World Telecom Equipment Market

World Telecom Equipment Market

1. The world telecom equipment market is experiencing an upturn with a growth rate of 14% in 2004 and should be worth USD 254 billion by 2009.


2. Carriers capex increase

• Investments by mobile operators, up 18%; totalled USD 93 billion and exceeded that of fixed operators for the first time in 2004
• The Asia-Pacific region confirms its status as the leading zone for operator investment with 9.5% growth


3. Industry transition to next generation equipment accelerates

• Dial-up voice equipment sees downturn: access multiplexers and TDMs
• Very high pressure on equipment prices in high growth segments: DSLAMs, GSM base stations etc.
• Switch to all IP, high speed fixed and wireless access pervasiveness and triple play development are contributing to the deployment of new types of equipment including MSAPs, softswitches, media gateways, ROADMs, multi-service peripheral routers, video servers…


4. Key trends for 2006

• NGN migration in core and metropolitan networks
• Spread of very high speed connections: ADSL2+, VDSL2 and FTTx
• Triple play growth and quadruple play emergence
• Development of Managed Services models


5. Positioning of the 35 leading equipment vendors and 5 emerging companies

• New production, R&D and business models
• New industry landscape: rise of Chinese vendors and new entrants


6. Equipment deployment dynamics in each major geographical market

• USA, Japan, Korea, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK
• Carrier capex level, major deployment announcements, key trends


7. Detailed analysis by segment

• Mobile and fixed devices
• Corporate network equipment
• Fixed access equipment
• Mobile access equipment
• Cable and fibre optic equipment
• Triple play infrastructure equipment
• Routers and data switches
• Transmission and switching equipment
• OSS / BSS

World Telecom Equipment Market