According to In-Stat Cable TV Infrastructure Market Driven by Three-Screen Quest and Fixed Mobile Convergence.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The worldwide cable TV industry is in a race to provision a "three-screen" service that starts with HDTV sets, maps over to broadband-connected PCs, and follows subscribers around during the day on cell phones or other portable devices, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). As a result, the high-tech market research firm expects strong, continued growth in cable TV infrastructure equipment with sales rising from about US$925.4 million during 2006 to more than US$2.1 billion in 2010.

"The cable TV industry is working diligently to connect all the infrastructure dots in the race to provision a three-screen telecommunications service," says Gerry Kaufhold, In-Stat analyst. "System operators are building out Super Headends and upgrading Local Headends to provide the economies of scale needed to provide the greatest number of services, over the greatest geographical reach, at the lowest possible cost. Fixed Mobile Convergence, or FMC, will become a fast-growing market for cable operators, and they will disrupt the cell phone industry."

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

* High Definition TV services and Video-on-Demand are expanding, driving plant upgrades for improved Gigabit Ethernet video switches, Switched Digital Video (SDV), more QAM channels, and widening deployments of 1 GHz Final Mile equipment.

* Modular Cable Modem Termination Systems (Modular CMTS) and wide band cable modems are being brought into play to upgrade High Speed Data services to compete against telephone companies' ADSL, VDSL, and Fiber-to-the-Home.

* Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner and Advance/Newhouse have a joint venture with Sprint Nextel that will begin offering cable-branded cellular phone services later this year in the US. Later on, Fixed Mobile Convergence will add innovative video services and wireless extensions to the Cable TV infrastructure, and disrupt the cell phone market.

* The cable TV industry is rapidly deploying Voice-over-IP services.

The research, "Cable TV Head-Ends: Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Powers Cable TV Counterpunch to IPTV" (#IN0603163MBI), covers the worldwide market for cable TV infrastructure. It provides detailed forecasts, in four geographic regions, through 2010 for the number of newly-built and upgraded Super Headends, Local Headends, QAM Hubs, and FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) infrastructures. It covers only larger systems that will be investing at least US$200,000 in any annual project. The report also includes in-depth profiles of the major companies that design, manufacture, install and maintain Cable TV infrastructure equipment.

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