Broadband Access Equipment Spending to Drop 7% in 2020
|Global headwinds in 2020 will result in a 7% Y/Y decline in broadband access equipment spending, as service providers try to deliver judicious bandwidth growth to satisfy increased demand from telework and online education applications, while also preserving capital for a return to growth in 2021 and beyond.
RAN market poised to eclipse $200B: Dell’Oro Group
|COVID-19 has not killed the radio access network (RAN) market. In fact, the Dell’Oro Group just upwardly revised its projections for the sector, saying the RAN market will grow at a healthy pace over the next three years. Cumulative investments over the 2019-2024 forecast period are expected to be over $200 billion.
Worldwide Data Center Capex to Grow 6 Percent CAGR by 2024
|Data center capex is forecasted to grow at a 6% CAGR to just over $200 B over the next five years. However growth is forecasted to be mixed depending on the customer segment. The Cloud, which already accounts for more than 60% of the worldwide data center capex, will continue to gain momentum over Enterprise/On-premise data center deployments. Edge data centers deployed over Telco networks could emerge in the longer-term horizon.
Radio Access Network Investments to Surpass $0.2 Trillion
|The global upswing that began in the second half of 2018 has become deeper and stronger. Even with the higher-than-usual degree of uncertainty around the economy, we forecast that the RAN market will grow at a healthy pace over the next three years, before growth tapers off in the outer part of the forecast period, resulting in a mid-single digit CAGR between 2018 and 2022. Cumulative investments over the 2019-2024 period are expected to eclipse $200 B.
Optical Transport Market to Expand for many more Years, Reaching nearly $18 Billion, According to Dell’Oro Group
|The world experienced a global pandemic in 2020 that ushered in a global economic recession. It is still unknown how much longer the coronavirus, COVID-19, will spread and cause economic disruptions, and at what rate the global economy will recover following massive shutdowns in the first half of the year. That being said, while in past macro-economic recessions the Optical Transport market would contract, we believe that in this recession, the demand for Optical Transport will increase as a large number of people shift to remote learning and working.
