Monday 25 February 2013

Digitisation: Cisco ships 1.3 mn STBs to India in Q4

Cisco, which acquired NDS, has won a significant standard definition (SD) set-top box business in India for the quarter ending January, benefitting fr0m India's move towards mandatory digitisation. 
Cisco shipped 1.3 million boxes in the fourth quarter compared with 850,000 in the trailing three-month period, with a large portion of the increase coming fr0m India. 

Cisco CEO John Chambers remarked that the company has “been more selective in the business we are taking in terms of set-top boxes and the lowest margin set-top box business in particular.” 
ABI Research's Set-Top Box Database has provided further details. 
Chinese set-top box manufacturers ChangHong and Jiuzhou surged in unit shipments in the third quarter of 2012 and together grew 66 per cent sequentially to nearly 5 million units fr0m 3 million in the prior quarter. The tracked market grew approximately 10 per cent worldwide. 
ChangHong serves primarily the Asian markets, while Jiuzhou has more of a mix of domestic and international business.

Source:
http://cablequest.org/news/cable-news/item/2182-digitisation-cisco-ships-1-3-mn-stbs-to-india-in-q4.htmlSource: http://cablequest.org/news/cable-news/item/2182-digitisation-cisco-ships-1-3-mn-stbs-to-india-in-q4.html

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