November 2024 signified a looming issue for cable operators that use the PowerKEY conditional access system created in the 1990s. It relates to an internal CA time clock issue that would cause each device to roll over to zero at that date, which would make the set-tops inoperable. But ImOn Communications is preparing in advance after partnering with Adara Technologies to utilize the PowerKEY 2024 Conditional Access Time-Warp Solution.
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Telecompetitor: ImOn Selects Vendor to Stave Off Set Top Box Obsolescence
Adara Technologies Inc. (www.adara-tech.com) today announced that it has been chosen by ImOn Communications of Cedar Rapids, IA to provide the cable broadband operator with its PowerKEY 2024 Conditional Access Time-Warp Solution that will allow ImOn to continue operation of its Scientific-Atlanta, Cisco and Technicolor set-top boxes and DTAs beyond the anticipated timeout date of November 2024 for all such boxes. ImOn provides services to approximately 13,000 subscribers throughout Iowa.
Light Reading: Doomsday clock ticks for millions of ‘PowerKEY’ set-tops
Adara, Synamedia and Vantiva – along with operators such as Comcast and Charter – have mobilized to help salvage millions of set-tops outfitted with PowerKEY security before their internal clocks rollover next November.
Light Reading: Adara touts IPTV win
Adara Technologies Inc. today announced that it has been chosen by Diffusion Fermont ( “La Coopérative de la Télévision Communautaire de Fermont”) to deploy its game-changing myCatapulTVe® IP Video Solution that is specifically designed to accelerate broadband growth for service providers, leveraging such features as free onscreen advertising of provider internet services on every fixed and mobile TV screen.
Broadband Technology Report: Quebec’s RTC Havre-St-Pierre taps Adara for IP video
Quebec’s FCCTQ is under exclusive agreement with Adara to offer the company’s myCatapulTVe app-based IP Video Solution to all members, with a super-bundle to provide live linear, OTT/SVOD and universal search capabilities on a variety of consumer devices.
QUEBEC’S RTC HAVRE-ST-PIERRE CHOOSES ADARA TECHNOLOGIES’ ADVANCED IP VIDEO SOLUTION
Operator to Super-Bundle Live Linear, OTT/SVOD, Universal Search on Variety of Consumer Devices
TORONTO, ON – May 2, 2023 – Adara Technologies Inc. (www.adara-tech.com) today announced that it has been chosen by RTC Havre-St-Pierre ( “Radio Télévision Communautaire Havre St-Pierre”) to deploy its game-changing myCatapulTVe® IP Video Solution that enables broadband and cable service providers to add “TV Everywhere” services seamlessly to their networks and/or to migrate quickly and efficiently to app-based streaming Pay TV services.
Located in Havre-St-Pierre, Quebec on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, the Havre-St-Pierre community comprises many small town and villages with a total population of approximately 5,500. It is 1,000 km northeast of Montreal and faces the magnificent and unique Anticosti Island (candidate since 2018 to become a UNESCO World Heritage site). It is an important tourist region that attracts over 30,000 visitors a year.
RTC Havre-St-Pierre is a member of the Fédération des Coopératives de Câblodistribution et de Télécommunication du Québec (“FCCTQ”), headquartered in Quebec City. Earlier this year, FCCTQ entered into an exclusive agreement with Adara to make available its myCatapulTVe® app-based IP Video Solution to all of the group’s members. FCCTQ represents 22 cable/telecommunications Co-op and non-profit organizations throughout the Province of Quebec, serving a total of approximately 75,000 customers.
Patrick Cadieux, Managing Director for RTC Havre-St-Pierre, and a board member of FCCTQ, said, “We at RTC Havre-St-Pierre and the Fédération have been most impressed by the innovativeness and professionalism of the Adara team. They truly understand our needs as a smaller regional operator who competes against national players and with their sound financial structure and solid operational support, I believe they represent the best in a business partnership.”
“We know that the fact that Adara’s solutions are multilingual and are based on decades of telecommunications industry experience are highly valued by our partners,” said Normand Tremblay, Directeur, Développement des Affaires, Québec for Adara. “RTC Havre-St-Pierre is the first customer resulting from our FCCTQ agreement and we look forward to entering into partnerships with other members for both our IP advanced video solutions as well as our bandwidth efficiency and reclamation expertise.”
About Adara Technologies Inc.
Adara Technologies Inc. delivers game changing solutions that enable cable service providers to revolutionize their Broadband and Video businesses. One of Adara’s signature breakthroughs is its SIPV Bandwidth Reclamation Solution which enables operators to inexpensively free up massive amounts of spectrum in as little as 90 days, without disrupting customers and risking associated revenue losses, for immediate DOCSIS expansion to multi-Gigabit and beyond. Another game-changer, Adara’s myCatapulTVe® App-based IP Video Solution enables operators to curate and deliver live linear, VOD and OTT/SVOD content including Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, YouTube and more using the operator’s own app as a one-stop destination for customers, without the need for the operator executing separate, extremely onerous business relationships with OTT/SVOD providers.
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Light Reading: Adara lands deal for app- and IP-based video platform
Adara Technologies Inc. today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with the Fédération des Coopératives de Câblodistribution et de Télécommunication du Québec (“FCCTQ”), headquartered in Quebec City, to make available its myCatapulTVe® App-based IP Video Solution to all of the group’s members. FCCTQ represents 22 cable/telecommunications Co-op and non-profit organizations throughout the Province of Quebec, serving a total of approximately 75,000 customers.
Light Reading: Adara lands video deal in the Arctic
Adara Technologies Inc. (www.adara-tech.com) today announced that Arctic Co-operatives Limited, based in Winnipeg, MB and which serves 33 community-based Co-operative businesses located in Saskatchewan, Nunavet, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Canada has chosen Adara Technologies to provide the co-op with an Advanced Video Solution that includes upgraded UHD-4K video quality and an Advanced User Experience.
Light Reading: Time warp could cause millions of old ‘PowerKEY’ set-tops to go on the blink
Millions of digital cable set-tops that use the “PowerKEY” conditional access (CA) system originally developed by Scientific-Atlanta decades ago could go on the blink in late 2024 due to an internal computing clock issue that will cause the devices to “time out” and become inoperable.
Boiled down, the internal clock of those boxes – based on a so-called “epoch time” that sets the zero point/starting time in certain computing systems – will effectively roll over in November 2024 because of memory limitations in the secure microprocessor that keeps time. That time rollover won’t prevent the underlying PowerKEY security system from operating as designed, but the clock on the box’s secure micro will no longer match up properly and will therefore prevent the set-top from decrypting video.
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The Fast Mode: Docomo Pacific Deploys Adara Technologies’ Bandwidth Reclamation Solution Suite
Docomo Pacific, wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s leading mobile operator has deployed Adara Technologies‘ Bandwidth Reclamation Solution suite.
Docomo Pacific is the largest provider of fixed, wireless, internet and cable services in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Among many distinctive features, the solution deploys without any customer disruption, giving Operators the bandwidth they need quickly, and without the major customer revenue losses typically associated with massively customer-disruptive and costly techniques such as forced analog reclamation.