Re: European DSL Stats
Thread- Lot's of information for last mile infrastructure investors below. So much so, I gave up trying to bold key points. As can be seen, 1999 was almost negligible for DSL spending. But as this report and so many others say it's going to ramp up quite rapidly. I hope they are right. -MikeM(From Florida)
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Increased Competition Driving Demand For European DSL
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 2000 FEB 4 (NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis, Newsbytes. A report just published says that total digital subscriber line (DSL) equipment revenues from shipments of commercial lines in service reached $25.7 million in Western Europe in 1999. The report says that, by the end of 2000, this amount will grow more than 350 percent. And, in 2003, IDC predicts the market to pass the $1 billion mark with total end-user revenues of $1.7 billion.
Richard Mol, the research firm's senior analyst, said that the study indicates that developments in the broadband access sector have accelerated this year in Europe. Cable operators across Europe, the firm says, are rolling out new services, and numerous start-up network service providers are eagerly waiting for deregulation to kick in to penetrate the local access loop.
These developments, IDC says, have spurred national telcos in most European countries to speed up their DSL deployment plans, and many other operators have either announced their plans in this area or have already started to roll out DSL services. "Over the next four years, there will be spectacular growth in the European DSL equipment market, as many service providers are committed to steadily upgrading their central offices with digital subscriber line access multiplexer equipment," Mol said.
Mol added that he expects to see a rapid uptake of DSL services by enterprise and residential users as soon as they become available." IDC's report concludes that total DSL equipment revenues result from two main categories of equipment sales - firstly customer premises equipment, including modems and DSL termination points within such devices as routers, and secondly, network equipment.
The network equipment category itself falls into several sections - DSL access multiplexer, DSL interfaces for integrated access switches, ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) WAN (wide area network) switches, remote access servers, and remote terminals. |
