CloudTV

ActiveVideo was the product of a 2006 merger between ICTV and Switch Media, a developer of technologies for the customization of video streams. The company was named ActiveVideo in 2008. ActiveVideo acquired the European company Avinity Systems, B.V., in 2009.

In 2011, ActiveVideo announced its first consumer electronics partner, Funai Electric, manufacturer of Philips NetTVs. ActiveVideo also has announced a partnership with Sumitomo Corporation, intended to drive distribution of CloudTV in Japan and the Asia-Pacific market. Sumitomo is a 50% owner of J:COM, the largest cable system operator in Japan.

ActiveVideo was acquired by ARRIS Group, Inc. and Charter Communications in 2015 and operates independently as a joint venture of the two parent companies.

There are several solutions and products out on the market so far, which use different methodologies for each of them. One of largest subscription that has made by the company Alticast, and ActiveVideo is following it as 2nd reported subscription and running CPEs today. Alticast uses the unique way of the implementation of UI virtualization as using a stream of special "codes" instead of the encoded video stream as other solutions from ActiveVideo or Entrix. Entrix and ActiveVideo have applied their solutions to actual market abroad so far.

ActiveVideo's core CloudTV platform includes two products, both of which bring next-generation user experiences to existing or new STBs or connected devices. These include ActiveVideo CloudTV GuideCast for navigation interfaces and ActiveVideo CloudTV StreamCast to support delivery of online video experiences CloudTV can run on “off-the-shelf blade servers” from vendors such as Dell, HP or Cisco, or on third-party cloud platforms, such as the Amazon Web Service (AWS). On high-density servers from Kontron and others that are based on Intel Quick Sync Video, virtual STB data center CapEx can be as low as $1 per subscriber.