Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: November 2003
Product Code: R97-1460Description When the first cable telephony services were introduced, the initial response from both investors and competitive service providers was either puzzlement or a big yawn. After all, why would cable operators spend enormous amounts of capital to provide a service that was readily, and inexpensively, available from traditional voice carriers? The cable operators believed two things:
1. A bundle of video, voice, and data services could attract new subscribers.
2. Advances in Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) technology would offer an increasingly cost-effective way to provide telephony services over their existing cable TV infrastructure.
Time has proven the cable industry correct on both points, and, as of mid-2003, more than 9.5 million households and businesses around the world had signed up for cable telephony service.
This report examines and updates cable telephony services provided by cable TV operators. It covers market and industry drivers for cable telephony, examines network architectures, and discusses existing technology standards. The report focuses closely on the transition from circuit-switched cable telephony services to VoIP services, and forecasts worldwide cable telephony subscribers and revenues through the year 2007.Table of Contents - Executive Summary
- Methodology
- Overview: The Long & Short of Cable Telephony
- Today's Cable Telephony Market
- Market Drivers for Cable Telephony
- The Technology Progression of Voice over Cable
- Cable Telephony Network Architectures
- The Circuit-switched Network
- The "Hybrid" Network Architecture
- The Future: VoIP Networks
- IP Voice Service
- The IP Difference
- The IP Network and the PSTN
- Types of IP Telephony
- VoIP in an HFC Network
- IP Network Architecture
- VoIP-based Cable Telephony Trials & Deployments
- The Twisted-Pair Overlay Network
- VoIP Cable Telephony Technology Standards
- Cable Modem Standards & DOCSIS
- DOCSIS 1.1
- DOCSIS 2.0
- PacketCable
- IPCablecom: A Global PacketCable Effort
- Cable Telephony Provisioning Costs: Circuit-switched vs. VoIP
- Cable Telephony Service by Region
- North America
- US
- Comcast
- Cablevision
- Charter Communications
- Cox Communications
- GCI
- Insight Communications
- RCN
- Time Warner Cable
- Canada
- Europe
- NTL
- Telewest
- UGC Europe
- ROW
- Australia
- Chile
- Japan
- Hong Kong
- Israel
- Equipment Manufacturers & Service Provider Partners
- Cable Modems/MTAs and CMTS Manufacturers
- ADC
- Arris
- Cisco Systems
- Motorola Broadband
- Scientific-Atlanta
- Terayon
- Thomson
- Toshiba
- Gateway & Switch Vendors
- Cedar Point Communications
- Cisco Systems
- Convergent Networks
- Gallery IP Telephony
- Lucent Technologies
- Nortel Networks
- Nuera Communications
- Siemens ICN
- Sonus Networks
- Syndeo
- "Virtual" or Voice-over-Broadband Service Providers
- Vonage
- Net2Phone
- Cable Telephony Forecasts
- Subscriber Forecasts
- Service Revenue Forecast
- List of Tables
Table 1. Cable Telephony Market Drivers
Table 2. 2003 Telephone Service Prices in Orange County, CA: Cox vs. SBC
Table 3. Timeline: The Progression of Cable Telephony Technology
Table 4. US Cable Telephony Subscribers by MSO
Table 5. North American Cable Telephony Deployments and Trials
Table 6. UGC Europe Cable Telephony Subscribers by Country
Table 7. Multimedia Terminal Adapters: Available Products
Table 8. PacketCable Qualified CMTS Products
Table 9. Worldwide Cable Telephony Subscriber Forecast (Subscribers in Thousands)
Table 10. Worldwide VoIP Cable Telephony Subscribers (Subscribers in Thousands)
Table 11. Worldwide Cable-based Voice-over-Broadband User Forecast (Users in Thousands)
Table 12. Worldwide Cable Telephony Installed Lines (Lines in Thousands)
Table 13. Cable Telephony Penetration of Forecasted Cable TV subscribers (Subscribers in Millions)
Table 14. Worldwide Cable Telephony Service Revenues (US$ in Millions)
- List of Figures
Figure 1. Circuit-switched Network Diagram
Figure 2. Hybrid Circuit-switched/IP Network Diagram
Figure 3. VoIP Network Diagram
Figure 4. Primary PacketCable Equipment Components
Figure 5. Circuit-switched Cable Telephony Costs ($ per line)
Figure 6. VoIP Cable Telephony Cost Estimate: Network Powered ($ per line)
Figure 7. VoIP Cable Telephony Cost Estimate: Premises Powered ($ per line)
Figure 8. Worldwide Cable Telephony Subscriber Forecast (Subscribers in Thousands)
Figure 9. Worldwide Cable Telephony Service Revenues (US$ in Millions)
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