Media tech company LTN Global launched LTN Lift, cloud-based software that automatically creates live, linear channels to reach cross-platform audiences.

As traditional media platforms lose audiences, LTN Lift can help media companies maximize the yield from content assets.

The product combines LTN’s playout, signaling and video transport technologies and automates versioning of a primary linear channel, while spinning out secondary channels and integrating both live and non-live programming.

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“In a fiercely competitive and complex media landscape, maximizing the value and reach of your content has never been as important as it is today,“ LTN executive chairman and cofounder Malik Khan said. “Media customers need to get their best content to viewers wherever they are watching — and they need to do this efficiently and at scale. LTN Lift is a unique service that empowers our customers to lead in the digital era, and we’re already seeing early adopters among broadcast groups achieve outstanding results.”

LTN’s built-in signaling and ad enablement technologies provide customers with the foundation to achieve optimum monetization through advanced advertising on any platform.

The company will be showing off LTN Lift at the NAB Show in Las Vegas later this month. ■

Harmonic shares tumbled Friday (July 14) after the company announced it had cut financial guidance for Q2 2017 amid an ongoing transition by customers to software subscription models and cloud-based video infrastructure.

Harmonic said it expects Q2 sales of $80 million to $82 million, down from $95 million to $103 million, and a non-GAAP loss per share of 21 cents to 19 cents.

"Market demand for video infrastructure delivered through software subscription and cloud services is accelerating," Patrick Harshman, Harmonic’s president and CEO, said in a statement.

He said that while an improvement in OTT software-as-a-service activity reduced revenue and profitability in the period, Harmonic also believes this will help to “establish a trajectory for more predictable future financial performance in our Video segment.”

With more acceleration coming way of Harmonic’s software business, the company has also started reorg efforts that aim to align the company’s operating expenses with transitioning demand to its video OTT SaaS and CableOS products, Harshman added.

CableOS is Harmonic’s virtual Converged Cable Access Platform that will run on off-the-shelf hardware. Last fall, Harmonic announced a warrant agreement with Comcast based on sales to the MSO and deployment milestones involving the CableOS product.

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Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold maintained his Underperform rating on Harmonic shares following the announcement.

“Management attributed the miss to the continued transition towards software-based video encoding solutions, which could expand margin and profitability longer term, but will likely continue to impact the top line in the immediate term,” Leopold explained in a research note.

Harmonic is scheduled to release Q2 results following market close on Monday, July 31.

Petrichor Networks, a startup that is focused on helping cable operators unify their video networks and gracefully migrate to an all-IP platform, said it has hired industry vet S.V. Vasudevan as head of product.

Vasudevan, who has held exec slots at companies such as TiVo, Cisco Systems and switched digital video pioneer BigBand Networks (acquired by Arris in 2011), will be taking over Petrichor’s product functions as the company continues lab trials, pivots into initial field trials and prepares to launches its product/platform commercially later this year, and ramp up in 2018.

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Vasudevan, who started at Petrichor on June 1, noted that the plan is “reimagine” video solutions using a cloud-based software system that aims to reduce costs and network densities by 50%, and reduce power requirements by about two-thirds, while also helping MSOs open the door to a new class of applications and revenue opportunities.

Petrichor aims to unify the operations of what have become dual video networks for operators -- one leaning on legacy QAM technology, and a newer one that runs over IP.

The premise of the company’s approach is to “provide a graceful runway to get from the traditional legacy QAM architecture to an all-IP architecture,” added John Boland, a former Arris exec who was named CEO of Petrichor earlier this year.  

While going all-IP and managing the quality of experience/service that underpins that move is the longer term end-game, Boland said that Petrichor has some more near-term opportunities to displace current on-demand hardware and reduce an operator’s operational expenses.

Boland, who has been focusing on Petrichor’s business development, noted that the company is in lab trials with two operators since Q3 2016, and expects to next enter a field trial with a yet-unnamed U.S. operator.

Regarding financing, he said Petrichor is about three-quarters of the way through a seed round, and that he’d like to see the company move through the field trials and enter commercial deployment before the company aggressively pursues an A-series round of funding.

“We've got plenty of runway right now,” he said.

Petrichor currently has 11 employees, but is in hiring mode.

