Jeff Heynen

Vice President

The Broadband Access and Home Networking market is changing dramatically as firms rapidly introduce new technologies to enable next-generation services.

To take advantage of the opportunities in these markets, component manufacturers, equipment vendors, service providers, and financial institutions need to answer critical business questions, including:

  • How quickly will operators transition to 10G technologies, including XGS-PON and NG-PON2, as well as next-generation technologies such as 25G and 50G PON?
  • How much longer will operators continue to rely on copper technologies, particularly VDSL Profile 35b, and G.fast?
  • When will cable operators begin their migration to distributed access architectures and virtualized infrastructure?
  • When will cable operators begin their transition to Flexible MAC Architectures (FMA)?
  • Which technologies will cable operators select for their DAA deployments and how will MSOs determine when to begin overbuilding with fiber?
  • How quickly will cable operators migrate to DOCSIS 4.0 and will they deploy full duplex or extended spectrum?
  • What will the Fixed Wireless market look like, and how will it affect deployments in the Fixed Wireline market?
  • How quickly will Wi-Fi 6E, and Wi-Fi 7 be integrated into broadband Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and consumer Wi-Fi routers?
  • Which vendors will end up leading the mesh router market?
  • What will be the impact on CPE suppliers of service providers offering increasing smart home and managed Wi-Fi solutions?
  • Which equipment vendors lead their respective markets, both worldwide and regionally?

To answer these and other important questions, Dell’Oro Group delivers both quarterly reports and 5-year forecasts on the Broadband Access and Home Networking market.

Broadband Access and Home Networking Quarterly Reports

Dell’Oro Group publishes Broadband Access and Home Networking quarterly reports with in-depth market-level and detailed vendor market share information on the following markets:

  • Cable
  • DSL: ADSL, G.SHDSL, VDSL, VDSL Profile 35b, G.FAST
  • PON: EPON, GPON, XG-PON1, XGS-PON, NG-PON2, 25G PON, 50G PON

Cable

The Cable equipment we report separately includes:

  • Cable Outside Plant Equipment
    • Optical Nodes
    • Amplifiers
    • Taps
    • Line Passives
    • Power Inserters
  • Cable Aggregation Equipment
    • Integrated CCAP/CCAP Core Platforms
    • Virtual CMTS/CCAP (vCMTS/vCCAP) Platforms
    • Remote PHY Devices (RPDs)
    • Remote MACPHY Devices (RMDs)
    • Remote OLTs (R-OLTs)
  • Cable Converged Interconnect Network (CIN) Equipment
    • Hardened/Non-Hardened Aggregation Routers
    • Top of Rack Switches
    • Optical Mux/Demux Platforms
  • Cable Modem CPE
    • Data-only Cable CPE
    • Voice and Data Cable CPE
    • Cable CPE with WLAN
    • DOCSIS 3.0/3.1/4.0
    • 8×4, 16×4, 24×8, 32×8 (OFDM), Full Duplex

We also discuss technology trends such as the rate of migration from one DOCSIS technology to the next one, and the transition to more WLAN-capable CPE devices.

DSL

The DSL equipment we report separately includes:

  • DSL Access Concentrators (DSLAM)
  • DSL CPE Modems
  • Data-only DSL Routers
  • Voice and Data DSL Routers
  • DSL CPE with WLAN

PON

The PON equipment we report separately includes:

  • PON Access Concentrators (EPON, GPON, NG-PON2, XG-PON1, and XGS-PON, each reported separately)
  • PON CPE (EPON, GPON, NG-PON2, XG-PON1, and XGS-PON, each reported separately)
  • PON CPE (multiple user and single user, each reported separately)

Residential WLAN

The residential WLAN equipment we report separately includes:

  • Wireless Routers (802.11b/g, Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, mesh/non-mesh, 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6 Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7)
  • Broadband CPE with WLAN (Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7)

The reports include tables showing manufacturers’ revenue, ports/units shipped, and average selling prices. The report also looks at regional trends such as the uptake of PON in China and why purchase patterns differ from other regions.

We also track:

  • The Broadband Access and Home Networking market by region – North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Asia Pacific, and CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)
  • DSL Access Concentrator vendor port shipments by region – North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Asia Pacific, and CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)
  • DSL CPE vendor unit shipments by region – North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Asia Pacific, and CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)
  • PON Access Concentrator vendor port shipments by region – North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), China only, Asia Pacific excluding China, and CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)
  • PON CPE vendor unit shipments by region – North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), China only, Asia Pacific excluding China, and CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)

Broadband Access and Home Networking 5-Year Forecasts

Dell’Oro Group publishes Broadband Access and Home Networking 5-year forecasts offering a complete overview of the market with historical data from 1994 to the present. The forecasts provide a comprehensive overview of market trends and include tables covering revenue, port/unit shipments, and average selling price forecasts for various technologies:

  • Cable (CMTS, CCAP/CCAP Core, Virtual CMTS/CCAP, Remote PHY Devices, Remote MACPHY Devices, Remote OLTs)
  • DSL (ADSL, G.SHDSL, SDSL+IDSL+HDSL2, VDSL, VDSL Profile 35b, G.fast)
  • PON (EPON 1 Gbps / 10 Gbps; GPON 2.5 Gbps; 10 Gbps XG-PON1; XGS-PON; NG-PON2; 25Gbps PON, 50Gbps PON; vOLT (Virtual OLT); Combo OLT ports)
  • Residential Fixed Wireless: Indoor and Outdoor CPE (4G/LTE, 5G Sub-6Ghz, 5G mmWave, Terragraph/802.11ay)
  • Mesh Router and Broadband CPE

Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) technology includes voice-enabled or data-only, as well as wireless-enabled or wired-only.

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