Broadband CPE Market Up 3% YoY

According to IHS (NYSE:IHS), the broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) market is up 3% from a year ago. The research house says worldwide broadband CPE revenue dropped to $2.8 billion in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), decreasing 2% sequentially, while unit shipments stayed flat at 54 million.

"Overall, the CPE market remains strong, with revenue up 3% year-over-year," wrote Jeff Heynen, research director for broadband access and pay TV at IHS. "We expect both DOCSIS 3.1 and G.fast to help add momentum to the cable and DSL CPE market segments and FTTH to continue at its current pace, driven by deployments in China, North America and EMEA."

Other findings indicate:

• On a year-over-year basis, global broadband CPE unit shipments were up 9% in 1Q15 as operator investments in premium CPE continued.
• Looking at the product segments, the top performers in 1Q15 were EPON and fixed LTE, which both saw double-digit percentage increases in unit shipments.
• Regional pockets of growth include EPON ONTs and video gateways for cable operators in North America, GPON ONTs in Europe and VDSL CPE in Latin America.
• As service providers use mobile broadband to complement fixed broadband deployments, use cases for mobile broadband routers are anticipated to grow considerably, sending unit shipments to more than 622,000 in 2019.