Worldwide EPON, GPON, and BPON equipment sales are expected to surge to $3 billion in 2009, up 432% from $565 million in 2005, says Infonetics Research in its latest PON, FTTH, and EAD Equipment report.
After more than doubling between 2004 and 2005, the number of worldwide PON subscribers is expected to continue to swell as well, from 4.1 million in 2005 to 38.0 million in 2009.
'The big trend we're seeing with PON is that service providers are really committed to FTTH (fiber-to-the-home), as reflected by the recent increase in longer-term contracts being initiated by larger RBOCs and PTTs,' said Jeff Heynen, analyst at Infonetics Research.
'Video via RF overlay and IPTV, gaming, and other high bandwidth applications continue to drive demand for PON and Ethernet FTTH equipment all over the world.'
Mitsubishi, with their bulk shipments of EPON ONTs to Japan-based service provider NTT, takes over from Hitachi as the leader in 2005 worldwide PON revenue and port market share.
Tellabs is second in worldwide revenue, while Suminet is second in ports shipped and third in revenue, the report said.
Tellabs leads PON revenue in North America, Mitsubishi in the Asia Pacific region, the report said.