Broadcom Announces Industry's First NAGRA NOCS 3 Certification - Fueling Multiscreen TV

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Broadcom Announces Industry's First NAGRA NOCS 3 Certification - Fueling Multiscreen TV

Next Generation NAGRA-On-Chip Security (NOCS 3) Now Supported on Broadcom's Connected Home Platforms

LONDON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IPTV World Forum 

News Highlights:

    --  Supports the very latest in security and content protection from NAGRA,
        a leading provider of content protection and multiscreen television
        solutions
    --  Enables the secure delivery of premium content and services to multiple
        TVs and devices in the home
    --  Reduces set-top box power consumption, helping service providers achieve
        their environmental obligations
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced NAGRA NOCS 3 certification on its latest family of leading 40nm set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions. Broadcom's BCM7231 HD IP STB SoC is the first platform in a series of cable, satellite and IP STB SoC solutions to be certified with NAGRA NOCS 3. With NAGRA NOCS 3 support, Broadcom's platforms offer service providers a multi Conditional Access (CA)/ Digital Rights Management (DRM) environment that enables the delivery of secure premium content and services to multiple screens in the home. For more news from Broadcom, visit our Newsroom.

Key Facts

    --  Broadcom's 40nm high performance and energy-efficient STB SoC solutions,
        now certified with NAGRA NOCS 3 support, also feature advanced
        whole-home connectivity that includes DLNA®, MoCA® and Ethernet,
        coupled with full HD 3DTV and scalable video codec (SVC) capabilities,
        and an OpenGL® ES 2.0 graphics processing unit for advanced 3D user
        interface and games.
        --  Broadcom's high performance BCM7231 HD STB SoC delivers advanced IP
            and broadcast digital entertainment services for both client-server
            and standalone deployments. This allows operators to cost
            effectively expand advanced interactive digital and IPTV services
            including the Android ecosystem, browser-based applications or
            SVC-delivered 1080p full HDTV quality broadcasting.
        --  With features similar to the BCM7231 but at a lower price point, the
            BCM7230 and BCM7229 HD STB SoC platforms enable smaller form factors
            and lower power consumption while also supporting 3DTV with MVC,
            OpenGL ES 2.0 and mainstream 1080p full HD quality video.
    --  NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the world's leading
        independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television
        solutions, developed NOCS 3 to protect service providers' investment in
        consumer devices.
    --  NOCS is used both by NAGRA's conditional access system (NAGRA Media
        Access) and NAGRA's digital right managements system (NAGRA DRM) to
        provide an underlying "hardware root-of-trust" that underpins the
        security of these solutions.
    --  NOCS 3 is the latest generation of NAGRA's on-chip security products.
        --  NOCS 3 moves some security constraints from the device to the
            chipset, reducing the cost and complexity of developing secure
            set-top boxes.
        --  NOCS 3 includes features that enable a fast and secure
            resume-from-standby, limiting power consumption and meeting new
            environmental standards.
        --  NOCS 3 supports a true multi CA/DRM environment, enabling service
            providers to deploy additional third party DRMs and CAs alongside
            NAGRA's own solutions.
    --  Combined with NAGRA products, NOCS brings the full breadth of security
        "into the device, on the device and out of the device."
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Quotes

Ivan Verbesselt, SVP of Marketing, NAGRA

"Our NOCS 3 technology supports operators' expanded in-home footprints with an end-to-end secure content delivery system for multi-platform and multiscreen customers. The ability of these SoCs to achieve our highest level of security architecture certification is a testament to Broadcom's leadership in providing secure STB platforms."

Dan Marotta, Broadcom's Executive Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Communications Group:

"Broadcom is excited to be the first silicon provider to achieve certification on the most advanced NAGRA standard. This is the first step of many that we plan to take with NAGRA to roll-out NOCS 3 capable devices."

    Contacts

    Press                           Investor Relations
    Dana Brzozkiewicz               Chris Zegarelli
    Manager, Public Relations (BCG) Director, Investor Relations
    949-926-6367                    949-926-7567
    danabrz@broadcom.com            czegarel@broadcom.com

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments.  With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to http://www.broadcom.com.

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