Motorola Acquires HDTV, IPTV Software Supplier

The move follows Motorola's midsummer acquisition of Broadbus Technologies Inc., and indicates the degree Motorola intends to augment the customer-premises TV business of the former General Instrument Inc.

Vertasent (Colmar, Pa.) uses open programming standards at the core of its Integrated Resource Management suite, which allows control of live, video-on-demand and IPTV networks through common hardware. The software allows video programming to be streamed to various client devices in a networked home.

While no terms were disclosed, one IPTV developer familiar with the deal characterized it as "unlikely to be more than ten million dollars, likely a few million." The Vertasent team will continue to operate out of Colmar, as part of Motorola's Connected Home Solutions business unit.

Motorola last week acquired Symbol Technologies Inc. for $3.9 billion.