mPhase Technologies integrates Latens CAS with its IPTV platform

June 6th, 2006 – mPhase Technologies has announced general availability of an integrated Conditional Access feature to its flagship IPTV platform, the mPhase TV+ System , incorporating content and revenue protection software from Latens.

Latens’ latest generation dynamic Conditional Access System (CAS) is a pure software security solution that protects operators’ content and revenues.

“Conditional access in an all-software form is a cost-efficient and time saving feature for service providers,” says Phil Thompson, mPhase Technologies’ executive vice president, product management. “The open architecture of the TV+ System is specifically designed to incorporate value-added capabilities like Latens CAS as part of our carrier-class turnkey offer to telecommunications operators looking to improve their return on investment in broadband technology with IPTV services.”

The Latens CAS utilises a downloadable software strategy, offering lower cost security than that possible with proprietary smartcards. Because it is standards-compliant, the software does not lock the operator to a single set-top box hardware supplier.

“It’s particularly pleasing to have mPhase as a partner, as it has the same philosophy and approach for how to best serve IPTV operators as ourselves,” says Jeremy Thorp, CEO at Latens Systems. “A major part of this approach is the belief that it is crucial for the operator to be able to cost-effectively get ‘under the hood’ of the IPTV platform to continually enhance the IPTV consumer experience. This is exactly what Latens and mPhase are enabling through the Latens secured mPhase TV+ System.”