Excaf Telecom Senegal secures future grow with content protection from Conax Contego ...

Excaf Telecom Senegal secures future growth with content protection from Conax Contego Broadcast

Excaf Telecom upgrading to Conax Contego Broadcast conditional access solution for securing pay-TV content revenues and operational roadmap

CabSat 2013, Dubai, March 12th: Conax, global provider of leading solutionsfor securing multi-device and digital TV services, announced today that Dakar-based Excaf Telecom, one of Senegal's leading media companies, has upgraded to the nex-gen Conax Contego Broadcast content protection solution, reconfirming its commitment to security partner Conax. Excaf Telecom deployed its first Conax solution in 2005. The Conax Contego Broadcast upgrade is providing Excaf Telecom with a future-oriented, highly secure platform that supports advanced, flexible, interactive on-demand services and enables a bouquet of rich features, viewing options and services for subscribers, while ensuring that Excaf Telecompay-content revenues are secure.

The new solution, complimented by Conax' advisory role, will help position and secure the Senegalese operator's regional roadmap into the future. The Conax Contego Broadcast solution provides Excaf Telecom with total, state-of-the-art security for one-way operations and comprehensive support for Subscription, Pairing, Fingerprinting and Messaging, with optional support for DRM control and Pay-per-View. Introduction of new consumer offerings such as Video-on-Demand and advanced multiscreen services can be smoothly integrated to the existing platform to support future growth demands.

-We are very pleased with the ease of working with a professional company like Conax, the excellent support and personal service provided by the Conax team and commitment to ensuring smooth operations, confirms Mr. Sidy Diagne, Directeur Gnral, Excaf Telecom. We are confident that Contego Broadcast security solution will play a strong role in positioning Excaf Telecom into the future.

-The new Conax Contego solution will enable a smooth link to remote sites around Senegal asan easy way to administrate subscribers and maintain smooth pay-TV operations. Conax offers an excellent security record, flexible solutions and provides a forward-thinking policy towards partners, allowing us to select from a wide range of Conax security-certified devices and vendors that best suit our operational needs.

-Conax is proud that Excaf Telecom has chosen the Conax Contego Broadcast content security solution for securing their consumer offerings to the next level, confirms Saad Mouneimne, Director Area sales ME&A, Conax. The new platform will enable further expansion in Africa, integration of new exciting consumer services and positioning for operational migration to digital operations.

The state-of-the art Conax Contego Broadcast solution is easy to use, navigate and configure, and provides Excaf Telecom with an intuitive management system that includes step-by-step wizards, diagnostics, reporting and extensive audit logging. A comprehensive monitoring system checks the state of the installation and the hardware platform, providing detailed statistics so that Excaf Telecom has an accurate overview and full control of all their operations.

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About Excaf Telecom(www.excaf.com)

Excaf-Telecom, one of Senegal's leading private media companies. Owned byIsmaila Sidy Ibrahima Diagne, President Directeur de General, Excaf Telecom operates some of the country's most successful radio stations including Dunya FM, Soxna FM, Love FM and Al Hamdoulilah FM. Excaf Telecom has been a long-time MMDS service operator in Senegal and has recently launched a new DTT service. The latter offers a local 24 hour music channel on channel 74 using a digital decoder.

About Conax (www.conax.com)

Conax provides the future-oriented security solutions and expertise that empower multi-screen digital TV content providers around the globe to deliver premium content over the combined Over-The-Top scenario of broadcast, broadband and connected devices securely and eliminate potential revenue threats. Conax Contego portfolio of solutions furnish content providers, cable, satellite, IP, mobile and terrestrial operators with solutions that offer a competitive advantage reduced hardware costs, easy deployment and upgrade, including the new Conax Xtend Multiscreen together with partners. Conax flagship, Conax Contego, bundles 25 years of pioneering experience into one unique solution to guide operators in navigating and realizing new business models. Through its benchmark policy for security-evaluated client devices and strategic partner network, Conax technology secures content for operators representing 125 million pay TV consumers in over 85 countries around the globe.

ISO 9001 & 27001 certified, Conax is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and represented in Russia, Germany, Brazil, USA, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, China, Singapore, with 24/7 Global Support operations in India. Conax is part of Telenor Group who has operations in 11 markets, 33.000 employees, 150 million mobile subscriptions and is among the world's largest mobile operators. Corporate responsibility. Follow Conax on Twitter

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