Huawei and ZTE are the leading fiber CPE vendors whose combined shipments represent around 75 percent of total fiber-optic CPE shipments in 2013, said ABI Research.
ZTE remains top in overall broadband CPE market share in 2013, followed by Arris and Huawei in second and third positions respectively.
Worldwide broadband CPE shipments will reach 154.8 million in 2019 from 146 million in 2013, said ABI Research.
Broadband subscriber net additions as well as existing customers upgrading to higher quality services will continue to drive the shipment of broadband CPE devices.
Fiber-optic CPE represents 26 percent of total shipments in 2013.
DSL broadband CPE shipment dropped over 6 percent in 2013.
In many countries, DSL operators are committed to upgrade an existing network with advanced technology such as VDSL2 vectoring in order to provide higher speeds. Technology upgrade is expected to drive DSL broadband CPE shipments in the years to come, said ABI Research.
Cable broadband CPE shipments grew around 2 percent to 55 million units in 2013.
Nearly two-thirds of cable CPE shipped in 2013 were DOCSIS 3.0 standard devices. DOCSIS 3.0 CPE will account for over 84 percent of cable broadband CPE shipments in 2014.
TelecomLead News Team