Others industry vets tied to the startup include John Carlucci, president and chief strategist, who previously was president and CTO of Alticast U.S and a former exec with Clearleap (now part of IBM), and Time Warner Cable; Bill Helms, chief technologist, who previously was vice president of subscriber networks at Time Warner Cable; and Mike Hayashi, chairman, the former long-time engineering exec at TWC.

Cable operators aren’t the only pay TV providers that are grappling with how to pivot to next-gen platforms without the expense of abandoning a large base of legacy set-tops.

Telcos and other IPTV service providers that got into the pay TV game several years ago are facing similar challenges as they look to remain competitive in a world of over-the-top SVOD services, an array of virtual MVPDs, as well as cable operators, such as Comcast, that are rapidly deploying cloud-powered, IP-capable video platforms.

Amino Communications is trying to help its IPTV partners bridge that gap with Enable, software that virtualizes many of the functions of the set-top in the cloud and provides a way for those service providers to deliver fresh interfaces and new services to both old and new devices and, later, to some third-party OTT platforms such as Android TV.

The big challenge for IPTV providers that have invested in infrastructure, middleware and boxes is how to upgrade their platform without having to refresh all of the consumer-side devices, Jamie Mackinlay, an exec who heads up strategic marketing at Amino, said.

This has become a “universal problem” for many IPTV providers that made technology decisions five to ten years ago, and now want to shift gears to a new experience that delivers more intuitive navigation as well as recommendation systems, added Mark Evensen, Amino’s CTO.

Amino said Enable, a technology that it obtained from its 2015 acquisition of Entone, allows IPTV providers to take advantage of new interfaces, including voice-navigation capabilities, that are more media rich and visual, putting those providers on par with the kind of UIs that grace services like Netflix and platforms like Apple TV, Fire TV and Android TV.

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To support that in older IPTV set-tops, many of those functions are offloaded to the network, while the device handles the rendering and user interaction, explained Evensen.

He said the hurdle that this overcomes is not just the cost of the equipment but the disruption that occurs when a service provider has to roll a truck and switch out a device. That latter part would be removed from the equation.

This idea probably sounds familiar. Amino’s approach with Enable shares some traits with the cloud TV of ActiveVideo, now a joint venture of Arris and Charter Communications. Charter is using ActiveVideo’s platform to help it bring its new Spectrum Guide to its base of legacy boxes as well as its new IP-capable devices.

RELATED: Arris, Charter Close $135M ActiveVideo Acquisition

Several Amino IPTV partners are already using Enable, including Cincinnati Bell and Hong Kong-based PCCW.

In the case of Cincinnati Bell, its legacy IPTV platform relied on boxes from ZTE and multiple software stacks. With Enable, Everson said, the telco was able to convert those older boxes to one based on Minerva’s platform while also supporting it on new Amino devices on a going-forward basis. By unifying that experience, Cincinnati Bell can roll new features to all its customers and not have to confine marketing programs to the legacy and next-gen customer base.

PCCW, meanwhile, had its own middleware but the underlying stack used a trio of vendors with nuances in the implementations. Enable’s virtual STB software is helping PCCW to homogenize its user experience, Everson said.

Amino is also developing new features for Enable that will allow IPTV providers to bring their service and experience to certain third-party streaming platforms. More detail will be announced later this year, but Amino views Android TV as key candidate because it is open. Amino believes Enable can be adapted to Android TV and provide a path to network-specific hardware that IPTV partners can use.

Claiming to bring vision to the video cloud’s “blind spot,” a vet from the premium OTT world is heading up Wicket Labs, a Seattle-based startup that will help its partners keep close tabs on what, it says, are “mission-critical” APIs.

Without proper monitoring, frequent changes in those third-party APIs can cause outages and other impairments for premium video applications, including TV Everywhere offerings and various direct-to-consumer apps and services, explained Wicket Labs CEO and co-founder Marty Roberts, who most recently was co-CEO of thePlatform, the online video publishing company that Comcast acquired in 2006, and is also late of RealNetworks.

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To address that issue, the startup has introduced the Wicket Scorecard, a service that keeps a close eye on ever-shifting third-party APIs that can impair an OTT service’s operations. He said API tracking can give partners a new level of visibility and enable them to more rapidly pinpoint API-related issues as they emerge.

