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ARRIS, Charter acquire
ActiveVideo
P, video and broadband
technology specialist
ARRIS and US
broadband communications
MSO Charter
Communications have
established a joint venture to
acquire cloud-based software
platform expert ActiveVideo
for approximately $135
million.
ARRIS will own 65% of the
joint venture company and will be
the sales channel for
ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform.
Closing of the transaction is
expected to occur in the second
quarter.
ActiveVideo is the developer
of CloudTV, which it claims is
the only cloud-based software
platform enabling service
providers, content
aggregators, and consumer
electronic (CE)
manufacturers rapidly to
deploy new services by
virtualising consumer
premises equipment (CPE)
functions in the cloud.
CloudTV enables the
delivery of next-gen user
interfaces, online content, and
interactive advertising for TV to
I
millions of set-tops and
connected devices. ActiveVideo’s
CloudTV platform and proven
intellectual property (39 issued
patents and 64 pending) will
complement ARRIS’s cloud
portfolio. ARRIS’s service
provider relationships, global
reach and installed base of CPE
are expected to accelerate
adoption of ActiveVideo’s
technology.
ActiveVideo’s platform
powers Charter’s new fully
featured, cloud-based Spectrum
Guide. Charter expects to launch
Spectrum Guide on Worldbox, as
well as on legacy boxes currently
deployed within the Charter
footprint. ActiveVideo’s global
base of customers includes:
Cablevision, Liberty Global,
Deutsche Telekom, Time Warner
Cable, J:COM, Philips, and Roku.
“This joint venture signifies
ARRIS’s continued investment in
advanced software solutions that
will create value across the entire
video
ecosystem,”
said Bob
Stanzione,
ARRIS
Chairman and
CEO (right).
“We look
forward to the
untold
opportunities
our extended
partnership
with Charter
will spawn as
we march
together into the future. ARRIS
and Charter are paving the way
for an all IP network migration
and enabling the softwaredefined TV experience that will
deliver the unified, next-gen
content experiences that today’s
consumers demand.”
“ActiveVideo’s CloudTV
platform is one of the enabling
technologies behind Spectrum
Guide. We have worked very
closely with ActiveVideo on the
development of this technology,
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