Adara solution extends shelf life of thousands of set-top boxes for Dominican Republic service provider

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...