Synamedia Ltd. is a video technology provider headquartered in the UK. Its products cover content distribution and delivery, video processing, and video security.
History
The company was formed in 1988 as News Datacom in Israel, offering encryption technology for satellite broadcasts. The encryption technology was developed by Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir and Amos Fiat. In 1992, the company was acquired by News Corporation and renamed News Digital Systems. In 2012, Cisco Systems Inc. acquired NDS. It became the foundation of Cisco's Service ProviderVideo Software Solutions business. In May 2018, Permira acquired the SPVSS business from Cisco. The acquisition included Cisco's Infinite Video platform, the former Scientific Atlanta video processing portfolio, cloud digital video recording, video processing, video security, and video middleware. In October 2018, the business was launched as Synamedia. Synamedia leadership includes Abe Peled, Chairman; Yves Padrines, CEO; and Bijal Patel, CFO. Yves Padrines, former Vice President of Global Service Provider at Cisco, was appointed CEO by Permira Group in 2018. The company has offices in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Belgium, Israel, India, and China. Synamedia's clients include satellite and cable pay TV providers, media companies, and others involved in direct-to-consumer OTT distribution. It has over 200 pay TV and media customers. They include AT&T, beIN, Bharti Airtel, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Disney, Etisalat, Foxtel, Liberty Global, OSN, Rogers, Sky, Tata Sky, Verizon, Vodafone, and YES. In January 2020, Synamedia entered a partnership with Pearl TV to join the Phoenix Model Market Initiative.
Products
Synamedia’s platforms for cable, satellite, and IPTV include Foundation for broadcast and hybrid solutions, and the cloud-based Infinite platform. In 2019, Synamedia released its Credentials Sharing and Fraud Insight product. The product enables pay-TV partners and OTT companies to track and prevent piracy and password-sharing. The Synamedia Video Network portfolio includes Digital Content Manager which transitions distribution architectures to an IP-based virtualized video processing environment. In October 2019, Discovery began using the DCM platform. The Synamedia virtualized DCM with Smart Rate Control and Automation provides bandwidth distribution, storage capabilities and High Definition viewing experiences for live and time-shifted ABR streaming. The Synamedia Video Network Service Manager is a micro-services-based platform that helps operators and video producers quickly update their programming line-ups and bundled offers. The Converged Headend is designed to help pay-TV providers transition to software-based services, and can be deployed on premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Synamedia, in partnership with Sky, has developed a personalized ad targeting platform, AdSmart.
