While we aren’t providing quarterly shipment data for Motorola’s FTTH or home devices, you can find the 2011 Q3 CMTS shipment results below. To review data from previous quarters, click on the “Category” tab to the left and select “Quarterly Shipment Numbers.”
Note: If you are an industry analyst with questions, feel free to drop a line to: kalia.farrell@motorola.com
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Altibox, the Norwegian service provider, will soon bring an enhanced viewing experience to Altibox customers with the Motorola VAP2400 wireless video bridge. Announced back in April, this device wirelessly streams HD video content to multiple TVs throughout the home. To date, the installation of multi-room video services has relied on unsightly wires running through the home, not to mention they tend to be unreliable and costly. Easy to set-up, the VAP2400 enables service providers to reduce installation costs creating cost savings which can be passed directly to the consumer. Click here for today’s press release.
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Cable and telecom experts spent three days discussing industry issues at the 10th Annual TelcoTV Conference that took place inNew Orleans this week. Eric Bruno, VP of Product Management at Verizon Communications, was the keynote speaker and emphasized the relevance of over-the-top video and the increasing consumer demand for home automation. In fact, Verizon Communications took home one of the 2011 Vision Awards for its FiOS Home Monitoring and Control system powered by Motorola 4Home. In his speech, Bruno also points out the growing number of IP-connected devices that fragments the traditional linear TV viewing experience. For instance, his family of 5 has access to 21 different IP-connected devices! This emergence of tablets also necessitates an increase in bandwidth. A study by Bytemobile shows that users are spending more time watching mobile video at higher resolutions and operators are diligently working to accommodate this surge in demand.
In other news, Kristin Frank, general manager of VH1 and MTV Digital, shares the enormous opportunities social media provide advertisers and programmers, comparing the real-time social media buzz to a global “watercooler” conversation. She adds that the linkage between TV and social media is the only way to keep your audience engaged, interested and entertained.
1. TelcoTV Announces 2011 Vision Award Winners(Oct. 27) – Light Reading: TelcoTV, the largest video conference and expo focused on the U.S. service provider market, today announced the winners of the fourth annual TelcoTV Vision Awards.
2. Verizon’s Over-the-Top Home Control (Oct. 26) – Light Reading: Verizon Communications Inc. intends to start selling its new home control and security product nationwide sometime next year, company VP of Product Management Eric Bruno.
3. More tablets means video hogs even more bandwidth (Oct. 24) – By Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM: Time for mobile operators to hit the panic button — mobile video use is increasing across their networks and users are choosing to watch higher resolution clips when they sit down for a video-watching session.
4. Social media’s power to amplify TV programming (Oct. 24) – By Kristin Frank, MTV and VH1 Digital: Social media platforms are providing TV networks with new screens to program to drive even greater engagement and advertiser benefit.
5. Twitter and TV Get Close to Help Each Other Grow (Oct. 25) – By Brian Stelter, The New York Times: Type the term “X Factor” into Twitter’s search engine on a Thursday night and within moments, hundreds of viewer compliments and complaints about show will appear.
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Motorola Mobility, Inc. issued its third-quarter 2011 earnings results today. Net revenues are $3.3 billion in the third quarter of 2011, up 11 percent from the third quarter of 2010. Mobile Devices net revenues in the third quarter were $2.4 billion, up 20 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. Home segment net revenues in the third quarter were $825 million, down 10 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. Here are some Home highlights:
See here for today’s press release.
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Motorola Mobility took part of the 10th annual TelcoTV 2011 show in New Orleans, LA this week, demoing cloud based solutions, IP set-tops, managed services, networks and more! Take a look at some of our booth photos below.
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The 2011 SMPTE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, an annual event known for technology, production and operations in the motion imaging industry is taking place October 25-27 in CA. The conference will be celebrating the achievements of several industry influencers including Motorola Mobility’s Sean McCarthy, Ph.D. Sean received an award for the article, “A Biological Framework for Perceptual Video Processing and Compression” published in the Nov/Dec 2010 issue of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. Perceptual video processing aka PVP is used in Motorola’s next-gen encoding platform to improve compression and decrease the bandwidth needed to transmit high-definition television. Check out a past video from Sean speaking more on his paper.
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Author: Kevin Wirick, Vice President and General Manager, Video Processing Solutions
When HD television was commercialized, there were those who couldn’t imagine the need for it, and those who rapidly took to the task of measuring pixel quality and comparing HD streams across different programmers and providers. In delivering TV to the latter group, it has always been a challenge to balance quality concerns with bandwidth limitations—it’s the age old question of Quantity vs. Quality. In truth, consumers deserve both, and the more competitive the market gets, the more providers need new, innovative encoders that can help them give consumers a wide selection of great experiences.
