Company history

In 1988, Alain Catrevaux is working in a fundamental research lab, pioneering the then-nascent field of digital media when he gets a call from Canal+. The first ever European pay-TV channel has hit a technological brick wall and needs help: Its Conditional Access System has been hacked in only a few weeks time, thus endangering the very future of the company. Canal+ asks Alain to imagine and design a new generation of piracy-proof set-top boxes.

Alain starts working, in association with a Swiss company he knows for their work on scrambling analog images. The result, launched in the first months of 1990, is the first European C.A.S. to integrate a smartcard in its set-top boxes. When Alain leaves Canal+ to found LOGIWAYS in 2001, this C.A.S. has been widely distributed among Canal+ and numerous international operators… and has not yet been hacked.

Since 2001, Alain heads LOGIWAYS, a different kind of software company. LOGIWAYS has a core team which includes former Canal+ colleagues as well as brilliant people from a variety of backgrounds, a double experience on both the technical and the operating side, and a double expertise in both sofware and hardware.

Ten years later, history repeats itself. The media industry is stuck in a technological dead-end, trying to fight the tidal wave of piracy which the full-digital era has allowed to rise. Once more, a TV operator aks Alain to deploy his expertise. The answer is LOGIWAYS SafeAccess, the first ever C.A.S. safe enough to receive EAL4+/AVA_VAN5 certification in accordance with Common Criteria (or ISO 15408) .