2008
Steady Growth Continues in Global IPTV Market, Reports MRG, Inc.
Local Differentiation Key to Growth
San Jose, CA: November 10, 2008—While threats of financial collapse lurk at every corner, global Telcos apparently did enough belt-tightening back in 2000 to 2003 to lessen their exposure to financial volatility. Multimedia Research Group’s latest IPTV Global Forecast shows that global IPTV subscribers will grow from 20.4 million IPTV subscribers in 2008 to 89.6 million in 2012. To drive this growth, IPTV Operators worldwide are expected to continue investing in improved Quality-of-Service, ease-of-operation, HD content, exclusive programming and time-shifting as differentiating features.
The new MRG report, IPTV Global Forecast 2008 to 2012 — October 2008, provides new insight into strategies and services added by IPTV Operators to accelerate growth. “This new Forecast gives an overview of the differentiating services offered by the top IPTV Operators,” says Jose Alvear, IPTV Analyst at MRG. “Operators continue to add impressive new services and improved QoS (Quality of Service) in competitive markets especially in Europe and North America.”
In Europe, for example, steady IPTV subscriber growth continues while more HD channels are being offered to Western and Eastern European subscribers. By 2012, European subscribers will still be slightly ahead of Asia, with Europe maintaining 41.5% of the worldwide subscriber market and Asia, 35.8%. Despite economic contraction, consistent growth continues at the three major French IPTV Operators as they compete to bring better quality and unique content to their users; and as new competition comes online in 2009. Many European IPTV Operators have increased subscribers by offering differentiating services, exclusive content and interactive features. Likewise in Asia, despite flat growth in Japan, rapid growth is expected in China, Taiwan and Korea.
By 2012 North America will have only about 17% share of the total worldwide subscribers, however it will dominate the global market in terms of gross service revenue at about $13 billion, due to higher ARPU. Together, Verizon and AT&T are projected to have about 3 million subscribers by the end of 2008, and they should continue their rapid growth into 2012. Smaller U.S. and Canadian Operators are following similar strategies.
The report includes the market growth of six CapEx products in 4 worldwide regions, with details about these 24 sectors and the related subscriber and system revenues for 2008 to 2112. Information is available at: www.mrgco.com/TOC_IPTV_GF1008.html or, contact Rob Smith at rsmith@mrgco.com, or, 1-408-453-5553 (San Jose, CA, USA). The price of this 90-page (indexed) report is $3,995 USD for a printed copy, and $5,200 USD for a PDF format Departmental License. It is free for subscribers to the IPTV Tracking Service.
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Report Demystifies Content Protection and Forensics
for IPTV Operators Moving Toward Converged Services
San Jose, CA – October 20, 2008 – To survive the next few years, small and large Service Providers (SPs) worldwide are getting ready to offer “Converged” services where content is time- and place-shifted to many different devices besides the TV set. One big question SPs face is how to secure and protect content when it is in-house, and to trace content that has been “leaked” back to the origin of the leak.
“IPTV SPs will have to embrace Converged services in most markets where there’s already competition from Cable, Satellite or even (free) multi-channel digital terrestrial,” says Jose Alvear, Analyst. “This report greatly simplifies the path to securing high-value multi-platform content as a means for SPs to move more quickly toward differentiation of their services.” Since convergence means adding more release windows and more platforms to distribute new (or re-released) content, many of those windows need to be secured with both Content Protection and Forensics.
This report captures and explains the dynamic sector of IPTV Content Protection as it evolves from basic Conditional Access (and Encryption) to DRM (Digital Rights Management) and Forensics (including Watermarking and Fingerprinting). It profiles major security companies like Conax, Irdeto, Latens, NDS, Nagravision, SecureMedia, Verimatrix, Viaccess and Widevine. In its assessment of opportunities, risks and recommendations, it advises Service Providers and CP/DRM vendors alike on how to change costs into revenue generators. The report is a must-have resource for Content Owners, IPTV Operators and multi-platform Service Providers; as well as for Middleware, VOD and Encoder/Decoder vendors, and other key players in the single and multi-platform (Converged) video delivery value chain. “Because content owners have high concern about controlling their content, SPs are finding that a flexible protection and forensics strategy can actually help improve negotiations with content owners for unique programming and new release windows,” states MRG CEO, Gary Schultz.
