NDS enables pay-TV operators to deliver a unique viewing experience to their subscribers while ensuring that only paying viewers can access content. At exit, over a third of the world’s digital pay-TV households were relying on its technologies. See how we backed its growth…
NDS
Together we achieved
- The creation of the world’s leading technology provider to video content owners and aggregators
- Significant new client wins in Europe and North America
- Expansion in emerging markets, such as Latin America, India and China
- The signing of NDS’s first large digital rights management contracts with DirecTV and BskyB, allowing content to be delivered securely across TV, mobile and tablets
This was accomplished by
- Supporting new product innovations, hiring more than 1,000 additional developers from 2009 to 2012
- Developing new market opportunities outside pay-TV, such as hybrid broadcast-broadband technologies and ‘Over-the-Top’ internet video, enabling providers to deliver exciting multi-screen video services to their customers
- Focusing on core business through the disposal of OpenBet in February 2011
The metrics
€2,431m
Transaction value
2009
Acquisition year
2.3x
ROI
2012
Exit year
Cisco
Trade sale
NDS smart card sales in China
2009 - £6.5m
2011 - £23.1m