Chinese telecom equipment vendor ZTE is leading the broadband customer premise equipment (CPE) market in the third quarter of 2013. With 12 percent share, Arris-Motorola has overtaken Huawei which owns 11 percent CPE market share.
ZTE, which is in the process of reviving its business, has 13 percent market share in the broadband CPE space. Arris jumped to second place after acquiring Motorola’s Home Division in April 2013, ABI Research said.
The research agency says broadband CPE shipments — modems, wired routers, and gateways — at the end of 2013 are expected to surpass 147 million. Despite a growing broadband subscriber base and increasing demand for advanced broadband services, broadband CPE shipments are expected to grow to 150 million in 2014.
Increasing adoption of fiber-optic broadband services is driving the growth of fiber-optic CPE shipments. Fiber-optic CPE will represent 26 percent of overall broadband CPE shipped in 2014. Cable and DSL CPE devices will have equal market share of around 37 percent, said ABI Research’s VP and practice director Jake Saunders.
As cable broadband operators extend to DOCSIS 3.0 networks, DOCSIS 3.0 CPE shipment is gaining market share.
In 2014, DOCSIS 3.0 CPE devices shipped will reach 50 million, accounting for more than 89 percent of cable CPE shipments.
Total DSL CPE shipments by the end of 2013 are likely to be around 2 percent lower than total shipments in 2012; mainly due to slow subscriber net addition in DSL broadband service.
However, since DSL operators continue to upgrade to higher speed VDSL services, VDSL CPE shipments are growing stronger. VDSL CPE will account for over 25 percent of DSL CPE device shipments in 2014.
