Asia and the Pacific Rim to Install Almost Four Million xDSL Lines for Businesses, Says
New Report
Charlottesville, Virginia: xDSL, a family of high-speed access technologies that offers access rates
up to 50 Mbps, will be widely deployed for business applications, according to a new report from
Communications Industry Researchers, Inc., (CIR) a leading market research company based here.
The new 550-page report BEYOND T1/E1: A GLOBAL STUDY OF ACCESS
TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES, VOLUME TWO, also notes that ten years from now almost
three quarters of the xDSL installations in the world will be located in the Asian/Pacific Rim region.
According to Lawrence Gasman, president of Communications Industry Researchers, xDSL
technology will be critical to bringing high-speed services, such as Internet access and high-quality
video into offices around the world. "In many parts of the world the infrastructure will continue to be
dominated by copper for many years," says Gasman, "and xDSL provides the opportunities for
PTTs and private service providers to leapfrog over ISDN and give their customers a few Megabits
per second into their premises.
The new CIR study projects that there is a huge potential for selling xDSL equipment and services in
the Asia/Pacific Rim and notes that by next year, this region will have almost as many xDSL lines in
businesses as does the U.S. "Once xDSL use takes off in China and Japan," says CIR's Gasman,
"the xDSL market in the Far East will go through the roof."
This Report Also Includes
xDSL use by business in Asia and the Pacific Rim is just one area that is analyzed in depth by
BEYOND T1/E1: A GLOBAL STUDY OF ACCESS TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES,
VOLUME TWO. Other areas discussed include:
Other emerging high-speed access technologies including Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC)/cable
modems, Fiber-to-the-Home/Fiber-to-the-Curb/Fiber-to-the-Building (FFTH/FTTC/FTTB),
ATM, frame relay, and high-speed satellite and wireless access.
High-speed access in Latin America, Western Europe and Russia. Detailed explanations of
the regulatory, technological and business environments in these regions are provided in
depth.
Residential and business access. Many of today's high-speed access trials are aimed at
residential Internet and video markets. This aspect of high-speed access is thoroughly
reviewed.
BEYOND T1/E1, VOLUME TWO also contains highly detailed forecasts of high-speed access
installations in all the regions covered. These provide projections of installations, service revenues
and shipments of both CPE and service provider equipment. In addition, this new report from CIR
provides detailed profiles of almost 40 vendors of high-speed access equipment active on the
international scene. As its name suggests, BEYOND T1/E, VOLUME TWO is the second in a
series. BEYOND T1/E, VOLUME ONE, which was published last month, covers the high-speed
access market in North America.
The Table of Contents and Executive Summary for both volumes are available on CIR's Web site
(http://www.cir-inc.com/reports/beyondT1E1v2/index.html). Each volume is priced at $6,000
separately, or $9,950 for both volumes. The report is also available in HTML and PDF formats.
Further details of this study can be obtained from Robert Nolan at 804-984-0245 x 15 or
rob@cir-inc.com.
Communications Industry Researchers, Inc., has been in business since 1979. The company
publishes market studies and newsletters, and carries out demanding custom market research
assignments on the commercial aspects of new communications technologies.
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xDSL Installations for Business Use Worldwide (000s of Lines)
1997
1998
2001
2006
U.S. Medium-to-Large Business
0.4
4.0
28.2
55.2
U.S. SOHO
12.5
30.0
283.0
823.0
TOTAL U.S.
12.9
34.0
311.2
878.2
Latin America
0.2
1.3
10.5
148.0
Asia and the Pacific Rim
3.6
32.2
352.0
3782.0
Western Europe
1.0
7.5
38.0
344.0
WORLDWIDE TOTAL
17.7
75.0
711.7
5152.2 |