Roberts said he and his team started to validate the idea by talking to several customers of thePlatform, noting that many have become increasingly reliant on cloud-based APIs but don’t’ have the personnel set up or their own monitoring systems to keep tabs on them, thus putting a heavier reliance on their vendors to handle many of those quality assurance aspects of their online video business.

Wicket Labs, he said, has built a core system that can call into these APIs and authenticate against them, or even validate them against a test environment prior to deployment.

The Wicket Scorecard uses a web and mobile user interface (UI) and alerts partners to the status of their Wickets based on three general categories: Good Wickets (shows a vendor’s API history and performance over time, including the number of times the API has entered a problem state); Notable Wickets (explain changes to an API that is not expected to cause an immediate or meaningful impact to the user experience); and Problem Wickets (details the issue and changes impacting the consumer experience and are presented for a timely escalation to the vendor) Problems in that latter category typically include outages, 500 or 503 errors, and “brown outs,” which can be attributed, for example, to an intermittent data error or a slow response time.  

Wicket Labs has not announced any individual partners, but Roberts said trials are underway and that the company’s initial group of targets includes premium video programmers, including broadcasters, cable operators or pure OTT providers.

“All of these companies have become increasingly dependent on cloud-based APIs, he said.

Starting today, Wicket Labs is offering free “friendly” summary account for up to three wickets before moving to a “Club” tier for five Wickets that costs $500 per month. A higher-end “League” tier is more variable in terms of the number of monitored Wickets are made available to the client.

Wicket Labs is currently privately funded, but could look to raise a formal “A” investment round next spring, Roberts said.

Other co-founders include VP of products Eric Knutson, formerly of RealNetworks and Rhapsody; and VP of software development Larry Hitchon, an exec who is late of Amazon, Front Desk, AppFog, and The Top Agent Network.

TV Everywhere, cloud video and and portal services specialist Synacor has tapped industry vet Timothy Schermerhorn as SVP, service provider sales and marketing.

In that role,  Schermerhorn will head up all aspects of Synacor’s revenue-facing efforts in the service provider market.

Schermerhorn most recently was VP and GM broadband and media accounts at Ericsson. He’s also late of Intel Corp., ADB and Motorola. He reports to Synacor CEO Himesh Bhise.

 “Tim is highly regarded throughout the industry as being a strong customer advocate and A dynamic sales leader,” Bhise said in a statement. “His depth of experience and sales leadership will be a tremendous asset to Synacor’s success as we continue our path to 3/30/300.” 

Synacor’s “3/30/300” initiative, announced in May, outlined a goal of generating $300 million in revenues and $30 million in EBIDTA in three years.

Cloud video infrastructure startup Bitmovin said it has landed a $10.3 million series A round led by Atomico.

Bitmovin said the funds will help it accelerate development of video playback technologies for existing and new platforms, including 360-degree video for virtual reality services and apps.

Also joining the A round are a group of Bitmovin angel backers -- David Helgason, founder of Unity; Chris Kaiser, former VP of Engineering at Netflix and YouTube, and Edward Kozel, a former CTO of Cisco Systems and Deutsche Telekom.

Bitmovin, which provides cloud-powered video encoding services and an HTML5 player for desktop, mobile, smart TV and VR platforms, counts OTT customers around the world such as Toolbox, Bouygues Telecom, Nomads, Flimmit, Technicolor, Genflix, Kronehit (online radio).  

Its tech partners include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft, Irdeto, Wowza Media Systems and ad-tech specialist YuMe.

Its intro-level monthly pricing for cloud encoding ranges from free (capped at 2.5 gigabytes per month with “limited” support, to $29 per month for a “Startup” tier, $59 for its “Business” tier, and $149 for a “Professional” level offering.

Bitmovin also offers a range of “Enterprise” plans that start at $645 per month. The company also has monthly and enterprise plans for its adaptive player based on the number of video views.

Bitmovin, based in Palo Alto, Calif., and Klagenfurt, Austria, is also backed by Dawn Capital, SpeedInvest, and Constantia New Business. It was founded in 2013. 

Zype, a cloud-powered OTT distribution service, said it has closed a $3.6 million round of seed funding led by Revel Partners.

Zype noted that $2 million has been added to an initial raise of $1.6 million announced last October. Other investors include Point Nine Capital, Alpine Meridian Ventures, Berlin Ventures, Entrepreneurs Investment Fund, and Terrapin Bale Ventures.

