"But like other operators around the world outside of China," notes Jeff Heynen, principal analyst for broadband access and pay TV at Infonetics Research. "The long-term transition to fiber will happen incrementally, with fiber-to-the-node and fiber-to-the-curb deployments using VDSL2 as a critical, strategic tool in the effort to keep up with subscriber and network bandwidth demands."
Tier 3 Broadband Survey Highlights
- Only 5 percent of operators participating in Infonetics' survey are providing average downstream speeds of 100+ Mbps today, increasing to 45 percent by 2016
- Survey respondents expect capital expenditures earmarked for fixed broadband networks to remain flat
- After 2014, 55 to 75 percent of respondents plan to upgrade and expand their networks with 2.5G GPON and Ethernet FTTH
- Meanwhile, the percentage of respondents upgrading their networks with system-level vectored VDSL2 goes from 0 in 2013 to 30 percent in 2014
- A majority of those surveyed named Calix, Adtran, and Alcatel-Lucent as the top three fixed broadband access equipment suppliers
Comments
Read what others have to say, and share your own thoughts with the community.