SEPTEMBER 7, 2006 -- The global IP video test and measurement market earned revenues of $52.2 million in 2005 and is likely to reach $289 million by 2010, contends a new report from Frost & Sullivan.
With telecom and cable TV companies aggressively offering triple-play services, there is a rising trend among test equipment and solution vendors to offer IPTV (search IPTV) test capability "within the same box," say analysts. Telecom companies are increasingly launching VoIP and offering bundled video, data, and voice services to meet the intense competition from cable TV providers and the growing migration of customers to VoIP-based telephony and wireless networks.
In a related report, Front & Sullivan analysts reveal that revenue in the worldwide cable TV test equipment market topped $535 million in 2005 and is expected to reach
$755 million by 2012.
Both telecom operators and cable TV operators are battling it out to win subscribers. A triple-play strategy that efficiently bundles voice, video and data services could prove a key determinant of the consumer's eventual choice. Hence, the need for quality triple-play services is promoting the growth of the global CATV test equipment market, and ongoing advances in communication applications have further alerted the CATV test equipment market to the importance of equipment developments and upgrades, say Frost & Sullivan analysts.
Triple-play services are likely to have a high impact on the CATV test equipment market. With the increasing use of fiber-optic based technologies, demand for optical time domain reflectometers (search OTDR) is increasing, mainly due to the growing uptake of high-definition television (HDTV), Internet protocol-based television (IPTV), fiber-to-the-curb/home/premise (FTTx), as well as other fiber-optic-based technologies.
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