Conax and Quadrille Announce Today Partnership to Launch Push-VOD Turnkey Solution

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Conax and Quadrille announced today they have teamed up to bring on the market a combined version of their respective best-selling products: Conax Contego(tm) and Quadrille's QuadriFast Push VOD solution.

Paris, February 01, 2013 - (PressReleasePoint) - Conax and Quadrille announced today they have teamed up to bring on the market a combined version of their respective best-selling products: Conax Contego(tm) and Quadrille's QuadriFast Push VOD solution. The combination of both technologies will enable broadcasters to launch Push-VOD TV services easily, cost effectively and in record time thus providing an unparalleled Return on Investment (ROI).

Quadrille's QuadriFast is an off-the-shelf, end to end solution allowing for VOD content to be pushed over any broadcast network (satellite, terrestrial...). QuadriFast requires no dedicated channel to operate. It uses the existing bandwidth available on the broadcasted channels and auto-adjusts data sending accordingly. QuadriFast seamlessly integrates into existing operator's infrastructures and allows for easy and fast non-linear services deployment thus minimizing both CAPEX and OPEX.

The Conax Contego(tm) portfolio of products, featuring a revolutionary high level of security, enables maximum protection for all valuable content. The Conax Contego(tm) content security is designed to support any distribution technology and a multitude of consumer devices. It is suited both for classical DVB-S/C/T broadcasters as well as for IPTV operators and offers future-proof solutions for multiscreen and over-the-top services. Conax Contego(tm) supports all business models available to the market, such as Subscription, Pay per View, Video on Demand and DRM Control.

Quadrille worked closely with Conax to achieve a seamless integration with Conax PreEncryptor for encrypting all content prior to broadcasting thus fully securing broadcasters' valuable premium content. In addition, cooperation between Quadrille and Cubiware, the Conax long term STB middleware partner, allow for Quadrille's QuadriFast Push-VOD solution to be easily deployable either for brand new projects or for existing Conax customers willing to launch an innovative and nevertheless non- disruptive Push-VOD technology.

"Integrating Quadrille's QuadriFast Push-VOD solutions with Conax Contego(tm) feature portfolio allows Conax and Quadrille to offer operators a highly cost-efficient solution for VOD TV, enabling the addition of new exciting services, driving ARPU growth," said Tom Jahr, EVP Products & Partners, Conax. "The combination of Quadrille's QuadriFast technology with Conax' PreEncryptor further guarantees a perfect premium content protection solution to the operators." "Partnering with a market leader like Conax is a clear differentiator to Quadrille." said Xavier Battas, CEO of Quadrille. "Our customers  will really benefit from a turnkey solution fully protected by Conax Contego(tm) top-otch security system. The benefits brought by the combined Conax-CubiTV-QuadriFast solution will help broadcasters to minimize their investments, reduce their time-to-market while greatly enhancing their subscribers' recruitment, retention and satisfaction."

A first major operator contract is to be announced jointly in the forthcoming weeks.

Conax will be exhibiting at CSTB 2013, Stand #465, Hall 4

About Quadrille:
Quadrille is a French high-tech company focused on Digital TV software and services since 1998. Quadrille initiated its activity by delivering professional services to renowned broadcasters, telcos and STB manufacturers in France. Since 2008 Quadrille designs and actively promotes QuadriFast(tm), a carrier-grade content delivery solution portfolio. QuadriFast(tm) is using Quadrille's fully patented "push technology" to safely achieve the content delivery over a variety of different networks: DTH, DTT, Cable, ISDB, ADSL. Headquartered in downtown Paris, Quadrille promotes its QuadriFast(tm) VOD Solution to all TV operators worldwide in a B to B market approach. Already deployed by Française des Jeux (the French lottery operator) for its country wide retail outlets network, QuadriFas (tm) has also been selected by TDF as part of a VOD pilot scale service over the DTT network. These deployments rank QuadriFast(tm) as the most deployed solution in France. In 2010 Quadrille was awarded the title of innovative Company for its QuadriFast Push VOD and catch-up TV solution by OSEO, the government agency supporting French SMBs development. www.quadrille.frhttp://www.quadrille.fr

About Conax:
Conax provides the future-oriented security solutions and expertise that empower multi-screen digital TV content providers around the globe to deliver premium content over the combined Over-The-Top scenario of broadcast, broadband and connected devices securely and eliminate potential revenue threats. Conax Contego(tm)http://www.conax.com/products-olutions/contego/ portfolio of solutions furnish content providers, cable, satellite, IP, mobile and terrestrial operators with solutions that offer a competitive advantage- reduced hardware costs, easy deployment and upgrade, including the new Conax   Xtend Multiscreen(tm)http://www.conax.com/products-solutions/multiscreen/ together with partners. Conax flagship, Conax Contego(tm), bundles 25 years of pioneering experience into one unique solution to guide operators in navigating and realizing new business models. Through its benchmark policy for security-evaluated client devices and strategic partner network, Conax technology secures content for operators representing 125 million pay TV consumers in 85 countries around the globe.

ISO 9001 & 27001 certified, Conax is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and represented in Russia, Germany, Brazil, USA, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, China, Singapore, with 24/7 Global Support operations in India. Conax is part of Telenor Group who has operations in 11 markets, 33.000 employees, 150 million mobile subscriptions and is among the world's largest mobile operators. Corporate responsibilityhttp://telenor.com/corporate-responsibility/environment-and-climate/.

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