The deal between Arris this week and Canada’s Espial, is really end of life support for a network DVR, which is surplus to requirements at Arris. It is terminated in a device called the Whole Home Solution, a device sold mostly to smaller US cable operators such as Wide Open West and incumbent telcos like Comporium, using CableCard for authentication. We know from discussions around the Open Set Top initiative of the FCC than only 600,000 devices with CableCard authentication were ever sold, so we imagine this agreement takes in about half that number (on the basis that Motorola had around a 50% market share when it was introduced). What Espial is getting is the streaming side of the equation…