SoftAtHome is a 300-employee software product company based in

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specializing in home connectivity (Access, Wi-Fi, Security), Home Applications (Video, IoT) and Data (Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence). The company's main shareholder is the European Telecom Operator

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, others are

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, the UAE incumbent that took a 16.5% share in 2009
In October 2015
Swiss incumbent

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also became a shareholder joining the "Club of Operators". The company's core products are Connect'ON on connectivity, Wifi'ON for smart wifi, Secure'ON for digital home security, Watch'ON for video services, Things'ON for IoT services and Eyes'ON for monitoring. During

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(IBC) the company claimed to have surpassed 17 million devices across 14 countries. SoftAtHome delivers only the software component so has partnerships with hardware manufacturers like for example with Broadpeak or AirTies to deliver

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services. Other key customers include

and O2 or

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History

SoftAtHome is a company created by

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, Thomson and Sagem in 2008. The Telecom operator had launched TV services in 2003 and was struggling with its supplier ecosystem for triple play.

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was a key issue so the idea was to create a lightweight

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layer that could host user interfaces and applications on top of it and different hardware platforms below. SoftAtHome was the result. In 2009 UAE incumbent Etisalat became a shareholder and client.

References

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