Shipments of Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) gear jumped worldwide in the second quarter as more cable operators embraced the next-gen headend equipment.

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

August 29, 2014

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CCAP Shipments Surge for Cable Vendors

The cable industry's much-anticipated CCAP transition is now well underway.

Shipments of the next-gen Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) equipment leaped in the second quarter, according to the latest report from Infonetics Research Inc. The firm found that vendor revenue from CCAP shipments surged 42% globally in the spring quarter on a sequential basis, as cable providers sought to take advantage of the new platform's higher densities, greater cost efficiencies and lower per-channel prices.

"The velocity of the shift from CMTS (cable modem termination system) to CCAP remains phenomenal," says Jeff Heynen, principal analyst for broadband and pay TV at Infonetics. North American cable operators accounted for much of that shift, with CCAP shipment revenues in the region climbing 39% from the previous quarter.

Due largely to the surge on the CCAP end, the combined shipments of upstream and downstream DOCSIS channels for CCAP, CMTS, edge QAM modulator and coaxial media converts (CMCs) scaled the 1 million level for the first time in the second quarter. Infonetics reported that DOCSIS channel shipments hit 1.2 million in the spring, boosting revenue to $411 million, up 24% from the first quarter.

Get the latest updates on the next-gen cable infrastructure market by visiting Light Reading's CCAP/next-gen nets content channel.

As they have before, Arris Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS), Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Casa Systems Inc. ranked as "the top dogs" in the DOCSIS channel market. No other cable vendors apparently came close.

Unlike in previous reports, Infonetics did not break down the market shares for the different vendors. In its first-quarter report, the research firm found that Arris led the way in combined CCAP and CMTS equipment market share, followed closely by Cisco. Casa came in a strong third place. (See Casa Seizes Early CCAP Lead.)

— Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

Alan Breznick

Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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