SoftAtHome

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SoftAtHome is a 300-employee software product company based in Colombes specializing in home connectivity (Access, Wi-Fi, Security), Home Applications (Video, IoT) and Data (Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence). The company's main shareholder is the European Telecom Operator Orange, others are Etisalat, the UAE incumbent that took a 16.5% share in 2009. [1] [2] In October 2015, Swiss incumbent Swisscom also became a shareholder joining the "Club of Operators".

The company's core products are Connect'ON on connectivity, Wifi'ON for smart wifi, Secure'ON for digital home security, Watch'ON for video services, Things'ON for IoT services, Eyes'ON for monitoring, and Orchestr'ON to organised home gateway App stores. [3]

During International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2014 the company claimed to have surpassed 17 million devices across 14 countries.[ citation needed ] SoftAtHome delivers only the software component, so has partnerships with hardware manufacturers like for example with Broadpeak [4] or AirTies to deliver Over-the-top content services. [5] Other key customers include Etisalat and O2 or Telenor.

History

SoftAtHome is a company created by Orange S.A., Thomson and Sagem in 2008. [6] The Telecom operator had launched TV services in 2003 and was struggling with its supplier ecosystem for triple play. Vendor lock-in was a key issue so the idea was to create a lightweight middleware layer that could host user interfaces and applications on top of it and different hardware platforms below. SoftAtHome was the result. In 2009 UAE incumbent Etisalat became a shareholder and client. SoftAtHome joined the prpl Foundation in 2016. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Etisalat acquires a 16.6% stake in SoftAtHome to shape the future of the Digital Home |". Ameinfo.com. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
  2. ↑ "Etisalat acquires a 16.6% stake in SoftAtHome to shape the future of the Digital Home". Zawya. 2009-10-18. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
  3. ↑ "Products". SoftAtHome.
  4. ↑ "Broadpeak teams with SoftAtHome for OTT over CDNs". Digital TV Europe. 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
  5. ↑ "Airties, SoftAtHome launch first OTT solution for telecom operators". Totaltele.com. 2010-03-22. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
  6. ↑ "Sagem Communications". Sagemcom.com. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
  7. ↑ "PRPL Foundation and SoftAtHome demonstrate CPE service platform with open-source software". 20 October 2022.


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