DSLAM Market Has Reached Maturity

In-Stat: With Internet users needing faster connections for multimedia applications, the global market for DSLAMs will grow to 89.1 million ports by the end of 2010, up from 76 million in 2005. A combination of dial-up users moving to broadband and broadband users moving to higher-speed lines continues to create growth in the DSLAM market.

The DSLAM market has reached full maturity,. Total market revenues will decline over the next five years, as decreased ASPs will be greater than the growth of new port shipments.

• Alcatel, with 28.4% of the market, was the leading vendor in 2005.

• There will be continued movement away from the standalone DSLAM towards more multi-service access platforms over the next few years.

• IP DSLAMs are merging into full Ethernet service platforms.

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