Mexico. The improvement of CAS (Conditional Access System) systems is decreasing the number of illegal users accessing Pay-TV networks in Latin America. This is the case of Wellav's developments, being compatible with other developers, complement the security products of the operators, said Diego Tanco, senior sales manager for Latin America at Wellav.
"In addition to having our own CAS, we are partners of Conax, Irdeto, Verimatrix, so we are fully compatible with other CAS operators. In some Latin American operators, piracy is fully controllable, but in other cases we know that there are pirate receivers and therefore it has gotten out of hand. But it depends fundamentally on governments to support and combat such piracy," he said during his participation in Convergencia MX, held from July 19 to 21 in Mexico City.
On Wellav's solutions he said: "We are presenting cablers with the complete solution to digitize their head-end from end to end, from encoder, multiplexer, modulator and set-top-box. With the trend that over-the-air channels are being digitized, that has pushed quite a bit to the digitization of pay-TV services. A little bit for that and a little bit to fight piracy."
On the company's market outlook in the region, he commented: "Tier-1 customers are already in 100% digital; the medium and small everything indicates that the levels vary, but in general I estimate that it should be less than 50%. That's our target market, in which there's a lot to do."
