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Broadband Carriers to Spur Home Networking Market
beyond Retail Sales
Data connectivity, VoIP, and multimedia capabilities drive deployment
of advanced customer premise equipment
The number of broadband households with a residential gateway (RG) will
reach 69% by 2009, driven in large part by service providers, according to
Home Networks
and Residential Gateways: Analysis & Forecasts, a new study
from Parks Associates.
The report predicts home networking, as both equipment and service
offerings, will be a major component in the competitive strategies of
broadband carriers in the next five years. During that time, cable, DSL,
and other broadband vendors will take aggressive steps to deploy
voice-over-IP (VoIP) and multimedia services, which will boost the market
for RGs.
“Home networking equipment is shifting from low-cost and relatively
limited devices sold at retail to integrated modem and router platforms
that offer multimedia applications and advanced management software,” said
Kurt Scherf,
vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates. “Broadband
carriers are beginning to dictate the pace of the market for home
networks, creating significant opportunities for third-party vendors to
support more advanced features via customer premise equipment (CPE) and
software solutions.”
Many broadband providers, once reluctant players in the home networking
arena, now view the deployment of network- and multimedia-capable CPE as a
significant move to promote customer retention, lower support costs, and
ultimately produce higher revenues, according to
Scherf.
“In addition to building a more loyal customer base, the RG helps
reduce support costs by providing a solution more integrated with a
carrier’s unique network and business needs,”
Scherf said.
“Software partners who can assist both the carriers and equipment vendors
in developing cost-effective CPE and provisioning services will be key
partners in the home networking value chain.”
Home Networks
and Residential Gateways: Analysis & Forecasts provides an
analysis of the market for carrier-deployed data connectivity solutions.
The report provides residential gateway forecasts and strategies for
players in the home networking value chain. It also includes profiles of
more than 30 key home networking players. For more information about
Home Networks
and Residential Gateways: Analysis & Forecasts, please contact
Parks Associates at 972-490-1113 or
sales@parksassociates.com
or visit
http://www.parksassociates.com.
About Parks Associates: Parks Associates is an
internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing
in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks
Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to
small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research,
custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service
subscriptions.
The company's expertise includes new media, digital
entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home
control systems and security.
Each year, Parks Associates co-hosts executive thought
leadership conferences CONNECTIONS™ and CONNECTIONS™ Europe in
partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®). In addition, Parks
Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in
conjunction with the CONNECTIONS™ Conference series.
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