Cisco’s service provider video segment had revenues of $1.92 billion for the 2016 fiscal year, an increase of 12% over the 2015 fiscal year.
For the 12 months ending 30 July, 2016, service provider video as a percentage of Cisco’s total product sales (not including services revenue) represented 5.2% in FY2016 and 4.7% in FY2015.
With Cisco’s divestiture of its CPE business to Technicolor, the SPV segment now includes cable access cloud-based video solutions, content security, content management and distribution products, digital headend, and virtualised video processing systems.
Many of these product categories were acquired in a series of M&A transactions in the media technology sector including 1 Mainstream (2015), NDS (2012), BNI Video (2011), Inlet (2011), Extend Media (2010) and Scientific Atlanta (2005).
For the fiscal fourth quarter, Cisco’s SP video segment had revenue of $444 million, a decline of 12% versus the fourth quarter of 2015. It accounted for 4.6% of Cisco’s product revenue in the fourth quarter, a decline versus the contribution of 5.3% in the fourth quarter 2015.