Thomson - Partner to the Media & Entertainment Industries

Thomson provides technology, systems and services to help its Media & Entertainment clients – content creators, content distributors and users of its technology – realize their business goals and optimize their performance in a rapidly changing technology environment. The Group intends to become the preferred partner to the Media & Entertainment Industries through its Technicolor, Grass Valley, RCA and THOMSON brands.

Thomson’s Access Platforms and Gateways (AP&G) activity, part of the company’s Systems and Equipment division, is a leading supplier of digital entertainment receivers to the world’s major satellite and terrestrial broadcasters. It is also a major innovator in the provision of digital set-top boxes and high speed modems to cable operators. In addition, it is one of the leading suppliers of high-speed modems and gateways, Internet Protocol (IP) set top boxes, IP system integration services and telephones to telecom operators and ISPs around the globe.

Also part of Thomson’s Access Platforms & Gateways Business Unit are subsidiaries Inventel and Cirpack. Complementing Thomson’s offering in IP telephony and triple play services (voice, video and data), Inventel is a European leader in home gateways for fixed broadband network operators and in wireless voice and data communications (DECT, WiFi, Bluetooth), and Cirpack is the European leading provider of softswitch platforms.

Products are marketed under the THOMSON, RCA, Cirpack and SpeedTouch brands.