Doordarshan To Introduce Conditional Access System (CAS) On DD Direct Plus.

Doordarshan is presently providing free to air DTH Service with 59
SDTV Channels. The DTH Platform is being expanded by increasing the
capacity upto 97 Channels.

All channels in MPEG-2, DVB-S will be in free to air mode and all the
channels in MPEG-4, DVB-S2 standard will be in free to air mode for
subscribers after one time registration. Conditional Access System
(CAS) will initially be introduced in only two streams of MPEG-4,
DVB-S2 to count the total no. of active subscribers.

Doordarshan desires that more than one STB manufacturers can sell
their STB in Indian market with Doordarshan approved CAS and Firmware/
Middleware so that Doordarshan can count total number of viewers and
control look and feel in all STB marketed in India.

Doordarshan is inviting Tender for supply, installation, testing,
commissioning and operation & maintainance of CAS System including
Hardware/ Software, Firmware/ Middleware & works related to
implementation of CAS in Doordarshan's DTH Earth Station at Todapur,
New Delhi.

The detailed Tender Notice (dated, 16.07.2013) is available on
Official Doordarshan Website.
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