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Service Provider Video
Our end-to-end, digital video systems and digital interactive, subscriber devices and Data Over Cable System Interface
Specification(DOCSIS) headend and access equipment enable service providers and content originators to deliver entertainment,
information, and communication services to consumers and businesses around the world. Key product areas within our Service
Provider Video category are as follows:
Service Provider Video Infrastructure and Cable Access Service Provider Video Software and Solutions
Set-top boxes: • Content security systems
• Digital cable and IP set-top boxes • Digital content management and distribution products
• Video gateways • Digital headend products
• Digital transport adapters • Virtualized video processing systems
Cable modems: • Integration and customization offerings
• Data modems • Cloud-based end-to-end video entertainment solutions
• Embedded media terminal adapters
• Wireless gateways
Connected Life platforms
Cable/Telecommunications Access Infrastructure:
• Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs)
• Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) access network products
• Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) products
During fiscal 2015, we began to transform our Service Provider Video portfolio. We began shipping our ultra-fast DOCSIS cable
access platform, the cBR-8, which has the capability to scale to multi-gigabit broadband access speeds. We also began the
transformation of our video software products to leverage cloud and virtualization technologies and open software. Also, in fiscal
2015, an increasing proportion of our in-home video and data access devices that were sold possessed the capability to run
advanced, cloud-based and open software platforms.
On July 22, 2015, we entered into an exclusive agreement to sell the client premises equipment portion of our Service Provider
Video connected devices business unit to French-based Technicolor. We will continue to refocus our investments in our Service
Provider Video towards cloud, security and software-based services.
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