New Delhi – NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV announced that it has invested over US$120 million in India since opening its R&D Centre in Bangalore in 2000. NDS now plans to increase investment in its Indian R&D Centre and commercial offices over the next three years to support the accelerating digitisation of pay-TV across the nation and worldwide. NDS solutions, centring around market-leading VideoGuard conditional access technology, safeguard over US$65 million in revenue in India annually by helping pay- TV operators deliver content to their audiences securely. Teams of engineers from NDS India are working on solutions for local operators including Bharti Airtel, Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), Hathway and Tata Sky, demonstrating NDS’ commitment to helping its customers deliver an enhanced viewing experience to an estimated 16 million Indian viewers. On a worldwide basis, 26 per cent of NDS employees are based in India, making the Indian operation the second largest in the NDS global network and providing jobs and training to over 1,000 staff.