Telecom Lead Asia: Cisco is leading the STB market in 2012, ahead of Motorola and Pace.
Cisco reported 28 percent increase in STB revenue in 2012.
Motorola’s sales declined by double digits in 2012, mainly due to the entry of new companies – especially Pace and Samsung — in the North American market.
The STB market, including IP, cable, satellite, and DTT STBs, totaled $4.6 billion in 4Q12, up 3 percent sequentially.
Sales of over-the-top (OTT) media servers spiked 25 percent in 2012, with much of the growth coming from Apple TV.
Infonetics last week said it expects the global STB market to grow to $26 billion in 2017.
Julien Blin, directing analyst for consumer electronics and mobile broadband at Infonetics Research, said: “STB revenue grew almost 10 percent in 2012, a considerable rebound from a year ago, and will remain healthy in the near term as operators in China, India, and Latin America add digital services.”
Video gateways and media players will be the real standouts moving forward, as North American and European cable and satellite providers transition away from digital STBs.
Video gateways will grow from 1 percent of total cable and satellite STB shipments in 2012 to 16 percent by 2017, and to see strong double- and triple-digit annual growth in media player shipments every year at least through then.
