Cable Broadband Up 14% Y-o-Y in Q3

The worldwide sales of cable broadband have been found increasing by 14 percent year-over-year in the third quarter. Going by a new report by Infonetics Research, though the cable broadband equipment had shown a slow down during the third quarter, the overall global revenue was up by 14 percent compared with the previous year’s number. And, that shows the demand of increased broadband capacity among cable operators has not decreased.

Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband access and video at Infonetics Research, feels that there has been a significant growth in CMTS downstream for residential customers, which indicates that the cable operators continue laying the foundation for DOCSIS 3.0 services and IP video.

There are four main Combined Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) equipment vendors – Cisco, Motorola, Arris, and Casa systems – of which only Cisco’s market share was up year-on-year, at 59 percent. What’s interesting is that this figure was just one point short of its all-time-high during the previous two quarters.

After two quarters of good gain, the overall CMTS and edge QAM revenue was down by 11 percent to $413 million in the third quarter.

There has also been an increase in edge QAM revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) by 11 percent as operators continued to spend on edge QAMs to support DOCSIS/M-CMTS implementations.

The research also revealed that the North American cable broadband equipment was down 10 percent sequentially, it was up 37 percent year-over-year.

The number of cable broadband subscribers is estimated to grow up to 125 million in 2015 from the 108 million subscribers worldwide in 2010.