Penetration of higher functioned Cable CPE including
DOCSIS 3.0 enabled devices, as well as those that have embedded wireless LAN,
is rapidly increasing as shipments for CPE bearing these features doubled over
the year-ago period during the third quarter of 2011, says Dell’Oro Group.
“With costs for DOCSIS 3.0 CPE declining, a trend is
emerging where operators are making these devices standard and not just
purchasing them for subscribers who pay for higher bandwidth DOCSIS 3.0
service,” said Tam Dell’Oro, president of Dell’Oro Group.
In the third quarter, Arris is the lead vendor in terms
of total Cable CPE unit shipments, followed by Cisco, Motorola Mobility,
Technicolor and Ubee Interactive Dell’Oro Group Quarterly
Access Report said.
“Historically, cable operators were reluctant to be
involved in setting up subscriber’s home networks and left it up to subscribers
to purchase their own stand alone wireless routers. However, due to
subscriber demand, competition, increased functionality, and lower costs for
integrated Cable CPE with Wireless LAN, operators are increasingly providing
these devices to their subscribers,” Tam added.
Earlier in September ABI Research
said in the rapidly evolving enterprise communications market, CPE
vendors confront imminent erosion in their installed base as cloud services
gain traction across the public, private, and hybrid cloud domains.
By 2016, 41 percent of all enterprise communications
users, or 386 million lines/seats, will be on virtual infrastructure, posing a
serious danger to the CPE market, ABI Research said.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
