COTS Hardware and VOD Servers: Service Provider Preferences
The survey results presented in this report are based on interactions with 100 IPTV service providers worldwide. All the selected providers offer IPTV in one form or the other. iLocus carried out the survey to study the hardware platform preferences of service providers with regard to their VOD Servers. Click here to read the announcement.
Executive Summary
Backgrounder
Introduction and Participant Profile
1. COTS Hardware and VOD Servers: Existing Usage Patterns
2. Future Hardware Preference for VOD Servers
3. Type of COTS Currently Being Utilized by VOD Vendors
4. How Mixed is the Mixed Bag
5. Factors That Are Driving Migration Toward COTS Hardware
Figures
Figure A: Type of service providers in the survey sample
Figure B: Geographical breakdown of service providers in the survey sample
Figure 3: Breakdown of service provider survey sample by the VOD platform used
Figure 1.1: Hardware used by service providers for VOD solution
Figure 2.1: VOD hardware preference of service providers
Figure 3.1: Evaluation of ATCA and other COTS hardware by service providers
Figure 3.2: Expected migrations to COTS over the next two years
Figure 4.1: Other IPTV elements that currently reside on COTS hardware
Figure 5.1: Top 10 reasons for migrating to COTS hardware
