Motorola Plays Host to Microsoft IPTV

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upand2theright 12/5/2012 | 4:18:17 PM

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MOT's solution is a non-starter.  Microsoft Mediaroom has minimum connectivity requirements of 20-25 mbps.   That's fine for Tier One carriers with fiber access to the home.  But 90+ percent of tier 2 and tier 3 carriers in North America have broadband connections well under 5 mbps.    Simply put, MOT is introducing a Mediaroom solution that most carriers will never be able to use.   Lucy, you got some splainin to do ...

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ycurrent 12/5/2012 | 4:18:17 PM

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you'd be surprised at how much fiber exists among lower tier operators... not to mention that what works for AT&T should work for them too.

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ycurrent 12/5/2012 | 4:18:17 PM

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Interesting... but there is a difference between virtualizing and hosting Mediaroom.  The gains from Mediaroom with virtualization certainly favor a hosting opportunity... although not to the extent that ALU has taken Mediaroom virtualization with its micro-architecture (for which it also got an award).

Meanwhile, the challenge for MOT will be to architect a way to have a shared installation of Mediaroom so that customers maintain secure and segmented connections to their back end B/OSS.  To my knowledge, only 180Squared was working on this, and even had some initial traction with their Quantum Site Technology. Would be interesting if MOT was leveraging 180Squared capabilities (or their own back-office integration expertise).  And a potential coup vs. ALU's ongoing efforts to drive market traction below Tier 1.

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Pete Baldwin 12/5/2012 | 4:18:16 PM

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To follow up ycurrent's point .... yes, it might be true that a lot of Tier2/3s don't have this kind of fiber, but some of them are building it out (Greenlight).  And even if it's just a minority, there seem to be enough of them to justify starting a hosting center -- at least, Motorola thinks so.

Whether it becomes a huge business, who knows. That's probably one of the factors in their choice of hosting it themselves or working with a cloud hoster. 

(people say "hoster," don't they? i didn't just now make that up, right?)

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paolo.franzoi 12/5/2012 | 4:18:15 PM

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The Tier 2s might be short on FTTH, but not the Tier 3s.

The biggest issue for solving the headend costs for small folks who want to get into the business has been dealt with a long time ago.  There are several consortia that provide head ends for multiple IOCs.  There are also places like INS that provide video services.

The problem with the Microsoft/AT&T approach is quite different.  AT&T provides a Layer 3 home.  Most of the IOCs have used a Layer 2 home and use VLANs to separate out the video and data from each other.  This has the advantage of being able to wholesale out one part of that or the other (which is required if you are sourcing your video from one guy and data from another).  You could do this by building a home that used both Layer 2 and Layer 3 to separate video and data but that would seem to cost a lot of money.

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upand2theright 12/5/2012 | 4:18:15 PM

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MSFT Mediaroom doesn't work on broadband pipes smaller than 25 mbps.  It doesn't matter if the gear is on premises or in the cloud. The reality is MOT has proposed a solution for 5 percent of Tier 2 & Tier 3 carrier market with FTTH. Not exactly a world beater.

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mbhenderson 12/5/2012 | 4:18:14 PM

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MOTOROLA is using ETI's Triad to handle a hosted solution that allows a single Mediaroom instance to be shared between multiple systems while keeping all sensitive customer data private. ETI's solution also provides for STB registration, Caller ID, STB client version management and remote DVR in a hosted model.

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gtmiptv 12/5/2012 | 4:18:09 PM

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Well, partially true. There is no minimum connectivity requirement in Microsoft Mediaroom offering. 20-25 mpbs is an ideal situation but to my knowledge, Mediaroom is functioning in as low as 1.5 mbps loops.

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Garci 12/5/2012 | 4:18:03 PM

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Indeed, ICC is the big bandwidth eater, but if you're planning SD video and a single STB per house (not sure how realistic this is in today's US market) you could easily go down the 3 or 4 Mbps route, even with ICC (instant channel change). For HD, you're really looking at more like 8-10Mbps though.

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