CHESEAUX, Switzerland -- NAGRA, the Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.S) digital TV business and the world's leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, announced today that its QuickStart Hybrid solution is enabling a combined over-the-top (OTT) and digital terrestrial television (DTT) offering for Vodafone España, S.A.U. (“Vodafone Spain”), a provider of unified communications services including voice, messaging, mobile data and fixed broadband services.

NAGRA’s end-to-end QuickStart Hybrid allows Vodafone Spain fixed line and mobile customers to enjoy a line-up of premium OTT TV content offered by a third party (Canal+ Yomvi) on the device of their choice – whether on TVs, personal computers or mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets – while providing access to a selection of DTT channels which will launch later this year. Vodafone Spain’s new offering, called Vodafone Box, delivers advanced third party (Canal+ Yomvi) services such as live TV, subscription VOD, transactional VOD, catch-up TV and a new user interface bundled in a SmarDTV HD set-top box.

NAGRA’s QuickStart pre-integrated packages (Broadcast, OTT, Hybrid, Media Server & Gateway) encompass all the major solution components that are required in order to deliver an exciting range of value-added services and TV features including UI-UEX, EPG, live TV, PVR, nPVR, catch-up, live TV pause and rewind, start-over, VOD, companion screen interactivity, social TV and applications. Its components are NAGRA anyCAST content protection and studio-approved DRM, OpenTV 5 HTML5 connectware, NAGRA’s Gravity Edge reference user interface and NAGRA MediaLive Multiscreen, pre-integrated in a SmarDTV HD set-top box.

Kudelski Group