It becomes clearer by the day that both Cisco and Motorola are unhurriedly building a full IPTV suit through acquisition and partnership and Motorola added IP DSLAMs to its portfolio in a partnership deal cut this week with Israeli telecommunications supplier ECI.
This may be a precursor to an eventual acquisition but either way Motorola is one step closer to being able to nail down the infrastructure for IPTV services in the network,
Motorola bought encoder business Tut Systems in January, and VoD applications house Vertasent in January. Motorola had already bought IPTV set top maker Kreatel in January 2006, and followed this in July with the purchase of VoD innovator Broadbus that invented a way of serving VoD files from huge caches of RAM.
The deal pairs ECI’s IP DSLAM portfolio with Motorola’s innovative and market-leading Fiber-to-the-Node and Fiber-to-the-Premises offerings. ECI is one of the long term innovators in DSLAMs and has a substantial installed base, especially in the European market.