Friday, August 15, 2003
The IP/DSL set top box market has been a small one since its inception in the late 1990s when box vendors received orders for only several thousand boxes at a time. In 2002, this began to change and today, a few vendors have received orders at the hundred thousand level. The increases in orders will translate to IP/DSL set top unit shipments reaching 500,000 in 2003 and surpassing one million in 2004.
In-Stat/MDR has found that:
- Several new box vendors, mainly from Asia, have introduced IP/DSL set top boxes in the last year. Additionally, several have left the market, either due to bankruptcy or only having the resources to focus on a niche market, such as education, for their products.
- Flexibility is still important to this market. Many vendors offer various, integrated DSL modem options via a PCI slot on the motherboard. Several boxes use programmable media processors to offer providers options in video compression besides MPEG-2.
- Through 2007, the Asian and European markets will each be larger than North America due to the larger number of deployments in those regions.
By: DocMemory
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