Today, Motorola is demonstrating HD video encoding technology that improves compression efficiency enough that operators can suddenly consider adding more channels to existing QAMs and satellite transponders even as they deliver better video quality. We’ve done this by adding new patented technology to our SE-6000 encoders so that bits are allocated to the parts of a video picture that are most important. It’s part of our perceptual video processing (PVP) technology. We can selectively attenuate details in an image that are both hard to perceive and hard to compress. This helps us reduce the number of bits needed to render an image, while also improving image quality.
Prioritizing certain parts of an image over others is called Adaptive Detail Preservation (ADP). ADP can improve bandwidth up to 50 percent for difficult images with high-energy background motion, and it creates an average bandwidth savings of around 20 percent.
Equally important, the use of ADP – and PVP as a whole – can improve the video playback experience for viewers. In addition to enhancing certain aspects of an image, the technology helps improve channel sharing by ensuring that individual streams in a QAM don’t interfere with each other and degrade performance.
Combined with MPEG-4 compression, our latest HD video encoding technologies baked into the SE-6000 can bring the load of a single HD stream to five megabits per second or less for some types of content. As narrowcast video demand grows, this increased efficiency makes it possible to continue adding to content libraries, improving service value.
For more information on the science behind perceptual video processing, view this video from my colleague, Sean McCarthy.
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News from the Motorola Mobility’s 4Home and Verizon home monitoring announcement continues to garner great interest this week. Motorola’s Leon Hounshell, division general manager of managed home solutions, shares his perspective on Verizon’s blog about their new smart home service: Making the Smart Home Simple. Last Thursday, Fierce Telecom also highlighted the role of home monitoring within the IP ecosystem and the 4Home/Verizon announcement. Bookman points out that ABI Research estimates there are 572,000 subscribers currently using home automation services provided by telcos and cable companies, which the firm expects to increase to 12 million by 2016. “Smarter homes” are also featured in a PC World article about how our society is headed towards “A Smarter Everything,” as items from smartphones to washing machines can be connected.
Motorola’s mobile devices team made major headlines with week with the launch of the new DROID RAZR smartphone as featured CNBC article and video interview with CEO Sanjay Jha. And now it’s even easier to stream movies on your Motorola XOOM due to Netflix’s free Android application for Honeycomb tablets. According to a Nielsen study, half ofU.S. consumers watch online streaming video and spend more and more time doing it. How about you, when and where do you stream video? And what would you most like about having a smarter connected home?
1. Where does home monitoring fit in the telco ecosystem? (Oct. 20) – By Samantha Bookman, FierceTelecom
2. Is Your Car Tweeting? — What’s Next for Connected Devices (Oct. 16) – By Armando Rodriguez, PC World
3. Motorola Mobility Going Back to Future With Razr: CEO (Oct.18) – By Margo D. Beller, CNBC
4. Netflix adds Android app support for Honeycomb tablets (Oct. 19) – By Ryan Lawler, GigaOM
5. Half of Americans Watch Online Video: Nielsen (Oct. 20) – By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News
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Last week in Florida, Advanced Media Technologies aka AMT held a Value Added Resellers aka VAR Symposium in conjunction with Motorola Mobility. This symposium takes on new energy as Passive Optical LAN (POL) is gaining traction across all key enterprise verticals and the promise of significant reduction in LAN TCO is proven. The AMT executive team was joined by leading executives from Motorola’s POL business including Joe Cozzolino who keynoted about energizing the distribution channel for VARs. Joe touched on the state of the business, key vertical successes and market behaviors.
As Motorola’s largest stocking distributor, AMT continues to fulfill POL product requirements directly to VARs, along with additional products and services offered by AMT that will compliment end user specific solution and technical requirements. In North America, Latin America and Canada, AMT’s authorized resellers are generating new revenue opportunities by bundling together POL technology and associated design, deployment and service capabilities. POL architecture is inherently flexible and can cost effectively serve enterprises of most any size – both in greenfield and brownfield LAN deployment situations. With POL, enterprises are re-thinking the way networks are deployed and are eliminating costs associated with all aspects of LAN operations including service agreements, power, cooling, telco closets and maintenance – a truly green solution.
Want to learn more about the VAR program? Reach out to Dave Swan @ 888-293-5856 EXT:289 or check out their website www.amt.com. Take a look at some photos below from the event.
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Yesterday was a busy day for our colleagues in Mobile Devices who unveiled in a NY press conference two new Motorola devices. Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, took the stage and announced MOTOACTV- a lightweight, wearable fitness performance tracker and smart music player and the DROID RAZR–the world’s thinnest 4G LTE smartphone running on Verizon’s network. The DROID RAZR has some great specs… It measures 7.1 mm thin, made with KEVLAR fiber for strength and Corning Gorilla Glass for scratch resistance, powered by Android 2.3.5, Gingerbread, includes a 8-megapixel rear camera with 1080p HD video capture, 32 GB memory–16 GB on board and 16 GB microSD card pre-installed and much more. The new Motorola phone is equipped with MotoCast, a new app that lets you access content stored on your home or work computer securely. Users can stream or download their music, pictures and more from their PC to phone. Check out more information here on the announcements.
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