Jul 16, 2001 : Demand For Broadband to Outpace DSL
📅 - Worldwide broadband Internet subscribers will total over 15million in 2001 and over 30 million in 2004, according to a new report fromMultimedia Research Group, Inc (mrg.com). An additional 24 million have broadband access through office LANs.
Within this context, revenues for IP (streaming) media servers and storageare at $3.2 billion worldwide, with a forecast of over $5 billion in 2004.The report shows that continued growth in streaming is driven mainly bydemand for high_speed (broadband) Internet, by high expectations ofbroadband users, and by big advances in corporate use of streaming.
"The Internet is real and will not go away," says MRG analyst, KristaChristian. "Streaming also is a real outgrowth of the high broadband demandand of well_run media companies and departments with business models farmore robust than the dot_coms."
While cable broadband Internet is likely to stay ahead of DSL in the US, DSLis likely to pass cable in global broadband markets. In North America,massive last_mile upgrades for cable broadband have continued on schedule in2001, in contrast to last_mile infrastructure pullbacks by large US telcos.
"This pull_back can be very dangerous for the big telcos," says MRG CEO,Gary Schultz, "because large cable companies like Comcast and AOL/TimeWarner can stay ahead of DSL and steal some voice business as well."
Satellite and MMDS broadband also are poised to provide new threats totelco_dominated DSL.
Within this context, revenues for IP (streaming) media servers and storageare at $3.2 billion worldwide, with a forecast of over $5 billion in 2004.The report shows that continued growth in streaming is driven mainly bydemand for high_speed (broadband) Internet, by high expectations ofbroadband users, and by big advances in corporate use of streaming.
"The Internet is real and will not go away," says MRG analyst, KristaChristian. "Streaming also is a real outgrowth of the high broadband demandand of well_run media companies and departments with business models farmore robust than the dot_coms."
While cable broadband Internet is likely to stay ahead of DSL in the US, DSLis likely to pass cable in global broadband markets. In North America,massive last_mile upgrades for cable broadband have continued on schedule in2001, in contrast to last_mile infrastructure pullbacks by large US telcos.
"This pull_back can be very dangerous for the big telcos," says MRG CEO,Gary Schultz, "because large cable companies like Comcast and AOL/TimeWarner can stay ahead of DSL and steal some voice business as well."
Satellite and MMDS broadband also are poised to provide new threats totelco_dominated DSL.
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