PON and cable equipment sales boosted the broadband access market 13 percent year-over-year in Q1 2016, according to a recently release report from Dell’Oro Group. The availability of DOCSIS 3.1 compatible platforms encouraged strong investment in cable access concentrators, the research firm notes.
“Both PON and cable revenue grew double digits year-over-year. For PON, Huawei, Nokia and ZTE were, in rank order, the top vendors,” Alam Tamboli, senior analyst at the company, reports. “Nokia was able to secure the second-rank over the past two quarters with strength in North America. Meanwhile, all three vendors continued to do well in China.”
Tamboli points out a small decline in 2015, but says the cable market rebounded in the first quarter of 2016.
“Cable access concentrators drove the market with revenues growing almost 50 percent year-over-year. Both Arris and Cisco, the two largest cable access concentrator vendors, saw significant increases in demand for their flagship platforms,” he adds. “Both of these platforms have been available for over a year now and are compatible with DOCSIS 3.1.”
