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Skardin and ALi Give Update on NOCS-Certified STB Performance

ALi Corporation, a set-top box chipset provider, and Skardin, an STB manufacturer, have announced “record-high” shipments of Nagra-on-chip Security-certified STBs to South American operators in 2018.

ALi has established a long-term partnership with Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and an independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television — its secure chipset first received Nagra certification back in 2013.

With this technology in place, ALi and Skardin say they are able to meet the security standard required by first-tier operators.

South America is currently a rapid-growing market. According to Digital TV News, pay TV in the Andean region recorded an annual growth of 5.5% in the first quarter of 2018 and there were 1.78 million pay TV households in the western region of South America as of March 2018.