the same time with multiple digital rights management systems, including Nagra PRM, Microsoft PlayReady and Marlin.

Leveraging the multi-DRM capability of the Nagra MediaLive Multiscreen, the Abertis Telecom-Nagra cloud service can support a wide range of connected devices while reducing the total cost of ownership. Nagra's end-to-end solution includes the flexible MediaLive Service platform for digital asset management and service delivery; award-winning digital rights management (Nagra PRM) technology; Nagra Media Player, a sophisticated media player that delivers securely open device services, and the MediaLive-Ninja ‖ Client Framework, a flexible cross-device application framework that accelerates the deployment of innovative services to multiple connected devices.