Content Protection for IPTV & Multi-Screen Converged Services: Trends & Opportunities in Conditional Access, DRM, Watermarking & Fingerprinting — September 2008 is 119 pages and is available in a printed English language edition for $2,995 USD, a PDF single-departmental license for $3,995 USD, and is available free as part of MRG's IPTV Tracking Service. For more information or to order the report, contact Rob Smith at 1-408-453-5553 or rsmith@mrgco.com.
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MRG's Global IPTV Market Leaders Report Reflects Significant Shifts
San Jose, CA: September 23, 2008—MRG Inc. announces new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report — August 2008, which tracks the top 100 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-segments based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 660 IPTV Operations. Continuing growth of orders are reflected by increased deployments of IPTV products in Europe, Asia, Rest of World, and even in North America.
The merger and acquisitions activity continues with news from Viaccess’ purchase of Orca and Espial’s acquisition of Kasenna, leaving ripples of change throughout the Middleware, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Content Protection sectors. For the first time, Microsoft has moved upward to third position globally in Middleware, VOD and Content Protection, as other Middleware and VOD providers brace for further rolling swells from the software giant. Verimatrix again scores in the top 5 vendors in all 4 regions and as Number one globally in Content Protection.
In VOD, Thomson advances to Number one globally for the first time, and Alcatel-Lucent remains Number one in Middleware. In STBs (set-top boxes), Motorola remains the global leader while competitors Sagem, Cisco and Amino are showing the ability to close the gap in front of them.
“Some IPTV market segments are more volatile than others and will certainly see some changes in the future,” says Jose Alvear, MRG Analyst. “However, one thing is certain: the IPTV market is still going strong. Not only are subscriber numbers rising, but new Operators are still in the midst of deploying IPTV systems all around the world.”
Companies like Ericsson, Thomson, NEC, Nortel and Cisco are expected to create strong “turn-key” alliances with various companies on a regional and local basis, to compete with the strong regional successes of companies like UTStarcom and ZTE. “Turn-key system strategies on a regional and even a local basis mark a new era in vendor strategies that help IPTV Operators control and accelerate early deployment,” says Gary Schultz, President, MRG, Inc.
More details are available at: www.mrgco.com/iptv/mlr0808.html Or, contact Rob Smith at MRG, rsmith@mrgco.com, or, telephone 1-408-453-5553 (San Jose, CA, USA). The price of this 84-page (indexed) report is $3,995 USD for a printed copy, and $5,200 USD for a PDF format Departmental License. It is free for subscribers to the IPTV Tracking Service.
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MRG Releases Worldwide Forecast on Cleantech Development
San Jose, CA: July 14, 2008—MRG, Inc., announces a broad-based new report on the global cleantech industry, encompassing a wide range of products and services, from alternative energy generation to wastewater treatment to more resource-efficient industrial processes. Although some of these industries are very different, they all share a common thread: they use new, innovative technology to create products and services that compete favorably on price and performance while reducing humankind's impact on the environment. To be considered "cleantech," products and services must:
- Optimize use of natural resources, offering a cleaner or less wasteful alternative to traditional products and services;
- Have their genesis in an innovative or novel technology or application;
- Add economic value compared to traditional alternatives.
Already, the market for cleaner fuels and more efficient devices to improve generation, delivery, and performance now accounts for 20-25 percent of all global energy investment. While the cleantech catchword was created only about five years ago, the sector it describes already generates approximately U.S.$200 billion a year. The cleantech market is the third largest venture capital investment category, behind only biotech and software. Not surprisingly, some of cleantech's biggest proponents are the same entrepreneurs behind earlier venture-funded breakthroughs in computing, telecommunications, and the Internet.
