MRG’s latest IPTV report notes market resilience

April 3, 2008 – US market research firm MRG has released its latest report on the global IPTV market, tracking the top technology vendors in six product segments, and notes that “surprisingly, continued growth of orders and deployments are defying the global credit crisis”.

The new global leaders in each of the six product segments are Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Verimatrix and SeaChange, with two pole positions each for Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent.  The report states, that while the global market leadership has changed less than 20% since the last report in September of last year, more shifts and changes are occurring within the regional segments as companies refine their strategies and/or absorb other firms.

“The jockeying within the regional segments reflects a refinement of the regional marketing and product strategies of each of over 120 ranked companies,” said Gary Schultz, President of MRG.  “Partnerships are deepening and companies are developing more niche products appropriate to their local needs, which drives local growth.”

Len Feldman, Director of IPTV Analysis for MRG, goes on to say that: “The majority of Tier-1 Service providers around the world have already made their main supply choices… the vendors that haven’t locked in very many Tier-1 customers have diminishing options for growth.”

Companies ranked number one by region include NEC, TANDBERG Television, Harmonic, Thomson, Yuxing, Cascade, Sagem, Tellabs, Nokia Siemens Networks, BitBand, Amino and NDS.

The report, entitled “Global IPTV Market Leaders Report – March 2008”, tracked the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-segments, based on an installed base of six video systems products in over 650 IPTV deployments.