Zype, founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, said revenues in 2015 rose 229% paired with a 327% surge in new customer acquisitions.

The startup said more than 100 OTT apps from customers are now present in the market, and claims to be managing more than 821,000 unique video titles for its partners. Zype’s announced customers feature mix of content creators and SVOD services, including NBTV Studios, Mill Creek  Entertainment, The Rebel Media, The Film Detective, The Grind House, Chukker.tv, Brooklyn On Demand, Shout! Factory, and the All Babies Channel.

Zype’s platform, which handles elements such as publishing, streaming alongside data analytics,  supports a wide range of platforms, including Apple TV, iOS and Android, the Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Web browsers, and smart TVs.

Zype also announced that AJ Vernet, late of DoubleClick, Sizmek, and Digital Broadcasting Group, has been hired as chief revenue officer.

Industry vet Yvette Kanouff is leading an expanded service provider organization at Cisco Systems as part of a broader reorganization announced internally by the company.

In her new role, Kanouff will head up a new organization that combines Cisco’s SP segment, SP cloud, mobility and Service Provider Video Software and Solutions (SPVSS), according to an email posted by Business Insiderfrom company CEO Chuck Robbins, who took the reigns of the company last July. Multichannel News has verified the contents of the email.

Kanouff, an exec late of SeaChange International and Time Warner Cable,  joined Cisco in June 2014 to head up its SPVSS unit, and was recently promoted to also head up Cisco’s recently combined cloud groups.

As part of the reorg, Kelly Ahuja will no longer head up Cisco’s service provider business.

Update:  Cisco confirmed that Ahuja is leaving Cisco. "We would like to thank Kelly for his leadership over the SP segment that led to significant acceleration for our SP strategy and portfolio. We wish Kelly the best in his future endeavors," the company said, in a statement. 

“I’d like to express my deep gratitude to Kelly Ahuja for his 18 years of leadership in Service Provider,” Robbins said in the email, whose contents were confirmed by Multichannel News. “Our customers have deep respect for Kelly’s expertise, and he has been critical to our success. I know you’ll join me in wishing him the best as he takes the next steps in his career journey.”

Robbins also announced that Cisco is reorganizing the engineering division to “better reflect our strategic priorities,” aligning it in four key areas: Networking and Market Segments; Cloud Services and Platforms; IoT; and Applications, and Security.

Under the new structure, David Goeckeler will continue to head up the company’s Security business, while Rowan Trollope will stay at the head of IoT & Applications. Zorawar Biri Singh, named SVP and CTO last year, is now heading up heading up Cisco’s newCloud Services & Platforms unit and will retain his role as CTO and lead efforts around the company’s next-gen data center strategy. 

YipTV said has hooked into with Akamai’s cloud-based platform to deliver an OTT service that features more than 100 "channels," including 18 live TV streams.

Launched in May 2015, YipTV’s no-contract, $14.99 per month service focused on Spanish-language video services is offered on several platforms, including iOS and Android mobile devices, select smart TVs, Web browsers, Apple TV boxes and via the Google Chromecast streaming adapter.

YipTV CIO Giancarlo Paolillo said Akamai’s platform has enabled the OTT service to reduce lag time by acquiring digital signals of the live TV channels it offers close to their origination points while also tapping into analytics that help YipTV monitor audience behaviors and keep video quality in check.

“Subscribers today expect a flawless viewing experience and instant access to high-definition video content on any screen,” said John Bishop, CTO, media, at Akamai, in a statement.  “Delivering OTT video and other content must be seamless, fast and scalable.  Our Media Delivery Solutions are designed to help services like YipTV engage their subscribers by delivering content at the highest possible quality wherever and whenever users want and, further, to scale with the growth and complexity of different types of connected devices.”

IBM expanded its cloud video play again via the M&A path, this time snapping up Ustream, a provider of cloud-driven live video streaming services that counts HBO, the National Football League and Discovery Channel, NASA, and Facebook among its clients.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but the purchase comes on the heels of IBM’s acquisition of Clearleap, a multiscreen video platform specialist based in Duluth, Ga.

San Francisco-based Ustream handles on-demand and live streams to about 80 million viewers per month, IBM said, noting that the portfolio includes Ustream Demand, Ustream Align (for secure internal employee communications), and Ustream Pro Broadcasting, its scaled live video streaming system.

Ustream will become part of its newly-formed IBM Cloud Video Services unit that combines Big  Blue’s R&D labs and its strategic acquisitions and investments, including Aspera and Cleversafe.  That unit is led by general manager Braxton Jarratt, the former CEO of Clearleap.

“Aligning our expansive video and cloud innovations into an integrated unit will create opportunities for clients to take advantage of this medium in the most strategic way possible,” Robert LeBlanc, SVP of IBM Cloud, said in a statement.

“Through this latest acquisition and the creation of a new cloud business unit, IBM will provide an end-to-end suite of digital video solutions for the first time under one roof,” added Jarratt.

IBM said 2015 revenues for its cloud business rose 57%, to $10.2 billion.

IBM’s Ustream deal again shines the spotlight on the M&A action swirling around video streaming, and follows other recent mergers, including Amazon Web Service’s buy of Elemental Technologies, Turner Broadcasting System’s takeover of iStreamPlanet.

Noting that the lines between traditional pay TV services and over-the-top video are continuing to blur, Cisco Systems announced Wednesday that it is acquiring 1 Mainstream, a startup that specializes in cloud-delivered on-demand and live multiscreen services.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but Cisco said the acquisition will help its customers tap into cloud-based systems to accelerate the evolution of their own video offerings. Cisco added that 1 Mainstream’s technology complements its “Infinite” cloud video suite/platform.

Cisco expects to close the deal in Q2 of its current fiscal year, noting that 1 Mainstream will join Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software and Solutions Cloud Engineering Group, now led by Conrad Clemson, the unit’s senior vice president and general manager.

“OTT is fast becoming the new normal, where open, cloud-based technologies allow innovation at a rate simply not possible with traditional TV technologies,” Rob Salvagno, vice president of coporate business development at Cisco, said in a blog post about the deal.

Cupertino, Calif.-based 1 Mainstream was founded in 2012 by several former execs from  Roku, Apple and TiVo, with the goal of providing a platform that enables partners to rapidly spool up video services for a wide range of supported streaming platforms, including smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, connected TVs and media players such as the Apple TV and Android TV-powered Nexus Player.

1 Mainstream’s financial backers include DCM, Menlo Ventures, BSkyB and Luminari Capital. In March, Sky invested an additional $5 million in 1 Mainstream, following a $2 million investment made in 2013.  Known 1 Mainstream customers include Sky News, Tastemade, Young Hollywood, Foxtel Play, NowTV (Sky), ACC Digital Network, Screambox, Acacia TV, and Universal Sports Network (which is shutting down).

“1 Mainstream’s rapid growth shows the huge opportunity for technology that helps premium content owners reach audiences across multiple platforms and devices, quickly and efficiently,” Alun Webber, managing director, product design and development at Sky, said in a statement. “As a major customer, we are pleased to have been so closely involved in their development and we look forward to continue working with them as they become part of our long-standing partner Cisco’s Service Provider Video Team."

Cox Communications confirmed that it has quietly begun to expand its trial of an X1-powered video offering in the San Diego area, allowing subscribers there to get service via a cloud-based approach that operates on Comcast’s next-gen, multiscreen video platform for set-tops and mobile devices.

Cox has been testing X1 as it pursues a “future-state” video project, and had been testing it in the lab before expanding it to Cox employees in a small number of markets, including Macon, Ga.

Cox spokesman Todd Smith said via email that Cox is taking a “reactive only” approach to the expanded X1 trial in San Diego. There, he said, customers who call in about Contour, Cox’s current-generation video platform for set-tops and tablets, are also being offered to opportunity to get the X1-based service, which Cox is currently referring to as Contour 2.

“We’re not marketing individual features heavily, but focused on testing standard Contour functionality on the X1 platform in a live customer environment,” he said, noting that Cox’s future plans involving X1 are still to be determined though its trial continues to show encouraging results.

Cox EVP Mark Greatrex told CableFAX in its September 15 issue about the San Diego trial and the MSO’s use of the Contour 2 label.

Cox was the first operator outside of Comcast to confirm that was evaluating X1, which Comcast now offers across its national cable footprint and is shipping about 30,000 X1 boxes per day.  

