Don't lose money and customer loyalty on premium video content that doesn't play. Dr. Susanne Guth-Orlowski's talk on DRMtoday and License Delivery Networks (LDN) will help you secure content without license server performance lag.

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License Delivery Network for Simplifying DRM
IBC 2017
Dr. Susanne Guth-Orlowski - VP Sales & Business Development

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Why should I listen?
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Can you afford
that your premium video content
does not play?

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DRM Challenges: Reaching all Customers
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You as a content service provider…
… need to support multiple DRM-technologies including PlayReady®
,
Widevine™
, CLMA-OMA and FairPlay Streaming to reach all screens.
… need to support high quality output formats across
hardware-based and software-based DRMs.
… need to reach people world wide at anytime
… need to support various business models

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DRMtoday: Service Node
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How DRMtoday is
integrated with three easy
and standardised APIs

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DRMtoday: Service Provider Benefits
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Cloud-based: scales to
grow with your business
Automatic updates: no need to
maintain or self-update service
Preintegrated with:

AWS Elemental,

Wowza,

Unified Streaming,

Microsoft Azure Media
Services,

Harmonic,

Broadpeak,

Imagine Communications
Security audited: castLabs’ service
approved by all major Hollywood
Studios

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DRMtoday: Service Provider Benefits
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Large feature-set:
device detection, geo-blocking, key-rotation, multi-tenancy,
resolution-specific keys,
and concurrent stream monitoring (demo at booth!)
Business Models:
VoD, live, offline playback (downloaded), purchase, rental/ subscriptions

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DRMtoday: License Delivery Network
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DRMtoday reaches millions of
devices each month exceeding
200 licenses a second.
DRMtoday continues to function
through failover onto another linked
server, without service disruption
and no lag in performance.
If a server fails?

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LDN: Service Provider Benefits
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 has greater operational availability than AWS alone (i.e. protects
against server failure, costs and reputational implications)
 the License Delivery Network remains unaffected from AWS outages
 Multi-region infrastructure reduces request times by up to a second
on average* between customer and license server
 always choses the node with the least latency for key delivery
*
based on response time tests between Europe, North America and Australia
DRMtoday’s infrastructure is built on top of AWS infrastructure and

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castLabs: End-To-End Delivery
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Content delivery networkcastLabs Video ToolkitSource video
Encrypted video
Content key ingestion
Encrypted video
User approved
License request Authorization check
castLabs DRMtoday Your systemcastLabs player
License delivery
Facilitating end-to-end delivery:
Content Processing, with Video Toolkit
Content Protection, with DRMtoday
Content Delivery, with PRESTOplay video player SDKs

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castLabs: Security Expertise
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High level of service support
from our experienced
technical team
Experts in studio-recognized
DRM since 2007 with close
relationship to Hollywood
Undergone extensive
independent security audit
(all castLabs technologies)

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Meet Us at Booth 14.L02
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castlabs.com
castLabs Inc.
WeWork Building
7083 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
USA
castLabs GmbH
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 5-7
10179 Berlin
Germany
Dr. Susanne Guth-Orlowski
VP Sales & Business Development
susanne.guth@castlabs.com
+49 162 2678760 (mobile)
Skype: s.guth
FairPlay is a trademark of Apple Inc. IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and other countries and is used under license. Android and Widevine are trademarks of Google Inc. PlayReady is a trademark of the Microsoft group of companies.