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Research and Markets: Cisco's Move to Selling Set-Top-Box Business and It's Implications
[October 06, 2015]

Research and Markets: Cisco's Move to Selling Set-Top-Box Business and It's Implications


Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/kxk33b/ciscos_move_to) has announced the addition of the "Cisco's Move to Selling Set-Top-Box Business and Its Implications" report to their offering.

The global STB (Set-Top Box (News - Alert)) market has undergone several M&As so far this year, including the acquisition of UK-based STB brand Pace in April by Arris, a tier-one supplier of full-line broadband communications equipment, for US$2.1 billion. Later in July, Cisco (News - Alert) announced that the company signed an agreement with Technicolor, a European broadband communications equipment brand, under which the latter will take over Cisco's STB and cable modem businesses. This report provides an overview of Technicolor's acquisition of Cisco's STB business and examines motivations behind such move, and its impacts on the global STB industry.

List of Topics



- Background of Cisco's decision to selling its STB business to Technicolor

- Analysis of motivation behind Cisco's move and includes revenues of Cisco's service provider video division for the period 1Q 2013-4Q 2015


- Analysis of the impact of such incident on the STB market and industry

Key Topics Covered:

1. Background

2. Motivation Analysis

2.1 Price Competition in the US STB Market to Intensify

2.2 IPTV (News - Alert) Growth Cools Down as Major Carriers Switch to Mobile Video Service

2.3 Cisco Strengthening Mainstay Products to Counter Market Changes Led by SDN and NFV Technologies

3. Impact Evaluation

3.1 Influence on Market: Video Service Market Leaning Towards Direct-to-Customer Model

3.2 Influence on Industry: Cisco Takes Aim at Cloud-based Video Market

Appendix

Glossary of Terms

Companies Mentioned

- ActiveVideo

- Apple

- Arris

- AT&T

- Charter

- Cisco

- Comcast (News - Alert)

- Echostar

- Humax

- Linksys

- Motorola

- Netflix

- Pace

- RDK Management LLC

- Samsung (News - Alert)

- Scientific Atlanta

- Technicolor

- Time Warner Cable

- Verizon

- YouTube

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/kxk33b/ciscos_move_to


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