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Customer
Premises Fiber: The Global Business and Residential Inside Wiring
Revolution
1996-2001
a market research report
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Just the mention of customer premise fiber puts a gleam
in the eyes of network providers and application
developers. For those building multimedia’s future,
fiber reaching the desktop in small commercial office
buildings or replacing the copper twisted pairs and
coaxial cables in living rooms is the stuff of
dreams ... or is it?
In the past, the costs of using fiber were prohibitive
and the difficulties associated with polishing, curing
the epoxy, and heating the connections in portable ovens
precluded its use except for niche applications. Now,
fiber costs have decreased, and new developments such as
crimp-on connectors have eliminated the difficulties of
installing fiber optic components. Fiber is the way to go
when users want to transmit images and full-motion video
to the desktop.
In residential markets, fiber is only just beginning to
be considered a viable economic option. Standards such as
TR-41.8.2 and EIA/TIA 570 are giving the construction
industry, vendors, and network providers a common
language for building code and performance
requirements--which should begin to push market
acceptance toward the end of our forecast period.
In the global marketplace, Asian appetites for premise
fiber solutions will actually outpace North American
growth rates. Insight's research suggests fiber
components will become almost an $8 billion worldwide
market by 2001.
Customer Premise Fiber: The Business and
Residential Inside Wiring Revolution in Global
Markets decomposes multimedia’s future by
predicting how, when, why, and where fiber cabling,
connectors, and patch panels will impact voice and data
applications worldwide. This report dissects the plans of telcos, CAPs, and electrical utilities and tells what
steps are being taken by cable manufacturers and fiber
product vendors to meet each industry’s specific
requirements.
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Report Excerpt
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Fiber Premise Wiring Market: Two Major Segments
Premise fiber wiring is the use of fiber cables and the
related fiber connecting devices inside a premise. There
are two major markets for premise fiber wiring. One is
the commercial building wiring used to support wiring of
voice telephones and personal communication service (PCS)
over local area networks (LANs). The second is now just
emerging; it is the home residential market. This market
is being driven by two different forces: the need to
support future high bandwidth applications, such as
interactive video or high speed Internet access, and the
drive toward home automation for controlling home
appliances, home security systems, or home energy
management.
The evolution of the commercial building wiring market
started with the divestiture of AT&T. Prior to
divestiture, the telephone company provided the voice
inside wiring to the building as part of their tariffed
service offering. During this period, computer wiring
consisted of wiring dumb terminals to host mainframes
inside the building. Computer vendors supplied the
computer wiring, typically coax cable, as part of their
overall computer system offerings.
With divestiture, premise voice wiring has essentially
become the responsibility of the building owner or
tenant. To compound the issue, LANs have become
ubiquitous, expanding the need for premise wiring for
data applications. The LAN wiring was initially
vendor-dependent. This use of various disparate wiring
schemes inside a single building, in part, fostered the
development of commercial building wiring standards. The
Electronics Industry Association/Telecommunications
Industry Association (EIA/TIA) developed a commercial
building wiring standard called the EIA/TIA 568. As a
result of adopting this standard, the wiring used in most
commercial buildings currently is Category 5 unshielded
twisted pair (UTP) copper cables which guarantee
performance up to 100 Mbit/s.
The fiber cabling included in the EIA/TIA standard is
increasingly being used for the interfloor riser cabling.
It is used not only for LAN data applications but also
for interfloor voice wiring applications. The fiber riser
cabling is essentially displacing the bulky multi-pair
riser copper cables which typically consist of 100 to 300
pairs of wires bundled together into a single sheath
cable. Fiber cables provide a lighter, smaller diameter
cable for use in crowded wiring ducts. In the future the
fiber cabling used inside the building is expected to be
fiber to the desk (FTTD) to provide image and video
transmissions over local area networks. Insight's
analysis suggests that fiber will not replace the use of
copper for voice horizontal wiring, but this prediction
could change with the evolution of video telephones which
would require the bandwidth of fiber to transport video
images.
