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IPTV Set-Top-Box, Headend Equipment and Middleware Markets
to Reach $1.5 Billion in 2013
“The
Headend equipment market will be rather small, only reaching $176 Million. This
is in line with developments in digital TV transmission, which will allow for more
centralized processing and encoding of TV signals than in the past” reports
James Heath, Director, Broadband research at Dittberner, and the author of the
just published report “IPTV Impact on Public Networks.” He added that “although
the IPTV middleware market has many
players and will continue to be dynamic, today it is largely dependent on the
Microsoft’s IPTV Edition success in public networks.” The total Set Top Box market in 2013 is estimated to
reach $744 Million.
Forecasts for these
three market segments in 2013 are shown in Table 1.
Table 1: IPTV Equipment Market Size 2013
|
Market Segments |
2013 |
|
Set-top-box Market |
$744,106,000 |
|
Headend Equipment Market |
$176,103,000 |
|
Middleware |
$614,356,000 |
|
Total |
$1,534,566 |
Source: Dittberner Associates Inc.
The report concludes
that the Headend equipment market’s total size depends heavily on the number of
subscribers serviced by each Headend. The set-top-box market is influenced by
the shift to HDTV viewing and the inclusion of Digital Video Recorder
capability in the set-top-box. The broadband access infrastructure needs to be
upgraded in virtually every market to begin to offer quality TV services. The
positive aspect is that once the infrastructure is upgraded, the incremental
cost to the service provider to offer IPTV services is low.
About Dittberner Associates, Inc.
Founded in
1966, Dittberner Associates, Inc. is an international market research and
consultancy with over 70 Telecom Service Providers, and in excess of 100
telecom suppliers as clients. The firm specializes in areas of OSS/BSS, NGN
Switching, Broadband Access, Multiservice Switches and Routers and Wireless
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