Broadband access equipment market at $13.7 billion in 2006.

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Market: broadband access equipment forecasts, covering broadband access service demand, and DSL, cable modem and fiber-to-the-premises equipment demand.

• the total market will be worth $13.7 billion in 2006, split between network equipment (53%) and customer premises equipment (47%)

• DSL will maintain a leading share of network equipment (70% in 2006), with CMTS and FTTP splitting the remaining share (15% share each)

• Western Europe will remain the largest regional market throughout the forecast period

• China-India will overtake Asia-Pacific as the second largest regional market by 2010.

Ovum-RHK expects a robust market for broadband access equipment, driven by close to 20% annual growth in broadband subscribers to 2010. 'Applications such as IPTV, triple-play deployments, and higher bit-rate ISP services will continue to drive growth rates in subscribers of 20% and above in all the major markets.'

Broadband Access Equipment forecasts Publ 200512xx