According to the Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide broadband access market, including PON, DSL and cable, is expected to achieve revenues of almost $12 billion by 2019. The research house expects the PON market to account for half of the total broadband access market's revenues.
"We expect continued growth from both the cable and PON markets through 2019, while the DSL market will decline over this period," wrote Alam Tamboli, senior analyst at Dell'Oro. "Growth in the cable market will be driven by DOCSIS 3.1 upgrades, while strong demand for PON will continue to come from service providers in China."
"In addition to China, we expect service providers in other countries to significantly increase their consumption of PON technology going forward," Tamboli continued. "Next-generation PON technologies are also expected to push demand, as TWDM-PON will likely be used for applications beyond residential broadband, including mobile backhaul and business services. Vendors are working to address this first- to second-generation PON technology upgrade path via backwards-compatibility to ensure the PON infrastructure installed today will still be usable in the future."
