Ovum-RHK have published a new Broadband Access Equipment forecast, covering broadband access service demand, and DSL, cable modem, and Fibre to the Premises equipment demand. The main conclusions of the forecast are: This market will be worth US$13.7bn in 2006, split between network equipment (53%) and customer premises equipment (47%); DSL will maintain a leading share of network equipment (70% in 2006), with CMTS and FTTP splitting the remaining share (15% share each); Western Europe will remains the largest regional market throughout the forecast period and China-India will overtake Asia-Pacific as the second largest regional market by 2010. "Ovum-RHK expects a robust market for broadband access equipment, driven by close to 20% annual growth in broadband subscribers through 2010," says Ken Twist, Vice President, Broadband Network Strategies at Ovum-RHK. "Applications such as IPTV, triple-play deployments, and higher bit-rate ISP services will continue to drive growth rates in subscribers of 20% and above in all the major markets." Ovum's broadband services forecast provides subscriber forecasts for fifty countries, while the Ovum-RHK access equipment forecast provides detail for seven geographic regions. DSL equipment forecasts are split into ADSL, VDSL, and SDSL segments, and the FTTP equipment forecast is subdivided first into FTTC and FTTH, and then into BPON, EPON, GPON, and Point-to-point categories.
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