World's Leading IPTV/OTT Set-Top Box Manufacturers
The global STB market is facing fundamental changes nowadays. Growing interest for interactive TV in developed countries, increasing share of content access via mobile devices and a wide implication of HEVC video compression format and 4K resolution are now the factors which affect the market significantly. So all the IPTV/OTT equipment suppliers should be flexible and inventive to satisfy the modern users demands.
Brooklyn, NY 11235 USA, March 30, 2016 (Newswire.com) - The global STB market is facing fundamental changes nowadays. Growing interest for interactive TV in developed countries, increasing share of content access via mobile devices and a wide implication of HEVC video compression format and 4K resolution are now the factors which affect the market significantly. So all the IPTV/OTT equipment suppliers should be flexible and inventive to satisfy the modern users demands.
Here is the short review of Set-Top Box manufacturers and equipment for IPTV/OTT business suppliers, which managed to succeed in challenging market conditions:
Cisco Systems Inc.
The Cisco is known all over the world as one of top IT companies. Their Explorer 8600HDC DVR Set-Top Series is holding a stable position on the global market. This series helps to unite whole home video in one hub, allowing users to share their content across set-top boxes or PCs in a local network, to store the content and to record one TV program even when watching another.
Infomir LLC
A Ukrainian manufacturer with over 3000 successful IPTV/OTT projects in 115 countries based on their MAG Set-Top boxes. Still the company launches about 10 new projects in Europe and USA each month and sells above 1 million set-top boxes each year.
The key features of Infomir:
A full product cycle - company supports their production on every stage: from design and software development to integration assistance and worldwide service support. All that allowed to minimize the retail price of MAG STBs and to achieve an extremely low reject rate of products (0,6%)
Free Middleware - the company provides the operators with free Stalker Middleware. Its open source code makes it possible to set up variety of new functions.
Wide model range - Infomir produces the product lines for operators with different needs and aims: basic IPTV/OTT Set-Top boxes, hybrid models with DVB-C/T/T2 support and premium UltraHD STBs (will be launched in 2016). All the models in production support FullHD and 3D formats.
A world famous networking and telecommunication equipment and services supplier, which faced an extremely intense growth in 2014 and has retained its position among industry leaders till now. The company produces mobile devices, wireless accessories and data delivery and management solutions such as Set-Top Boxes.
The company is one of biggest set-top box market stakeholders with more than 20 years of experience. Company’s portfolio includes satellite, cable and IPTV set top boxes. Their latest IPTV Set-Top Box IPV5050 supports high definition and 3D video and was marked with EnergyStar 4.1 as an energy saving product.
ARRIS Group Inc.
ARRIS is a constantly developing company whose acquisition of Pace plc received mixed reaction on the market. Their latest innovation DCX-3600 M Video Gateway differs from many competitors by a built-in 1Tb hard drive, which allows to use a device as a media storage. In accordance to set-top boxes, ARRIS offers expert lifecycle services to their partners to help plan, design, implement and operate integrated solutions for ARRIS and third-party products.
Broadcom’s solutions serve four primary end markets: wired infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage and industrial & others. As for IPTV/OTT segment – Broadcom provides it with multipurpose BCM Set-top boxes and powerful media processors, which are also used in other companies’ production (ex. MAG350 and MAG352 by Infomir LLC).
EchoStar Corp.
A global satellite and video delivery solutions provider. Company’s headquarters are situated in Englewood; Colo. EchoStar invests most of efforts in TV Anywhere technology by creating their place shifting products:
Slingbox® for users allows to watch the actual TV from anywhere in the world using mobile devices, PCs or tablets by connecting a Slingbox to the TV and an Internet source, and downloading the mobile app.
SlingLoaded® for operators allows to implement multi-screen and TV Anywhere solutions without the need to invest in additional network infrastructure.