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Pace plc develops set-top boxes (STBs), advanced residential gateways, software and services for the pay-TV and broadband services industry. Pace's customers include cable, telco, satellite and IPTV operators. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. On 22 April 2015, the Boards of Pace and ARRIS Group announced that they had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended combination of Pace with ARRIS in a stock and cash deal that valued Pace at £1.4 billion. The combination is conditional on, amongst other things, shareholder approval from both Pace and ARRIS shareholders and also the receipt of merger control clearances in a number of jurisdictions including Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Portugal, South Africa and the United States. The resultant combined group will be headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operationally managed from the United States. The combination will result in Pace shareholders owning 24% of the combined company, and Arris shareholders 76%. ==History== The company was founded as ''Pace Micro Technology plc'' in 1982 by Yorkshire born businessmen Barry Rubery and David Hood and introduced the first low-cost commercially available modems in 1985.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Corporate History )〕 In 1987 it started selling its first analogue satellite set-top receivers.〔 In 1995 it manufactured the world's first DVB decoders for Australian satellite company Galaxy.〔 Pace was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1996.〔 In 1998 the company started shipping digital satellite television equipment for BSkyB.〔 In 1999, Pace purchased the set-top box division of Acorn Computers and converted it into its Cambridge office.〔 In the following years Pace owned the GUI RISC OS, and used technologies based on it in its decoder equipment. The Cambridge office was closed in 2003.〔(Redundancies at Cambridge Pace office ) 27 March 2003〕 Pace started delivering products to Comcast in the United States in 2000; the company also delivers to AT&T and DirecTV.〔(Pace to Supply Digital Set Top Boxes to Comcast Cable ) Business Wire, 26 June 2000〕 In 2001 Pace announced that it was outsourcing the last of the manufacturing capacity which remained at its location in Saltaire: the head office was reduced to an administration and development centre.〔(Gordon Brown investigates China ) Business Wire, 23 February 2005〕 In March 2002 Pace became the first company to market free-to-view personal video recorders (PVRs).〔(Pace launches Digital Free to View PVR ) Automated Home, 25 September 2002〕 In 2005, Pace in conjunction with Australian subscription television provider Foxtel launched the first DVB-C PVR.〔(Pace to Launch World's First DVB Cable PDR for payTV ) Business Wire, 21 February 2005〕 In April 2006 Neil Gaydon became CEO, taking over from John Dyson, and Mike McTighe became the chairman, taking over from Sir Michael Bett.〔(Gaydon named Pace CEO ) CED Magazine, 5 April 2006〕 In April 2008 Pace acquired the 'Set-Top Box and Connectivity Solutions' division of Royal Philips Electronics, approximately doubling the size of the company.〔(Pace buys Philips set top box business ) The Times Online, 19 December 2007〕 In May 2008 Pace changed its name from ''Pace Micro Technology plc'' to ''Pace plc''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pace Plc (PIC) Company Profile - CorporateInformation.com )〕 In 2010 Pace acquired US home networking equipment maker 2Wire, IP and Cable specialist, Bewan Systems SA〔(Pace Ups Tempo With Bewan Buy ) Light Reading, 2 March 2010〕 and pay-TV software specialist, Latens Systems.〔(Pace buys Irish software company ) Yorkshire Post, 4 November 2010〕 In June 2011 Allan Leighton became chairman.〔(Allan Leighton confirmed as Pace plc Chairman ) Pace, 21 June 2011〕 In December 2011 Neil Gaydon was replaced as CEO by Mike Pulli, formerly president of Pace Americas A significant milestone was reached in 2012 when Pace sold its 100 millionth digital set-top box.〔 In January 2014, Pace completed the acquisition of Aurora Networks, a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced, next-generation optical transport and access network solutions for broadband networks.〔(Pace plc: Completion of Aurora Networks acquisition and Trading Update notification ) Pace, 7 January 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pace plc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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