This document analyzes the Western European cable modem equipment market in 2007. It focuses on vendor market shares for both cable modem termination systems (CMTS) on the operator side and cable modems on the end-user side. Vendors' market shares are calculated according to unit shipments and end-user revenues. In addition, vendors' shares are divided on a country-by-country basis.

As growth rates for the level of broadband subscribers are decreasing, the market for cable modem equipment is increasingly driven by replacement and network upgrades, said Jan Hein Bakkers, research manager at IDC. "VoIP and increasing bandwidth are key accelerators behind this development," he said.