ABI Research (News - Alert) has released a study, “Telco Video Infrastructure: Analysis of IP
Video Encoders, Servers, and Other Headend Equipment in Telecom Networks”, in which principal analyst Michael Arden posits that a recent wave of consolidation is realigning the IPTV battlefield.
According to the report, Arden says the pool of independent solutions vendors is shrinking, which he believes will in turn affect smaller telecom operators by creating a market gap.
“Those first IP video equipment providers were small startups creating cutting-edge technologies that the larger vendors weren’t nimble enough to do themselves,” stated Arden. “Lately, as IPTV (News - Alert) technology becomes more important — not only for telco TV but also for cable and satellite — the big companies need those technologies, and they are going out and acquiring the small companies that were the first ones in the market.”
According to Brian Mahony, vice president of marketing for IPTV middleware
provider Espial (News - Alert), “Each vendor — and all operators — have to build their own best of breed IPTV ecosystem, so openness/modularity and flexibility are key. The role of the systems integrator is also very important. Everything does not have to come from a single vendor.”
ABI recently ranked Espial at the top of a recent ABI Research Vendor Matrix, which evaluated worldwide IPTV client middleware vendors. The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of vendors’ positions in specific markets.
In “Telco Video Infrastructure: Analysis of IP Video Encoders, Servers, and Other Headend Equipment in Telecom Networks,” ABI Research takes a close look at the business issues surrounding the deployment of telecom video solutions and the IP video technology that underlies it. The research report details vendor activity and the decisions that telecom video providers must make regarding competitive threats, leveraging revenue, and service integration.
Among the key recent acquisitions in this space, Motorola (News - Alert) announced it would acquire Tut Systems for roughly $39 million. This follows on the heels of their purchase of Netopia last November. And of course, Ericsson’s $2.1 Billion acquisition of Redback Networks (News - Alert) also made news in late December.
Greg Galitzine is editorial director of TMCnet.
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