‘If North American RBOCs obtain regulatory relief from the FCC or...
“If North American RBOCs obtain regulatory relief from the FCC or Congress in 2003, DSL subscriptions could consistently grow 15% to 20% every quarter,” said Infonetics Research’s Jon Cordova, lead analyst of Broadband Hardware & Access Routers report. Report…
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said worldwide revenue for DSL, customer-premises equipment (CPE), cable CPE, IADs and access routers reached $1.8 billion in 3rd quarter, worldwide cable modem units grew 17% and revenue 8%. It said steady broadband cable subscriber growth in N. America and strong broadband cable subscriber increases in Europe drove cable CPE market in quarter. DSL market, report said, was highlighted by strong (13%) NGDLC (next generation digital loop carrier) ADSL port shipments in quarter, mostly because of N. American shipments. It said UTStarcom became No. 2 vendor of DSLAM (DSL access multiplexer) ADSL ports. Alcatel’s NGDLC port market share improved to 61% in 3rd quarter from 58% in 2nd quarter, it said. It said Next Level Communications was 3rd in NGDLC market share. Motorola kept its No. 1 position in cable modem sales and Cisco improved its CMTS (cable modem termination system) port market share to 55% from 38% in 2nd quarter.