November 20, 2008

Report: Telco TV Headend Market Growth Linked to HD, On-Demand

The In-Stat report "Global Telco TV Video Headend Update" indicates the telco TV headend equipment market is expected to grow substantially over the next five years. This growth, driven by the expansion of video channels, the introduction of HD content, and the continued adoption of on-demand services, will position telco operators to pursue highly-profitable personalized advertising and converged services business models, the market research firm says.

The report indicates that:

. The telco TV headend equipment market will grow to over $700 million by 2012.
. The upgrade to MPEG-4 encoding was strong during 2007 and 2008.
. Increasingly, headend functionality will be distributed to the edge and access network.