Banner Year for GPON

According to Infonetics Research, worldwide spending on broadband aggregation equipment rose 9% in 2014, to $8.2 billion, driven by robust sales of GPON equipment, particularly in China. China accounted for about half of all GPON spending in 2014, while GPON spending in Latin America was up 258%. Among the findings:

• The global broadband aggregation equipment market, including DSL, PON and Ethernet FTTH, closed out 2014 on a strong note, with 4Q14 revenue growing 7% sequentially, to $2.2 billion.
• DSL spending was down 15% in 2014 from 2013 as continued price erosion for ADSL and VDSL tamped revenue.
• Despite the advent of vectoring technology, VDSL port shipments were up only 3% in 2014, mainly because of longer deployment timelines than ADSL, plus competition pushing providers to G.fast or FTTH.
• The top five fixed broadband equipment revenue market share leaders for full-year 2014 are, in alphabetical order, Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent, Calix, Huawei and ZTE.