The residential wiring market is currently served by two
independent wiring systems. One is the local loop from
the telco; it connects to the home's inside wiring and
consists of low bandwidth copper UTP cables. The other is
coax cable, which is supplied by the cable television (CATV) operator inside the home. It connects to the CATV
converter box or directly to the TV. As both the telcos
and the CATV companies bring fiber closer to the home, it
is expected that fiber cabling will play a role inside
the home.
It will provide sufficient bandwidth to handle video
applications as well as other new high bandwidth
applications. Insight believes that it makes more sense
when upgrading current copper/coax cable wiring systems
in the home to use fiber rather than coax cabling. The
coax cabling would limit future bandwidth capabilities
while fiber would be able to handle any new high
bandwidth applications.
Fiber Premise Suppliers
There are three major groups of fiber premise suppliers:
- the large telecommunications or computer firms which
offer structured wiring systems,
- the fiber cable and fiber product manufacturers, and
- the newer companies which offer home automation wiring
systems.
The large telecommunications firms that supply structured
wiring systems include Lucent Technologies (formerly
AT&T), Sprint via their North Supply subsidiary, and
Nortel, until recently when they sold their structured
wiring system to CDT (a cable manufacturer). Lucent
Technologies is the leading structured wiring system
supplier. Their highly successful Systimax offering provides both copper and fiber cabling options. Fiber is
used mainly in fiber riser applications.
The second group of suppliers includes the major cable
manufacturers that provide fiber cables as part of their
family of copper, coax, and fiber cables. There also
several cable manufacturers which specialize in fiber
cables, such as Optical Cable Corporation. Premise fiber
cables are their only business. The fiber product
suppliers include companies who specialize only in fiber
optics (such as Siecor). They also include wiring
apparatus manufacturers, such as AMP, The Siemon Company, Krone, or Hubbell.
These companies have expanded their copper wiring
products to include fiber wiring apparatus products.
The third group of companies includes new start-ups, such
as Echelon and US Tec, which specialize in supplying home
automation wiring systems. Another group of suppliers of
home automation systems includes wiring apparatus
manufacturers who are expanding by adapting their
commercial business products for use in residential
applications. Mod-Tap and AMP are examples of this type
of company. Leviton Telcom, because of their interest in
being a major supplier of electrical outlet components,
is developing products which can be plugged into the
power line to control and monitor appliances in the home.
Telco Carrier Interest in Premise Wiring
The telcos are not as active in home wiring as they were
before divestiture. However, Insight has concluded that
as the telcos bring new high bandwidth services into the
home, they will have to once again become involved with
premise wiring. As they develop new services, such as
videoconferencing or interactive video, the telcos will
be the closest to determining the premise wiring
requirements needed to support advanced services. As
competition increases and the telcos and the CATV
operators vie for both residential voice and video
services, the telcos with their longer history in premise
wiring could outflank the CATV companies by providing and
thereby controlling the premise wiring market in the
home. This situation presents an exceptional opportunity
for the telcos to install fiber into the hundred million
US households to assure future proofing for all high
bandwidth applications. The telco strategy should include
not only bringing fiber in the loop (FITL) closer to the
home but to also continuing the high bandwidth pipe using
fiber cable inside the home to assure the residential
customers of reliable future high speed services
throughout the home. The telcos could then leverage this
home fiber wiring strategy to the business market by
becoming the primary supplier of building high bandwidth
fiber cabling.