The current global market for cleantech products and services is about U.S.$284 billion, growing to over U.S.$1.3 trillion in 2017. Of this (2017) amount, more than one-third (U.S.$467 billion) will be attributable to renewable energy sources, such as biofuels, solar, tidal, and wind power. Together these energy-related segments are expected to grow from a current value of U.S.$104 billion to approximately U.S.$467 billion in 2017. The total segments covered include Agriculture, Air & Environment, Materials, Energy, Recycling, Manufacturing/Industrial, Transportation and Water Recycling. Forecasts by application include Air Pollution Control, Biofuels, Demand Response, Environmental Remediation, Fuel Cells, Green Building Technologies, Hydrogen, Solar, Solid-state Lighting, Thermoelectrics, Waste-to-Energy, Water/Wastewater, Wave/Tidal Power, and Wind Power.
The 175-page report, “Cleantech: Current Status and Worldwide Outlook—2008” is available in a Hard Copy Print Edition for $1,495 USD, a PDF single-department license for $2,295 USD and a PDF corporate-wide license for $4,495 USD, For more information or to order the report, contact Rob Smith at 1-408-453-5553 or rsmith@mrgco.com.
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MRG Reports How IPTV Life after QoS Leads to Roadmap for Converged
(Multi-platform) Service & Increased ARPU
The Road to De-Siloization of Services Allows for Cost Reduction and Foundation Building
for Multi-platform Services, Using NGN, SDPs and (even) IMS
San Jose, CA: June 17, 2008—The much-hyped road to converged (multi-platform) IPTV services loops back and passes the starting point as MRG’s new IPTV infrastructure and service report provides a much needed roadmap to converged services for IPTV Operators to use in competing with Cable, Satellite and even Internet Video in the coming 5 years. “De-siloization,” or “silo-busting” of independent service operations is described in detail as one of the first phases on the new roadmap to multi-platform services.
“The purpose of this report was to identify if, when and how IPTV Operators would move to advanced and converged (multi-platform) services,” states Gary Schultz, President of MRG, Inc. “The reality we discovered is that the interim steps to converged services—de-siloization and unification of database elements of the back office—were quickly becoming vehicles for Operators to decrease OpEx and improve customer loyalty.” This very much parallels the gains achieved by taking on QoS and QoE components covered in earlier reports by MRG, making it possible for Operators to upgrade their infrastructure on a continuum along with increased customer satisfaction, increased revenue and decreased churn. Judicious use of Service Delivery Platforms (SDP), NGN (Next Generation Networks) and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) also is key to intelligent infrastructure upgrades while keeping control of CapEx.
By breaking the emerging multi-platform services into functional groups of Time-shifting, Place-shifting, Personalization, and Socialization, the report gives ample examples of what these services may look like on different playback platforms and regions of the world; and of what the infrastructure requirements will be to support the new features on various platforms.
An easy example is making theater ticket purchases possible on a home set-top box and transmitting the “ticket” to a barcode on the consumer’s mobile phone, so that the mobile phone can be scanned at the theatre to allow entry. This can only happen if the Operator has control of both platforms.
“The Millennial generation already expects video, personal communications and messaging services wherever they are, regardless of device or network,” said Steve Hawley, Sr. IPTV Analyst, MRG, Inc. “Operators that aren't transforming their service platforms to serve these ‘digital natives’ are already at a disadvantage.”
The report identifies the converged features and use-cases that are getting the most interest and traction among Operators. It also details the technology options and the subsequent steps that Operators can take to converge their separate voice, broadband, messaging, mobile and video service infrastructures, to provide silo-busting features and new revenue-streams.
