UTStarcom announced that Multimedia Research Group (MRG) has ranked the company as the op IPTV vendor in the Asian region with the company emergingat the top in categories of Access, Video-on-Demand (VOD), Set-top-Boxes, Middleware and Content Protection categories.

“UTStarcom’s Asia deployments have moved it into the first place ranking in five key areas of our Market Leaders Report,” said Jose Alvear, IPTV Analyst at MRG. “This kind of regional category takeover is unprecedented, and illustrates how IPTV providers are successfully applying their market-specific technology innovation and experience.”

UTStarcom attributed the success to strong performance in the Indian and Chinese markets.