Exset, Donex ink deal for manufacturing STBs

Donex Industries will manufacture around one million STBs every year with Exset's Digital Monetisation System

Netherlands-based Exset BV and Donex Industries Ltd today announced to jointly manufacture set top boxes (STBs) for the Indian home cable market.

As per the agreement, Donex Industries would manufacture around one million STBs every year with Exset's Digital Monetisation System (DMS), said a joint statement issued by the two companies.

Moreover, the Indian partner would also be responsible for after sales service of the DMS embedded STBs, it added.

Exset has been in the business of manufacturing STB for the Indian cable industry for over two years and for the first time they will be manufacturing STBs embed with DMS.

DMS is Exset's technology model that makes pay-TV self- financing without depending exclusively on subscriber fees for revenue.

Commenting on the development Exset BV Managing Director and CEO Alex Borland said: "The STB is essential to the deployment of DMS and we are really pleased to be partnering with Donex because of the company's acknowledged expertise in this field."

Donex Industries Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director Vinod Kinger said: "The DMS service combined with hardware conditional access provides an interactive pay-TV solution which will help the Cable Operators to drive ARPU's to new levels."

This will ensure delivery of path breaking monetisation service and the next generation content protection system to the cable fraternity and enable them to create multiply revenues by generating new value added monetisation streams, the statement said.