Adara Technologies announced last month its PowerKEY 2024 Conditional Access Time-Wrap Solution has enabled Dominican Republic service provider Aster Tecnodisa to continue operation of its Scientific-Atlanta, Cisco and Technicolor set-top boxes beyond their timeout date in late November.
Digital cable set-top boxes that use the PowerKEY conditional access (CA) system developed by Scientific-Atlanta in the 1990s have an internal CA time clock issue that causes the devices to roll over to zero as of late last month, preventing the set-tops from decrypting video, explains an Adara press release.
“PowerKEY conditional access has delivered rock-solid content security for decades, and the 20 million or so set-tops still in the field have many more years of excellent operational life remaining,” Stan Koukarine, CTO and co-founder of Mississauga, Ont.-based Adara Technologies, said in the release. “Our solution, which has been chosen by dozens of cable operators worldwide including Aster Tecnodisa, covers all generations of PowerKEY devices, including embedded security, separable CableCARDs and downloadable DCAS devices. We are thrilled to have solved this for Aster and its 45,000 customers and look forward to implementing additional measures to enhance service reliability and customer experience, including a paced and customer-driven migration to Adara’s game-changing, multi-screen IP video solution.”
