NAGRA Stamps Broadcom STB Chips

LONDON -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM - News), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced NAGRA NOCS 3 certification on its latest family of leading 40nm set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions. Broadcom's BCM7231 HD IP STB SoC is the first platform in a series of cable, satellite and IP STB SoC solutions to be certified with NAGRA NOCS 3. With NAGRA NOCS 3 support, Broadcom's platforms offer service providers a multi Conditional Access (CA)/ Digital Rights Management (DRM) environment that enables the delivery of secure premium content and services to multiple screens in the home.

"Our NOCS 3 technology supports operators' expanded in-home footprints with an end-to-end secure content delivery system for multi-platform and multiscreen customers. The ability of these SoCs to achieve our highest level of security architecture certification is a testament to Broadcom's leadership in providing secure STB platforms," said Ivan Verbesselt, SVP of Marketing, NAGRA.

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