Pace tops Motorola in Q2 set-top sales

Pace (LSE: PIC) edged out rival set-top vendor Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) in overall set-top revenue during the second quarter, according to Infonetics Research.

While Pace benefited from supplying set-tops to top cable operators, telephone companies and DBS providers, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) holds a commanding lead in both revenue and units sold for IP-based set-tops, the market research firm said. Set-top vendors generated $3.45 billion in sales during the quarter, down less than 1 percent, it added.

Infonetics said it expects set-top sales to peak in 2011, as pay TV providers upgrade to new boxes, and consumers buy over-the-top video boxes from companies such as Apple and Roku.

The market research firm released a separate report that found sales for video-on-demand and streaming video content servers increased by 4 percent during the second quarter. It attributed the growth to operators racing to expand VoD programming offerings in response to competition from over-the-top video providers.

For more:
- see news release on Q2 set-top sales
- see this news release on Q2 sales for VoD servers and video encoders

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