Cable broadband aggregation equipment market to hit $1.4B in 2011

Feb. 29, 2008

FEBRUARY 29, 2008 -- Worldwide sales of cable broadband aggregation equipment increased 13% to $199 million between 3Q07 and 4Q07, the first quarterly revenue increase in 2007, according to Infonetics' latest report.

FEBRUARY 29, 2008 -- Worldwide sales of cable broadband aggregation equipment, which includes CMTS and universal edge QAMs (UEQs), increased 13% to $199 million between 3Q07 and 4Q07, the first quarterly revenue increase in 2007, according to Infonetics Research's (search for Infonetics) latest report.

The firm expects the overall cable broadband aggregation hardware market to grow from $860 million in 2007 to nearly $1.4 billion in 2011, as UEQs increasingly get deployed for DOCSIS 3.0 and switched digital video roll-outs.

"Increasing competition among equipment providers to serve MSOs as they upgrade their cable networks is placing downward pressure on overall CMTS revenue growth, as will the introduction of lower-cost M-CMTS architectures, but we still expect to see sustained annual revenue growth over the next five years," says Mark Showalter, directing analyst for broadband networks at Infonetics Research.

"On the vendor front, Cisco has the early lead in wideband module shipments for CMTS platforms, and universal edge QAMs saw quarterly growth and will continue to see significant growth throughout 2008," Showalter adds.

Other highlights from the report include:

The number of worldwide cable broadband subscribers topped 68 million in 2007.
Cisco holds the lead in CMTS revenue in every region except CALA, where ARRIS continues to make headway among Central and South American cable operators.
After a few down quarters, Motorola is getting back in the race in North America, where ARRIS and Cisco had been battling it out for the top spot in the world's largest CMTS market.
UEQs are beginning to ship in volume and are forecast to grow quickly as more MSOs use UEQs to bond downstream channels and provide more bandwidth for data and video services.
More than half of all 4Q07 cable aggregation revenue comes from North America, about a quarter from EMEA, 14% from CALA, and 10% from APAC.

The report provides worldwide and regional forecasts and market size for cable broadband subscribers split by standard versus wideband, CMTS upstream and downstream ports and revenue, and universal edge QAM channels and revenue.

Market share is provided for Arris, BigBand, Cisco, Motorola, and others. UEQ vendors include ARRIS, C-Cor, GoBackTV, Harmonic, LiquidXStream, RGB Networks, Tandberg TV, Teleste, and Vecima Networks.

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