Over 180 companies and IPTV Operators are featured in this full-scale analysis of the steps and standards needed to reach the next plateau of IPTV services, including Operators Deutsche Telecom, PCCW, Orange, and many others; and Vendors Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson/Tandberg, IBM, HP, Integra5, NSN, Motorola, Cisco, and many others.
The 298-page report, IPTV, IMS and the Emergence of Multi-Service Convergence — June 2008 is available in a printed English language edition for $3,495.00 USD, a PDF single-departmental license for $4,495.00 USD, and is available free as part of MRG's IPTV Tracking Service. For more information or to order the report, contact Rob Smith at 1-408-453-5553 or rsmith@mrgco.com.
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Resilience the New "R" Word in MRG's Bi-Annual Global IPTV Forecast
San Jose, CA: May 13, 2008—The new worldwide IPTV Forecast from MRG, Inc, the only bi-annual IPTV report based on over 600 IPTV Operators worldwide in over 70 countries, confirms that the increased revenues of Telcos and IPTV Operators remain in positive financial territory, and are not negatively impacted by the global turmoil in the credit, oil and housing sectors. The new forecast, based on most recently verified subscriber and revenue growth data, shows IPTV subscribers growing from 24.4 million to 92.8 million 2008-2012; and service revenue totaling $37.1 billion by 2012, with CapEx growing to $5.5 billion. While Europe’s subscriber size in 2012 will remain dominant, Asia’s subscriber base will nearly equal Europe’s in 2012, followed by North America.
By breaking down CapEx revenues into 7 sub-sectors (Access, Video-Headends, VOD, Set-top-Boxes, Middleware, CP/DRM, and System Integration) and into 4 regions, the forecast makes it easy for hardware/software suppliers to develop strategies, and refine marketing plans and partnerships around the best growth opportunities for their companies. By also breaking out expenditures of the top 75-80% of the IPTV Operators in each region, based on prevailing prices for each region, the report makes it easier to anticipate revenues and strategies for each of the top Operators in all 28 sub-sectors.
The report also reviews Mergers and Acquisition activity. “While the IPTV industry will continue on its M&A path toward consolidation in certain sub-sectors, such as DRM and Middleware,” states MRG President, Gary Schultz, “there is no question that the IPTV industry will see unique new mergers and partnerships in the next 3 years.”
“We believe strongly that IPTV as a technology and as a business is already having major impact on the entire Telecoms world, and will continue beyond 2012,” states Steve Hawley, Sr. IPTV Analyst of MRG, Inc. “The Telecoms sector is thriving partially because of distressed sectors like transportation, housing and fuel, while investment continues in advanced communications technologies.”
IPTV Global Forecast – 2008 to 2012 — April 2008 is 77 pages and is available in a printed English language edition for $3,995.00 USD, a PDF single-departmental license for $5,200.00 USD, and is available free as part of MRG's IPTV Tracking Service. For more information or to order the report, contact Rob Smith at 1-408-453-5553 or rsmith@mrgco.com.
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MRG's Global IPTV Market Leaders Report Reflects Market Resilience
San Jose, CA: April 2, 2008—MRG Inc. announces new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report -- March 2008, which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-segments based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 650 IPTV Operations. Surprisingly, continued growth of orders and deployments are defying the global credit crisis as reflected by increased deployments of IPTV products in Europe, Asia, Rest of World, and even in North America.
The new global leaders in each of the 6 product segments are Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, SeaChange and Verimatrix, with 2 each for Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent. While the global market leadership has under 20% change since the last report in September 2007, more shifts and changes are occurring within the regional segments, as companies refine their strategies and/or absorb other companies. "The jockeying within the regional segments reflects a refinement of the regional marketing and product strategies of each of over 120 ranked companies," says Gary Schultz, MRG President. "Partnerships are deepening and companies are developing more niche products appropriate to local needs, which drives
local growth."
