Cable Television Infrastructure

Headend, Spectrum, Subscribers, STB, DOCSIS 3.0, tru2way, and Revenue Analysis

This study provides an overview of the CATV infrastructure market. It includes forecast analysis of headend video equipment, CATV network plant, STB deployments, and bandwidth/spectrum expansion.

It includes an assessment of revenue development across video, voice, data, and business services, and addresses business issues such as competition from satellite and telecom players, changing viewing patterns, and new services such as VOD, time-shifting, HD, and bandwidth expansion.

What Questions Does This Report Answer?

What services are driving CATV growth?
How quickly is the industry growing?
What competition is on the horizon for CATV operators?
Where will revenue growth come from?
How are STBs developing?
What role will IPTV technology play in the cable industry?
How will operators grow their cable plants?
What investment will be made into spectrum/bandwidth expansion?
Who is supplying cable operators with equipment?

Who Needs This Report?

CATV operators
CATV competitors
STB vendors
Chip vendors
Infrastructure vendors
Plant manufacturers
Financial community

1.1. CATV Industry Drivers
1.2. CATV Revenue Drivers
2.1. CATV Market Growth
2.1.1. Digital CATV Subscriber Growth
2.1.2. Non-Video Residential Services Subscriber Growth
2.2. Competing Video and Multi-Play Services Platforms
2.2.1. DBS Competition
2.2.2. Telco Competition
2.2.3. OTT-Internet Competition
2.3. CATV Residential Video Service Revenue
2.3.1. Video Revenues — Analog and Digital Linear, VOD, DVR/PVR
2.3.2. Voice Revenues
2.3.3. Broadband High-Speed Internet (HSI) Revenues
2.4. Other Services: Business and Commercial
2.5. Set-Top Box Market Developments
2.5.1. Downloadable/Embedded Security Developments
2.6. CableCARD, DCRTV, and iDTV Market Developments
2.7. OCAP/tru2way Market Developments
2.8. DOCSIS 3.0 Market Developments
2.8.1. Vendor Certifications Update
2.8.2. CATV Operators Update
2.9. Switched Digital Video Developments
2.10. Quadruple Play: Mobile Service Addition Developments
2.11. Regulations Update
2.12. Other World Regions
3.1. CATV Headend Developments
3.2. Cable Modem Termination Systems
3.3. Cable Video Servers
3.3.1. VOD Servers
3.3.2. nDVR Infrastructure Impacts
3.3.2.1. Network
3.3.2.2. Premises
3.4. Advanced Advertising
3.5. Cable Bandwidth Reclamation and Expansion Analysis
3.5.1. CATV System Channel Capacities — Current and Future
3.5.2. Growth in HHP (Households Passed) with Bandwidth Upgrades
3.5.3. Overview of Bandwidth Expansion Solutions
3.5.3.1. Rate Shaping
3.5.3.2. HFC Bandwidth Upgrades
3.5.3.3. Upgrading to Either 870 MHz or 1 GHz
3.5.3.4. Switched Digital Video
3.5.3.5. PON Overlay
3.5.3.6. CPE-Centric Solutions
3.5.3.7. MPEG-4 Compression
4.1. Digital CATV Subscribers
4.2. CATV Gateway Analysis
4.3. CATV STB Analysis
4.3.1. Basic STB Analysis
4.3.2. HD-Only STB Analysis
4.3.3. PVR-Only STB Analysis
4.3.4. HD/PVR Combined STB Analysis
5.1. High-Speed Internet Subscribers
5.2. DOCSIS 3.0 Modems
5.3. DOCSIS 3.0 Residential Gateways
5.4. DOCSIS 3.0 STBs
6.1. Worldwide CATV Capital Expenditure Spending

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