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ROUND TABLE
VCAS argument for now, the question is does an operator need to control something in the home network to properly deliver a service? If it isn’t an STB, will it become an App icon on the TV, tablets, etcetera? Why would it be at the front? That is the one place he needs to be. The question has to be 'Who is controlling the window to the service, the UI?'” So, the STB or gateway remains a central engine of control, but is the Smart Card less important, are all vendors comfortable that VCAS is as secure? “For some years, we are going to keep coming back to this, and, certainly, we still sell lots of smart cards. Some operators' business models depend on it, while for others it is just the most efficient way to do things, however, software CA is certainly now well proven. In the last twelve months there’s certainly been a significant ramp up in clients across all networks interested and willing to take it. It allows an operator to have a much more flexible business model,” says Oggel. Content identification is another flexible, ‘transparent’ security technology, is it there to protect the content owner or the service provider? “Watermarking is a service that can be used progressively from b2b to b2c. So, studios and other producers can protect their assets which they sell several times over to different providers; it is a way for them to police how the assets are being used. The marking can be made unique to each recipient so if the content appears in the market by misuse, you can tell which recipient has responsibility for that. 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