Eagle Selects Latens

BELFAST, Ireland -- Latens Systems, the leading provider of IPTV Conditional Access (CA), today announced that Eagle Broadband, Inc. (AMEX:EAG), a national provider of broadband, Internet Protocol (IP) and communications technology and services for the United States of America, has selected the Latens IP CAS Conditional Access solution to secure its advanced IPTV services. Eagle, a pioneer for IPTV and IP-based Set-Top Boxes (STBs) within the U.S., will offer its subscribers more than 200 channels of secured video services that include Pay-TV, high-definition (HD), personal-video-recording (PVR), video-on-demand (VOD) and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD).

Eagle selected Latens IP CAS after months of thorough assessment of all IPTV conditional access technologies available in the market today. The IP CAS’ ability to adapt to the most robust network architectures and Latens’ proactive approach to security were cited as key reasons for the selection. The executives at Eagle also cited Latens’ IP CAS’s adaptability when integrating with their Linux-based STBs.

“Our customers demand the best and latest video content available in the market today,” said Brian Morrow, COO of Eagle Broadband. “And our content providers demand a robust CAS solution. We found that Latens’ solution offered the best option in the IPTV CAS market today, and that its encryption architecture could adapt easily to our Eagle engineered STBs."

“Eagle challenged us to prove that our solution can adapt and scale to their robust network architecture within certain market-driven cost constraints. We are pleased to have been chosen over our competitors,” said Dean Kashlan, GM and VP of Latens. "Eagle Broadband will be able to encrypt all content at their super head-end in Miami. The signal will remain 100% encrypted throughout the network, and only be decrypted at their Linux-based STBs wherever they may be in the U.S. The Latens IP CAS is especially well designed to accommodate Eagle’s high volume of IPTV subscribers.”

Latens Systems Ltd.

Eagle Broadband (Amex: EAG)