Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications have formed a joint venture to develop standards for the interconnection of equipment in the digital home.
Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications are joining forces to create Soft At Home. The joint-venture will promote a software platform able to interconnect any home device. Orange brings its experience in residential broadband, serving over 6 million Liveboxes and over 1 million subscribers for its IPTV package, Thomson its experience in designing and manufacturing decoders (cable, satellite, IP) and residential gateways (DSL and cable) while Sagem Communications claims to be the world number one for IP set-top boxes.
Soft At Home’s software solutions are being offered to players in theses sectors, such as telecommunications operators, third-party developers, OEMs and manufacturers. The partners quote a Strategy Analytics study that forecasts that more than 600 million terminals that can be connected up to these domestic networks will be sold in 2012, giving average growth of 30% a year in relation to 2007.
