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NAGRA NexGuard for Pay‑TV and Streaming

Embed ultra-performant forensic digital watermarking into your pay‑TV and streaming content with NexGuard. Deter piracy, protect profit. Secure your VoD and live sports.


Digital Watermarking for Premium Content Protection

NAGRAVISION solutions have been built for the complete range of watermarking needs across the media and entertainment industry – whether you’re a video service operator in pay‑TV or in the direct-to-consumer space. 

NexGuard is modular and easily integrable into your existing architecture and workflows. It neatly addresses piracy threats with both server-side and client-side versions and enables you to swiftly determine the source of content leaks. The technology is imperceptible as well as indelible. It integrates so seamlessly, that – if it weren’t for its performance – you wouldn’t know it was there.


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Your Go-To Protection for Premium Content

NAGRAVISION has worked closely with industry clients and partners for over 30 years to develop and hone a digital watermarking solution that responds to every use case.

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Protection

Full client-side and server-side protection

Security

Imperceptible and impossible to remove

Quality

Zero impact on content quality

Workflow

Zero glitches to workflow

Integration

Easily integrated

Automation

Automated lock-down processes built in

Compliance

Complies with Hollywood and MovieLab’s content protection requirements

Customers

Protects the business model of live sports and events


Premium Content Protection

Pay-TV for Set-Top Boxes
Distribution Paths
Streaming on Edge for Servers and CDNs
OTT Streaming
Detection Services

For New and Legacy STBs

The NexGuard Pay-TV and Streaming solution embeds a subscriber-specific forensic watermark in a managed pay-TV client device.

The technology is supported by all the major chipset vendors and requires no additional video processing on the head-end side.

An ability to determine the source of a content leak quickly and efficiently is critical to fighting commercial piracy, not least because it enables you to take appropriate anti-piracy action.

The NexGuard Pay-TV and Streaming solution is architected to be robust and can be deployed across a wide range of devices, including HD, 4k/UHD, and HDR. It protects across all output interfaces – both analog and digital – and from any video source: broadcast, video on demand, and OTT. The solution is supported by the cloud-based NexGuard Detection Services for automated, blind detection.

NexGuard Network ID

This forensic watermarking solution traces the distribution path of any pirated content. Business decisions on anti-piracy actions and budget become more informed. They’ll be based on concrete facts, rather than opinions, about which distribution systems, paths, and affiliates the content is pirated from.

The solution is seamless and flexible, designed for linear broadcast and live events. It is approved and integrated by playout centers and operators in their infrastructure and equipment. The solution also facilitates simple and rapid detection. From as little as three minutes of video, piracy can be detected.

Forensic Watermarking for ABR Streaming With CDNs

NAGRA NexGuard Streaming is a server-side solution, pre-integrated with streaming servers and CDNs. It embeds session-specific forensic watermarking for both OTT VOD and OTT live channels.

NexGuard Streaming works with any OTT streaming device and client application, removing the need for any device-side integration. It scales easily to millions of concurrent sessions with CDN caching and works with all common streaming formats and DRMs.

Forensic Watermarking Client for OTT Applications

NexGuard QuickMark provides client-side embedding of forensic watermarks in open OTT streaming devices (e.g., Browser on PCs, iOS or Android mobiles and tablets, sticks, OTT box).

The solution has been optimized for live sport events where every second counts.

It supports your efforts to combat piracy and shut down the source by accelerating detection – to within seconds or minutes after a content leak.

Automated Detection of Forensic Watermarks

The NexGuard Detection Service is a cloud-based service, provided by NAGRA

VISION, for the detection of NexGuard forensic watermarks.

The service is fast, highly scalable, and fully automated. It reads the invisible watermark as well as the licensee data and enables a rapid anti-piracy response across on-demand or live content. It is popular among customers who require support for occasional or continuous live detection, in conjunction with other anti-piracy services.

Eventive

Eventive launches advanced anti-piracy technology, adapting to serve a growing demand for virtual cinema using NAGRA Multi-DRM and NexGuard Forensic Watermarking from the Active Streaming Protection toolkit.

RAI

Find out how RAI, a leading public broadcaster and one of the major content producers in Italy, became the first free-to-air broadcaster to adopt forensic watermarking to fight piracy.

SK Broadband

Learn how SK Broadband, one of the largest Internet providers in South Korea, selected the NAGRA NexGuard Pay-TV to protect premium and 4K content on its IPTV set-top boxes (STBs).


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