Cable Modems are the Residential Choice, Says Allied Business Intelligence.Business Editors OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000 "Subscribers to data over cable services will increase from 3.3 million subscribers worldwide in 1999 to 58.6 million subscribers worldwide in 2005, a compound annual growth rate of 61%," says Joshua Wise, an analyst at Allied Business Intelligence (ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. ). This increase will be led by the US, the leader in cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. subscribers, with a jump from 2.1 million subscribers in 1999 to 14 million subscribers in 2005, a compound annual growth rate of 37%. Allied Business Intelligence's report, "Cable Modems Worldwide: High-Speed Internet See broadband. Access Over Cable Networks," examines the current deployment of data over cable service in the largest cable markets around the world, and the potential for future deployments through the year 2005. Additionally, the report is broken down into regional analyses -- North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific Rim and Latin/South America. There are two technologies available today that allow reasonably priced high-speed data access to the residential user -- cable modem and DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary . So far, cable has been the clear leader, due in large part to its earlier market entry. As of the end of 1999, high speed cable Internet Internet access via the cable companies. There are two kinds of service. One uses a cable modem to connect to a computer, and the other uses an enhanced cable box that provides Internet access directly at the TV. service had 2.1 million US subscribers, while DSL only had a half million US subscribers, according to ABI. Cable's continued growth will stay primarily within the residential arena, but there will be a small minority of businesses that will be embrace cable as their access medium of choice. Cable will maintain its number one position in the residential market in no small part due to its ease of installation. Cable networks, unlike phone lines, generally do not present "line qualification" problems, which may delay, or even prevent, DSL installation. Allied Business Intelligence Inc, is an Oyster Bay, NY-based technology research think tank specializing in communications and emerging technology markets. ABI publishes strategic research on the broadband, wireless, electronics, networking and energy industries. Details of these studies can be found at www.alliedworld.com. Or call 516-624-3113 for more info. |
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