ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new report entitled “G-fast Chips: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020″. This 2014 g.fast chips market report has 256 pages, is supported with 109 tables & figures. Worldwide G.fast Chip markets are increasingly diversified, poised to achieve significant growth as broadband is used in every industry segment. G.fast is able to make the benefits of broadband available to consumers and support network flexibility for consumers, data centers, and cell tower backbone communications.
G.fast networks are flexible and support broadband that is able to reach. According to the lead author of the team that prepared this research, “The opportunity to participate in G.fast Chips markets is compelling. G.fast provides the ability to leverage outdated copper infrastructure to breathe new life into existing investment. This market is evolving as new G.fast technology and vectoring are implemented. Growth in this market based on technical breakthroughs and innovation. Technology platforms are rapidly evolving.”
End to end broadband networks leverage a combination of optical infrastructure in the long haul and copper infrastructure in the last few meters from the distribution box to the home. Fiber has had rapid advance but does not work in the end, it is too expensive to the home. FTTH is too expensive and DSL continues to be a viable alternative, with DSL set to be replaced at the high end initially by G.fast. Copper based broadband technologies promise to last for a long long time. Though for many years FTTH has threatened to make xDSL obsolete, this has not proven to be the case.
Broadband Internet is used in all corners of the world. It is set to be used by everyone by 2025. There is a lot left to be done. Networking Services Company Akamai says the second quarter of 2014 marks the first time the global average broadband speed jumped over the 4-megabit mark. South Korea occupies the top broadband user category in both average bandwidth (24.6 megabits) and proportion of the population on a broadband connection (95 percent, tied with Bulgaria). Smaller islands, the Philippines, countries with lots of rural areas, like India, are struggling to deliver useful speeds.
The U.S. falls behind East Asia, ranking somewhere in the middle, with the Nordic countries, in terms of broadband speed and penetration. Inside the U.S., Delaware appears well equipped with broadband – the Mid-Atlantic state ranked first in every category: average speed, peak speed, connectivity and even “4K readiness,” referring to the 15 megabit speed that can handle ultra-high-def broadcasts. The slowest US state is Arkansas.
Companies discussed in the 2014-2020 g fast chips market report include Analog Devices, Arris, Broadcom, BroadLight, Cavium, Freescale Semiconductor, Ikanos, Infineon Technologies, IXYS Integrated Circuits Division, Lantiq, Marvell, MediaTek / Ralink Technology, PMC-Sierra, Pulse, Sckipio, Shantou New Tideshine Electron, Shenzhen Chaoyue Electronics Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Sky Foundation, Shenzhen Tianxiaowei Electronics Co., Ltd. and ZTE.
Copper represents an installed infrastructure worth trillions and too expensive to just replace. Fiber is too expensive to use it to replace all the copper. FTTH DSL and G.fast, the copper works in many cases and does not need to be re3placed. xDSL markets will be strong for some long time to come as copper remains a transport line.
G.fast leverages copper infrastructure that is everywhere in the telecommunications network. Copper provide connectivity to all residences. Copper is still the primary wireless backbone transport means, meaning it continues to be vital as new wireless systems continue to expand their markets. It predominates in the local loop, creating demand for systems that are able to support high speed signal transport over copper wire.
Copper based broadband is and will remain for the foreseeable future, the dominant broadband access technology across the globe. Broadband service providers who rely on copper loops for broadband access have to improve broadband performance and extend its life. Choices between DSL technologies and G.fast are based on cost. Fiber technologies are used to come to the curb. DSL and G.fast represent a hybrid rooted in a network planning.
G.fast Chips Market Shares
Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications’ web site. View the report: G.fast Chips Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020.
Partial List of Tables and Figures provided in G.fast Chips Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020 research report include:
Table ES-1 25 G.Fast Chip Market Driving Forces 25
Table ES-2 26 Vendor G.Fast Competitive Positioning Factors 26
Figure 2-17 87 DSL and G.fast Copper Infrastructure Subscriber Forecasts, Number, Worldwide, 2014-2020 87
Figure 2-18 88 G.fast Copper Infrastructure Subscriber Forecasts, Number, Worldwide, 2014-2020 88
Table 2-19 90 Broadband G.fast, DSL, Cable Modem, Wireless Device, and Fiber to the Home Subscribers Worldwide, 2014-2020 90
Table 2-20 95 Ethernet Market Aspects 95
Figure 2-21 96 Explosion of Protocols 96
Figure 2-22 98 Broadband Services Typical Speed in Mbps 98
Table 2-23 99 Broadband Fiber Cost Per Household to Build Out 99
Table 2-24 100 DSL Chip Applications 100
Figure 2-25 102 DSL Regional Market Segments, 2013 102
Table 2-26 103 DSL Regional Market Segments, 2013 103
Table 2-27 107 DSL Component Shipments by Vendor by Region Dollars, Worldwide, 2013 107
Figure 3-1 110 FTTH vs. G.Fast Costs for Services Providers 110
Figure 3-2 113 Lantiq G.fast 113
Table 3- 114 Key Features of the Lantiq EASY330 G.Fast Reference Board 114
Table 3- 119 Broadcom BCM65200/900 Family Key Features 119
Figure 3- 122 Simulation of G.fast Rates Over 100-Meter Lines Gives 1.3 Gbit/s by Controlling Ccrosstalk 122
Figure 3-12 127 Ikanos 496pix_Velocity_Chipset2 127
Table 3-33 132 Google Addresses DSL Vectoring 132
Figure 4-1 136 Network Configurations 136
Figure 4-2 137 Innovation In Copper Supports Fiber to Curb Rollout Leveraging Endpoints Using G.fast 137
Figure 4-3 139 G.fast Vectoring 139
Figure 4-4 141 Fiber to the Distribution Point Architecture 141
Figure 4-5 144 Typical DSL Downstream Broadband Capability 144
Figure 4-6 150 G.fast Copper Network Solution 150
Figure 4-7 153 Broadband Services Typical Speed in Mbps 153
Table 4-8 158 Ikanos NodeScale Vectoring Product Key Features 158
Table 4-9 159 Ikanos Quality Video (iQV) technology Key Features 159
Table 5-9 189 Analog Devices Consumer Segment Products 189
Table 5-10 190 Analog Devices Communications Segment Systems 190
Table 5-11 191 Analog Devices Revenue by Regiion 191
Table 5-12 197 Broadcom Broadband Communications Solutions 197
Figure 5- 198 Broadcom Communications Positioning 198
Table 5-13 200 Broadcom Customers and Strategic Relationships 200
Table 5-14 215 Ikanos Product Lines 215
Table 5-15 220 Ikanos Works Directly With Various Major Service Providers 220
Figure 5-16 233 MediaTek Revenue 233
Table 5-17 235 MediaTek Industry Leadership 235
Figure 5-18 236 MediaTek Product Portfolio 236
Global G.fast Chips Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts
