Under the agreement, Advantec Network Systems will market TV/COM analog products in Indian and SAARC countries.
There is no equity arrangements between the two partners with the arrangement restricted to marketing, distribution and servicing.
TV/COM has also launched its Sigma X series of decoders, an extension of its Sigma analog product line.
Sigma X decoders offer enhanced pirate protection for cable operators.
It would be significantly easy for operators to shift from the Sigma series to higher analog products.
Analog delivery systems offer advanced baseband scrambling of video and cryptographically secure digital audio.
On the global level, TV/COM is a supplier of high-performance delivery solutions for cable, satellite and terrestrial network.
It claims leadership in the development and marketing of open architectures for compression, control and conditioned access systems and analog scrambling. It enjoys a leading edge in marketing of TV communications systems.
Prakash Advani, president, Advantec, said that advanced Sigma decoders would provide low-cost entry points for systems operators to establish a secure system protecting signal transmissions from cable to subscriber.
Advantec has in place relationships with global telecom majors like Lucent Technologies and UB Networks, for marketing, servicing of products.
