Mediaset: Digital Terrestrian TV

Digital TV has become a de facto standard to broadcast signal with higher quality and with more content than before (using digital signal it's possible to send also programs, interactive channel, and much more). In order to protect the rights associated to these contents, the signal must encripted, and only who is allowed to decript the signal can see the transmission (usaully movies or live events). The system that allow to protect and distribute the rights to see the content is called CAS (Conditional Access System) and it has been implemented by a Swiss company. Mediaset, in order to use the CAS system, needs to build other systems that will link the communicate between the CAS System and all the existing or new Mediaset systems such as: an SMS (subscribe management system) gateway system, a CRM system and a traking systems for the Smart Card and Voucher needed to store the rights given by the CAS System. All these systems have been designed using SOA paradigm and implemented using J2EE technology provided by Oracle. In these project my role has been to design and coordinate the implementation of the systems. So we can say that I have been the Architect of the Mediset solution for Digital TV.