MIC forays into set-top box market

Venkat Pulapaka / Hyderabad

MIC Electronics, a ISO 9001-2000 company, has inked an agreement with UEC Multi Media of South Africa for the manufacture of set-top boxes. UEC will transfer technology and know-how to MIC for the manufacture of these boxes. It will also customise the middleware applications software and offer a range of development services in the application domain.

“This partnership will allow us to address the requirements of the Rs 20,000-crore market for set-top boxes and middleware for interactive TV in India. We plan to scale up production from 30,000 set-top boxes in the first month to a lakh in four months,” said Dr M V Ramana Rao, managing director and chief executive officer of MIC Electronics. “We hope to garner at least a 10 percent marketshare.”

The set-top box from the company has been extended from purely enabling entertainment, to offering electronic communication and commerce, thereby enhancing its utility in households. Product support through proper after-sales service, vital for the successful implementation of CAS, will be provided.

The company will also provide services in various system engineering aspects such as WAN and LAN system architecture, architecture design and support, system integration, broadcast network integration, broadcast head-end solutions and support.

MIC Electronics designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of products, including telecom access products like digital loop carrier on optical fibre SDH and xDSL, telecom software products like LNMS and energy management systems.