Funny thing the
Internet.
When GET, LLC started our
business, a particular report escaped our research from Global Information,
Inc.(GII). The Japan-based information
service has worked for the last quarter century with over 300 research
companies across five countries to distribute quality technical and market
research.
GII wrote a great paper,
though a bit dated (January 2013), that talks about what can be expected to be
one of biggest growth markets in the world-the global structured cabling
market. No one can question, the
market's 6.8% compound annual growth rate. GII noted that the structured
cabling market will exceed $8 billion by 2015.
The U.S. leads this industry today with China and the Asia-Pacific
region growing fast.
We stand at the
cross roads of that growth right here in the Western Pacific at the junction of
the telecommunications superhighway linking North America to Asia and
Australia.
What is driving the
growth?
GII says that the
success of Gigabit Ethernet correlates to its strong presence with structured
cabling. 1000BASE-T, 10G over twisted-pair copper (10GBASE-T) holds the promise
of being less costly than its optical competitor, 10GBASE-SR.
Also, GII says as
power consumption efficiency is resolved through advances in transceiver-chip
lithography, advances in driving down power consumption are breaking through. It is noted that fiber has taken a foothold
in the network at 10G. Fiber-optic products are poised to steadily take market
share from copper products in the structured cabling market over the next five
years. While the copper structured cabling market is expected to shrink, there
is still potential to recognize revenues, particularly in CAT6 UTP for Gigabit
Ethernet and CAT7 for 10G.
GII notes that driven
by a boom in broadband Internet users and the proliferation of bandwidth-hungry
applications such as HD video, Internet bandwidth maintained by major Internet
carriers has been expanding at 75% to 125% per year.
Will we see this in
2014?
In turn, public and private
networks are experiencing unprecedented end-user demand for bandwidth resulting
in a need to cost-effectively scale the capacity of communications networks. We
are starting to see that already. We'll keep you posted.
For all of your
structured cabling needs in the Western Pacific, please contact GET, LLC for
information on our solutions that can be of assistance to you and your
respective businesses including access to the Panduit and Cisco line of
products-of which we are proud Business Partners of both. Give us a call at 671-483-0789 or find out our
more at our website at www.get-guam.com.