PCCA Journal 1st Quarter 2014 - page 37

PCCA Journal|1
st
Quarter 2014
37
M
arket research firm
Infonetics Research
recently released
excerpts from its
“2013 Tier 3 Broad-
band Strategies and Vendor Leadership:
North American Service Provider Sur-
vey,” for which Infonetics interviewed
tier 3 operators in the U.S. to understand
what types of fixed broadband speeds
and technologies they deliver today and
how and when they plan to upgrade
their subscribers to support higher data
rates.
“Tier 3 operators in the U.S. are al-
ready heavily invested in FTTH networks
and will continue to expand their fiber
availability until they reach their entire
subscriber base,” said Jeff Heynen, prin-
cipal analyst for broadband access and
pay TV at Infonetics Research.
“But like other operators around the
world outside of China,” he said, “the
long-term transition to fiber will happen
incrementally, with fiber-to-the-node
and fiber-to-the-curb deployments using
VDSL2 as a critical, strategic tool in the
effort to keep up with subscriber and
network bandwidth demands.”
Survey highlights include:
• Only 5 percent of operators participat-
ing in Infonetics’ survey are providing
average downstream speeds of 100+
Mbps today, increasing to 45 percent
by 2016
• Survey respondents expect capital
expenditures earmarked for fixed
broadband networks to remain flat
• After 2014, 55 to 75 percent of respon-
dents plan to upgrade and expand
their networks with 2.5G GPON and
Ethernet FTTH
• Meanwhile, the percentage of respon-
dents upgrading their networks with
system-level vectored VDSL2 goes
from 0 in 2013 to 30 percent in 2014
• A majority of those surveyed
named Calix, Adtran, and Alcatel-Lu-
cent as the top-three fixed broadband
access equipment suppliers
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Infonetics Looks at Wireline Broadband Market
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