Innovative Systems started offering proprietary Set-Top Boxes (STBs) back in 2017 as a way to provide MG-TV customers a device tightly integrated with the middleware. Little did we know that the effort would be successful to the point of surpassing over 175,000 units sold.

One of the early advances over many of the other vendor STBs started with the first generation IS-5112W that offered WiFi connectivity. Subsequent generations, the IS-5041W, and the IS-5045W6 have added more features, a smaller footprint, and faster processing.

“WTC has been purchasing STBs from Innovative for quite some time. We continue to do so because they are at a good price point, have been easy to deploy for our techs, and reliable for our customers.”

Kevin Christy, Video Manager, WTC Canada

Ordering from 12 units to full pallets of 1188, 168 Innovative Systems MG-TV customers have purchased their share of the 175,000 STBs. Scott Sobolewski Vice President of Sales says he wasn’t sure at first if entering the STB business would be a good fit, but the timing ended up being right-on.  Scott says as the first generation IS-5112Ws started to be deployed, seeing how satisfied the video operators were made it apparent that this was a viable business for the long term.  Today’s third-generation IS-5045W6 is proving to be well-received as both a replacement for legacy boxes and new deployments for streaming while providing a traditional STB experience for consumers.