Pace is leading the global set-top boxes (STBs) revenue market in 2013, ahead of Cisco and Arris, said Infonetics Research.
Arris claimed the revenue share lead in Q4 2013, while enterprise IT vendor Cisco, on the strength of its telecom IP STB sales, finished second in STB revenue in 2013.
The global STB market including IP/cable/satellite/DTT STBs and OTT media servers decreased 10 percent to $18 billion in 2013.
The use of OTT media servers is growing for consumer multimedia use in the home and service providers delivering pay-TV services as an app over a broadband connection, said Infonetics Research.
Cable and satellite video gateways had a very strong year, with shipments growing 333 percent and 98 percent, respectively.
Jeff Heynen, principal analyst for broadband access and pay TV at Infonetics Research, said: “Video gateways collapse the STB and broadband CPE into a single device, and it’s for this reason we expect to see a long-term shift to these devices, at least in North America, to reduce capex in multiple TV set homes.”
Infonetics expects global IP video gateway revenue to grow at a 79 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2013 to 2018.
