Digital Video Headends & Distribution Hubs Creating A Gold Rush Opportunity

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In-Stat: The various categories of Digital Video Headends, and their Gigabit Ethernet components, are on a fast growth track and are expected to surge past $2.6 billion by 2009. Compared with indicators from other telecom segments, this segment’s projected Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 32.3% through 2009 is astounding. New Digital Video Headends and upgrading of existing facilities will reinvigorate the business of many major telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Cable TV systems are embracing Gigabit Ethernet, and major telcos are creating fully converged Digital Video Headend and Distribution Hub infrastructures that will help service providers make more money. A gold rush of opportunities is about to begin.

• Gigabit Ethernet provides fully converged IP networks that are capable of delivering multiple services beyond the “triple play” of video, voice, and high-speed data

• Cable TV and IPTV (also known as TelcoTV) services need to extend their brands beyond consumers’ TV sets, and new GigE networks create the kind of flexible infrastructure that permits "Content" to become portable

• High Definition TV (HDTV) and “On Demand” services are complicating bandwidth issues for Cable TV and IPTV services, creating demand for IP video equipment

• Emerging opportunities in Europe and Asia will spur growth forward

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