NDS Wins Russian IPTV Deal

NDS has secured a contract win with Comstar-United TeleSystems (Comstar), a subsidiary of Russian company Sistema, to supply a number of services, including content protection and a next-generation user interface, NDS announced March 16.

   Comstar-UTS has more than 147,000 double-play subscribers in Moscow for its Stream-branded pay-TV channels.

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   Comstar will be the first customer to deploy the NDS Master UI, NDS said.