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NexGuard and Nevion partner to identify distributions paths of live broadcasts with Network ID watermarking
September 2017 by Marc Jacob
NexGuard, a Kudelski company and the specialize provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, and Nevion announced their collaboration to implement the Network ID product.
NexGuard’s Network ID solution inserts a unique invisible and robust forensic watermark in primary distribution feeds for linear TV, be it satellite, cable or fiber. The watermark provides clear evidence of the distribution path to determine the source of illegally distributed signals (e.g. for live sports broadcasts). This allows the content owner to focus their anti-piracy efforts on the sources of significant piracy. The Network ID watermark also serves as proof of ownership to enable the take down of pirated streams (e.g. from social media).
The Network ID solution has been designed for today’s global mission critical broadcast systems and has already been integrated in some of Nevion’s media nodes, which are widely used by broadcasters and service providers across the world, both for production and distribution applications. The Network ID functionality allowing the media nodes to insert the watermark into the signals in real-time before forwarding these onto the transport network.
NexGuard forensic watermarking adds a unique, invisible identifier to video content. The watermark remains with the content, even in the case of transcoding, resizing, downscaling, recording by camcorder or any other alteration before illegal re-distribution.
The Network ID watermark can be detected through the NexGuard online detection portal, a scalable, automated detection service. As a complement to Network ID, NexGuard’s sister company NAGRA offers a comprehensive set of global anti-piracy monitoring & take-down services for Web, IPTV/Kodi and social media piracy.
