According to Infonetics Research, Huawei Technologies led the broadband aggregation market in the second quarter of 2013, followed by Alcatel-Lucent and ZTE.
Further, other players like ECI Telecom and Adtran also witnessed strong growth in the quarter under review. As per the research firm, in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, passive optical network (PON) equipment revenue witnessed a growth of 71 per cent over the previous quarter. The growth was driven largely by projects in Russia which boosted the revenue of telecom equipment manufacturers such as Huawei, ZTE, Alcatel-Lucent and ECI, the primary suppliers of GPON equipment to Russian operators.
The broadband aggregation market including PON, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), and direct subscriber line equipment (DSL)) registered a sequential growth of 6 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 and stood at $1.6 billion. Further, spending on GPON equipment in China increased in the second quarter of 2013, with operators such as China Unicom and China Telecom continuing to roll out GPON-based FTTH and the fibre to the building services.
The total revenue for broadband aggregation equipment in the EMEA region witnessed growth in the second quarter of 2013, though DSL equipment revenue registered a significant decline. In North America, spending on Ethernet PON equipment registered a decline of 8 per cent. However, the EPON gear shipments to cable operators for business services based on DPoE (DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON) continued to grow. Further, operators in Western Europe are no longer undertaking large-scale FTTH rollouts and instead adopting VDSL2. Service providers such as Belgacom, KPN, British Telecom, France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom, Turk Telecom, Telekom Austria, and others are deploying VDSL2.