But Cox isn’t alone.  Shaw Communications of Canada announced in June that it was shutting down its original plan to develop an IPTV service to instead try out X1.

Those trials also add momentum to the Reference Design Kit (RDK),  a preintegrated software stack for IP and IP/QAM hybrid devices that’s being managed by Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Liberty Global. Comcast's X1 platform uses the RDK. 

Cox developed its original Contour platform, which features a six-tuner whole-home DVR and a personalized video recommendation platform from ThinkAnalytics (up to eight individual profiles), in tandem with NDS, which is now part of Cisco Systems.

Vubiquity said it is revealing and demonstrating new products and services at this week’s INTX show in in Chicago focused on areas such as live streaming, digital distribution and electronic sell-through.

On the linear side, its LiveVU service is powered by powered by Vubiquity’s AnyVU Cloud platform, enabling service providers to quickly launch a live linear streaming service that includes content acquisition, content encoding and packaging, CDN delivery and a digital storefront.

Also on show is the company’s Bandwidth Optimization platform that uses reduced bitrate encoding to compress data and make more storage available, thereby enabling service providers to expand their offerings. The company said its Bandwidth Optimization platform facilitates 38% more storage and allows service providers to deliver 62% more on demand assets to their customers, leading to increased revenues. Bandwidth Optimization transcodes high-quality source files into lower bitrate profiles encoded at a rate of 9.25Mbps, while maintaining high-quality standards of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Visual Quality Metrics (VQM), and Structural Similarity (SSIM).

With respect to digital distribution, Vubiquity said its existing service provider portfolio consists of 550 distributors across 37 countries in 15 languages, noting that, beginning in the third quarter of 2015, the company will boost this portfolio and distribute content to additional service providers including OTT distributors.

Vubiquity is also showing an EST solution for that works with existing VOD set-ups and includes pre-licensed movies and TV shows for in- and out-of-home viewing on mainstream devices, set-top-box integrations, white-labeled storefronts, and device apps iOS  and Android devices, as well as PCs and Macs.

“At this year’s INTX, we wanted to really highlight all of the content capabilities we have been developing over the past year,” Darcy Antonellis, CEO of Vubiquity said, in a statement . “With new technologies and disruption comes many new challenges, and we have been diligently working to best support our partners and customers with new solutions.”

Arris and Charter Communications said Friday that they have wrapped up their combined $135 million acquisition of cloud video specialist ActiveVideo Networks under a joint venture.  

Arris owns 65% of the J.V. ActiveVideo will operate independently of Arris and Charter, with Arris serving as the sales channel for ActiveVideo's CloudTV platform outside of sales to Charter, which is using the technology to underpin its new cloud-based Spectrum Guide for set-tops that use IP as well as MPEG-based transport. 

Update:  Charter has been testing Spectrum Guide in Fort Worth, Texas. The MSO expects to introduce it in other markets, including Reno, Nev.; and St. Louis, “in the coming months,” Tom Rutledge, Charter’s president and CEO, said Friday (May 1) on the company’s  first quarter earnings call. “Results in the test market have been positive,” Rutledge said, noting that Charter is also working to boost the number of on-demand titles it offers on set-tops and the Charter TV app by a factor of three.

Rutledge also noted that devices outfitted with the cloud-based Spectrum Guide will also be paired with a “small resident guide” to ensure that customers can still access a user interface “if the boxes ever lose connectivity to the server.” He also said Charter is also expecting to will expand into several markets the rollout of its hybrid QAM/IP “Worldbox” (Humax and Cisco Systems are the initial suppliers of it) that supports Charter’s new downloadable security platform.

Jeff Miller will continue to lead ActiveVideo as CEO. The ActiveVideo board is comprised of both Arris and Charter execs. The deal was announced on April 14.

In addition to Charter, ActiveVideo customers include Cablevision Systems, Liberty Global, Deutsche Telekom, Time Warner Cable, J:COM, Philips, and Roku, among others.

“We expect to be able to scale [ActiveVideo’s] business and take the technology and deploy it more ubiquitously around the world,” Bruce McClelland, president of Arris’s network and cloud and global services division, said in a recent interview about the deal.

A Q&A with Gary Lauder, the managing director of Lauder Partners and former chairman of ActiveVideo, will be featured in the May 4 issue of Multichannel News.