Designed to make secure pay TV channels easy to establish and run affordably, the CA system simplifies the licensing process and reduces service providers' operating costs, supporting 1080i HD and 4K-UHD resolutions, as well as both SDR and HDR.

Widevine is a proprietary digital rights management technology from Google used across Android MediaDrm, Android TV and other consumer electronic devices. Compatible with various encryption schemes, it is designed to restrict consumer access to distributed video content on the basis of rules defined by content owners or rights holders.

"TCAS for Widevine integrates easily and robustly with legacy headend infrastructure to create a complete and fully scalable solution," said Tolka CEO Michael Day. "It eliminates the royalties and hardware overheads associated with traditional CAS services. We have built on our long experience as a producer of conditional access system technology to eliminate the need for bespoke system development and configuration which have hitherto been required by content owners or rights holders seeking to establish a new pay TV platform. That achievement in turn minimizes the time and financial outlay required to initiate a new service and to operate it."

TCAS for Widevine licensing is supervised via a dedicated graphic user interface allowing relevant aspects of the process to be managed as efficiently as possible. In particular, it performs securely and effectively with Android devices, removing the need for a third-party set top box or customer-specific access cards, according to Tolka. Hybrid set-top box/OTT platforms are supported, with digital rights management of OTT streamed content provided to protect against piracy.