"Even though the IPTV market is still small by comparison with cable and satellite, the market for goods and services is stabilizing," states Len Feldman, Director of IPTV Analysis for MRG. "The majority of Tier-1 Service Providers around the world have already made their main supply choices for access ports, set-top boxes, Video-on-Demand systems and other products, and are now securing second or third sources. The vendors that haven't locked in very many Tier-1 customers have diminishing options for growth."
This report provides unmatched granularity in the IPTV market niches and nuances that really count the most. The positioning and strategies within the regional sectors is where most companies are targeting their energies, using this report as a navigation tool in an increasingly crowded market. Other regionally-ranked Number-One companies include NEC, TANDBERG, Harmonic, Thomson, Yuxing, Cascade, Sagem, Tellabs, Nokia Siemens Networks, BitBand, Amino, and NDS.
More details are available at: www.mrgco.com/iptv/mlr0308.html Or, contact Rob Smith at MRG, rsmith@mrgco.com, or, telephone 1-408-453-5553 (San Jose, CA, USA). The price of this 73-page (indexed) report is $3,995 USD for a printed copy, and $5,200 USD for a PDF format Departmental License. It is free for subscribers to the IPTV Tracking Service.
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MRG's New IPTV Report Dissects Monitoring
and Management Market for QoS and QoE
London, UK—11 March, 2008—MRG’s Monitoring and Managing QoS/QoE for IPTV Report helps simplify the pursuit of Video Quality, Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) as they relate to the design and operation of IPTV services. Created primarily for IPTV Operators, Technical Specialists and Test/Monitoring & Management (TM&M) Executives, this report goes far beyond what has been traditionally covered in Video Quality of Service Analyses.
“This report offers insightful and thoughtful methods to exploit the natural advantages of IP in ways that can be seen and appreciated by the customer,” says Steve Hawley, MRG Analyst and author. “It addresses the main pressure-points and data hand-offs that make up the majority of QoS and QoE problems.”
Based on analysis of best practices of over 30 vendors and Service Providers, the report illustrates how Operators are actually using TM&M to improve customer retention and scale quickly to new subscriber bases. “Even a small TM&M budget of $3-$6 per sub per year is likely to return many times that investment in customer retention,” states Gary Schultz, MRG’s President.
Other key findings include:
- Pre-deployment testing is one of the best investments an IPTV Operator can make at any time, because it helps anticipate new pressure-points due to added services and subscriber usage.
- It’s best to design your testing system architecture on one of four levels of service covered in this report—Basic, Intermediate, Advanced or Converged, keeping in mind how the system will change over the next 3-5 years.
- QoS and QoE measurements roughly match the OSI Layers; for example, QoE actually is achieved both through objective and subjective measurements, with objective measurements done in OSI Layers 4-7.
Included are best-practices profiles of France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and Consolidated-Communications; and vendor profiles of Agilent, Ineoquest, Ixia, Shenick, Spirent, Symmetricom, Tektronix and many others; products are broken into Pre-deployment and Post-deployment stages, and into (location) categories of Headend, Network, Home/CPE, and Portable/Handheld.
The 252-page report, Monitoring & Managing QoS/QoE for IPTV-January 2008, is available for $2,995.00 USD (printed); or $3995.00 USD (PDF single-departmental license); or is available free as part of MRG’s IPTV Tracking Service. For more information or to order the report or a Corporate License contact Rob Smith at 1-408-453-5553 or rsmith@mrgco.com.
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Control of IPTV Home Network Improves OpEx & Future Revenue Opportunities
MRG's Report Describes Next Battlefield for Dominance
San Jose, CA—March 3, 2008— A new report from MRG, IPTV Home Networking Strategies, 2008, explores the strategic importance of the Home Network for IPTV Operators. It reveals how effective Home Networking (HN) strategies can improve the competitiveness of an IPTV Operator against Cable and Satellite, reposition the IPTV Operator in the growing battle against the PC and CE (consumer electronics) industries, and can reduce operational expenses (OpEx) through use of best-practices for installing and managing the Home Network. By improving their monitoring and management of the Home Network, IPTV Operators can position themselves for future converged services while reducing OpEx today.
