Huawei Convergence Video Solutions: Enabling Convergence and Growth in the Video Market

[Shenzhen, China April 11, 2017]Huawei shares its video strategy and global outlook for growth, as industry analysts converge in Shenzhen, China for the Huawei Analyst Summit 2017.

Video has evolved from a basic value-added service to a key core service for operators globally, as evidenced by $208 billion USD in revenue generated worldwide in 2016. In mature markets, including North America, Western Europe, Korea and Japan, operators are focused on ARPU growth and churn abatement. While in emerging markets, such as Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, subscriber growth is a key business imperative. However, commonly across all segments, all operators are focused on profitability and opportunities to exploit new revenue streams.

Beyond the current entertainment video market segment, Huawei foresees growth opportunities in adjacent vertical video markets, including Communication Video, Industry Video and UGC(User Generated Content). These vertical markets are expected to grow globally to $82 billion USD, $285 billion USD and $105 billion USD respectively, by 2020. Huawei is strategically positioned to enable operators to expand into these vertical video markets.

The Huawei Video PaaS strategy is a key enabler to help operators leverage their initial investments in entertainment video and cost-effectively expand to vertical video markets. The core micro-services leveraged to support entertainment services can also be reused for services across the vertical video market. These core micro-services include multi-tenant support, Just-in-Time-Encoding and Identity Management. The Video PaaS strategy also enables convergence of video services across fixed and mobile networks.

Huawei Convergence Video Solutions are already deployed in over 110 operators globally, serving over 73 million registered video subscribers. In 2016, the Huawei Convergence Video Platform, along with the Set-Top-Boxes (STB) are ranked #1 globally in market share by SNL Kagan for the Middleware, STB and VoD (Video on Demand) segments.