Motorola Buying Maker of IP Boxes in Sweden By Karen Brown MultiChannel News
1/23/2006 http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6301185.html Motorola Inc., which six years ago acquired cable set-top box maker General Instrument Corp., last week said it would acquire a Swedish company that makes digital set-top boxes for television delivered via Internet protocol. Motorola said it would acquire Kreatel Communications AB, which makes digital set-top boxes for such European telephone companies as Spain's Telefonica S.A., Sweden's TeliaSonera and Holland's KPN. All three provide customers with so-called IPTV services. This acquisition will give Motorola an IPTV set-top box that runs on the Linux operating system. That gives it an alternative to Internet-protocol boxes that run on Microsoft Corp. operating systems. Motorola's existing Linux-based set-top does not work on Internet protocols; it is part of its cable-TV equipment line. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kreatel, based in Linkoping, Sweden, is six years old, employs 60 people and recorded sales of $17.8 million in 2004. Its set-top boxes and software can be used in copper or fiber telephone networks to deliver video programming. Machine Spec Kreatel 1760 IPTV set-top box Microprocessor: 420 DMIPS Main memory: 128 MB DRAM Flash memory: 512 Kb Hard-disk drive: 80 Gb Operating system: Linux Video encoders: MPEG-2, H. 264, WM9 Graphics: 24 bits/pixel RGB for video Ports: Ethernet, USB 2.0. composite video ================================================= George Antunes Voice (713) 743-3923 Associate Professor Fax (713) 743-3927 Political Science Internet: antunes at uh dot edu University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3011 Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