“Winning at the IPTV Home Network game requires a three-prong strategy,” states Jose Alvear, IPTV Analyst at MRG. “Operators need a flexible approach to the physical network in the home along with strong commitment to managing the Home Network and using it as a platform for delivering a rich set of services.”
By examining the HN standards used by the top Operators, the report suggests various strategies and architectures for interconnecting both AV (Audio-Visual) and PC devices in the home, while reducing OpEx and improving opportunities for each strategy.
The report also reviews the results of a survey sent to the top 60 (global) IPTV Operators about home installation best-practices and methods for driving down OpEx. Survey results show that installation times for single- and multiple-TV set households vary significantly across various networking technologies, and across various geographical locations. Also, described are best-practices for cost-cutting, effective training, effective staffing, equipping and management of home installation teams that can have major impact on OpEx.
While there is strong interest in the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard and powerline, no single approach has become dominant; but trends are beginning to emerge. Organizations interviewed include major IPTV Operators, CEA, Cisco/SA, CopperGate, DLNA, DSL Forum, DS2, DVB, Entropic, HANA, HomePlug Powerline Alliance, HomePNA, Intel, MoCA, Ruckus, Siemens, Texas Instruments, UPnP and others.
The 67-page IPTV Home Networking Strategies Report, February 2008 is available in a printed version for $1,995US, as a PDF departmental license for $2995US, and is free as part of the IPTV Tracking Service. To order this report or for more information, contact Rob Smith at rsmith@mrgco.com (1-408-453-5553).
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IPTV Test & Measurement Report Demystifies
Global IPTV Quality Operations
San Jose, CA—January 7, 2008— MRG’s new IPTV Test, Measurement & Monitoring (TM&M) Report helps simplify the pursuit of Video Quality, Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) as they relate to the design and operation of IPTV services. Created primarily for IPTV Operators, Technical Specialists and TM&M Vendors, this report goes far beyond what has been traditionally covered in Video Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Quality of Experience.
“This report offers smart and thoughtful methods to exploit the natural advantages of IP in ways that can be seen and appreciated by the customer,” says Steve Hawley, MRG Analyst and author. “It addresses the main pressure-points and data hand-offs that make up the majority of QoS and QoE problems.”
Based on analysis of best practices of over 30 vendors and service providers, the report illustrates how Operators are actually using TM&M to improve customer retention and scale quickly to new subscriber bases. “Even a small TM&M budget of $3-$6 per sub per year is likely to return many times that investment in customer retention or added revenues,” states Gary Schultz, MRG’s CEO.
Other key findings include:
- Pre-deployment testing is one of the best investments an IPTV Operator can make at any time, because it helps anticipate new pressure-points due to added services and subscriber usage.
- It’s best to design your testing system architecture on one of four levels of service covered in this report—Basic, Intermediate, Advanced or Converged, keeping in mind how the system will change over the next 3-5 years.
- QoS and QoE measurements roughly match the OSI Layers; for example, QoE actually is achieved both through objective and subjective measurements, with objective measurements done in OSI Layers 4-7.
Included are best-practices profiles of France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and Consolidated-Communications; and vendor profiles of Agilent, Ineoquest, Ixia, Shenick, Spirent, Symmetricom, Tektronix and many others; products are broken into Pre-deployment and Post-deployment stages, and into (location) categories of Headend, Network, Home/CPE, and Portable/Handheld.
The (252-page) IPTV Test, Measurement & Monitoring—January 2008 report is available in printed format for $3,995.00 US; as a Single-Departmental PDF license for $5,200.00 US; and is available free as part of MRG’s IPTV Tracking Service. For more information or to order the report or a Corporate License contact Rob Smith at 1-408-453-5553 or rsmith@mrgco.com.
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