SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today enhanced its next-generation video network platform with the acquisition of Vertasent, LLC.

Based in Colmar, Pa., Vertasent is a privately-held developer of software applications that enables services such as content-on-demand or IPTV to share resources and be delivered over a common infrastructure. Vertasent's applications manage the elements in a "switched" digital video network -- a key area of interest for cable operators. A switched video architecture can increase available bandwidth in a cable network by dynamically transmitting only those channels currently being watched in a given neighborhood. "Over the past several years, consumer demand for advanced video services, such as Video-on-Demand and High-Definition TV (HDTV) service, has risen rapidly. In response, pay-TV service providers are broadening the availability of many advanced services in order to reach a wider array of home and mobile devices," according to Mike Paxton, a cable TV industry analyst at In-Stat, a leading technology research firm.

"Motorola's acquisition of Vertasent, coupled with its purchase of Broadbus Technologies earlier this summer, now allows the company to provide pay-TV service providers with an end-to-end, open standards hardware and software portfolio that supports advanced video services and improves bandwidth management," said Paxton.

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