Intertrust Wins TV Connect’s Prestigious Award for the Best Over the Top (OTT) Platform Service

London, UK – May 10, 2018 – Intertrust Technologies Corporation, the inventor of Digital Rights Management (DRM), is pleased to announce that its Kiora™ offline content delivery platform, won the “Best OTT Platform Service” award at the TV Connect Awards Ceremony held on May 9th, 2018 in London. The award is held in conjunction with the TV Connect event currently taking place at the Olympia in London.

Kiora is Intertrust’s OTT platform, which provides attractive and secure OTT video service experiences to consumers in low to no bandwidth locations. Composed of an innovative back-end cloud platform and edge video distribution appliances, Kiora creates local Wi-Fi based content zones for consumers to enjoy protected video content on their smartphones and other portable devices. Kiora’s content zones can be placed in a wide variety of environments ranging from cars, trains and airplanes to buildings with weak network connections in developing cities, rural communities and generally locations with limited bandwidth access.

Kiora was competing against five other companies, the most competition in the nine award categories. “We are delighted that the TV Connect judges chose Kiora for this award,” said Kenny Huang, managing director, Intertrust ASEAN and general manager of Intertrust ExpressPlay. “Kiora gives content providers the ability to reach their customers even when a reliable broadband connection isn’t readily available.”

For TV Connect attendees, to find out more about Kiora, please visit Intertrust’s booth at the event.

Intertrust’s ExpressPlay CA™ was also a finalist for an award in the content protection category.