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Market Segmentation
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- Application
- Voice Backbone
- Data Backbone
- Data Horizontal
- Campus
- Product Class
- Cable
- Hardware
- Patch Panels
- Outlets
- Connectors
- Network Interface Devices
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Table of Contents
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Chapter I
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Fiber Premise Wiring Market: Two Major Segments
1.2 Fiber Premise Suppliers
1.3 Telco Carrier Interest in Premise Wiring
Chapter II
INTRODUCTION
2.1 Evolution of Inside Fiber Building Wiring
2.1.1 FDDI Uses of Fiber Cabling
2.1.2 Campus Fiber Wiring
2.1.3 Fiber To The Desktop
2.2 Evolution of Residential Fiber Wiring
2.2.1 CeBus Residential Wiring
2.2.2 Home X-10 Evolution
2.3 Fiber Cable Characteristics
2.3.1 Single- & Multi- Mode Fiber Cable
2.3.2 Cable Buffers
2.3.3 Fiber Versus Copper Inside Wiring
2.4 Fiber Interconnection Devices
2.4.1 Fiber Patch Panels
2.4.2 Fiber Connectors
2.4.3 Fiber Outlets
2.4.4 Residential Fiber Interconnection Devices
2.5 Fiber In The Loop
2.5.1 FITL Architectures
2.5.1.1 Hybrid Fiber/Coax Architecture
2.5.1.2 Fiber to the Curb Architecture
2.5.2 Recent Product Developments
2.6 Fiber Wiring Applications
2.7 Standards
2.7.1 TR-41
2.7.2 EIA/TIA 568
2.7.3 EIA/TIA 570
2.7.4 Home Automation Association
2.8 Regulatory Situation
2.9 Future Premise Wiring Applications
2.9.1 Vision 2000
Chapter III
TECHNOLOGY
3.1 Telco FITL System Architecture
3.2 CATV Fiber System Architecture
3.3 Digital Video Technology
3.3.1 Digital Video Standards
3.3.2 AT&T’s and Broadband
Technologies’ FTTC System
3.4 Internet Access Technology
3.4.1 Electronic Data Interchange
3.4.2 Low Cost Internet PCs
3.5 ATM Technology
3.5.1 ATM in LANs
3.5.2 ATM in WANs
3.5.3 ATM in Business Applications
3.5.4 ATM in Home Applications
3.6 Wireless Technology
Chapter IV
INDUSTRY
4.1 Industry Structure
4.2 Fiber Cable Manufacturers
4.3 Fiber Product Manufacturers
4.4 Telco Activities
4.5 CAPs Activities
4.6 Electrical Utilities Activities
Chapter V
TELECOM CARRIER PERSPECTIVE
5.1 Telco Outside Fiber Plant Experience
5.1.1 History of RBOC FITL Deployment
5.2 Telco Inside Fiber Plant Experience
5.3 Telco Interactive Video Trial Experiences
5.4 Telco Internet Access Services
Chapter VI
PREMISE FIBER PRODUCT SUPPLIERS
6.1 ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
6.2 AMP, Inc.
6.3 Berk-Tek
6.4 Chromatic Technologies, Inc.
6.5 Comm-Scope, Inc.
6.6 Echelon Corporation
6.7 Hubbell, Inc.
6.8 IES Technologies, Inc.
6.9 Krone, Inc.
6.10 Leviton Telecom, Inc.
6.11 Lucent Technologies
6.12 Mod-Tap
6.13 Optical Cable Corporation
6.14 Ortronics, Inc.
6.15 Panduit Corp.
6.16 Siecor Corporation
6.17 Siemon Company
6.18 Thomas & Betts Corporation
6.19 3M Company
6.20 US Tec, Inc.
Chapter VII
PREMISE FIBER MARKET FORECASTS
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Information Sources
7.3 Total US Premise Fiber Market
7.4 Building Premises Fiber Market
7.4.1 Voice Backbone Wiring Market
7.4.2 Data Backbone Wiring Market
7.4.3 Data Horizontal Fiber Wiring Market
7.4.4 Campus Fiber Wiring Market
7.5 Building Fiber Shipment Value
7.6 Business Premise Fiber Market by Application
7.7 Residential Premise Fiber Market
7.8 Worldwide Premise Fiber Market
Chapter VIII
SUPPLIERS’ STRATEGIES
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Strategies for Premise Fiber Product Suppliers
8.3 Strategies for Fiber Cable Manufacturers
8.4 Strategies for Telcos
Table of Figures
Chapter I
I-1 US Premise Fiber Market, 1995-2001
I-2 Worldwide Premise Fiber Market by Geographic Region, 1996-2001
Chapter II
II-1 Data Backbone Fiber Wiring
II-2 FDDI Architecture
II-3 Hybrid Fiber/Coax FITL Systems
II-4 FTTC Architecture
II-5 Voice Backbone Fiber Wiring
II-6 Data Backbone Fiber Wiring
II-7 Data Horizontal Fiber Wiring
II-8 Campus Fiber Wiring
II-9 Home Automation System
II-10 Residential High Bandwidth Fiber Wiring System
II-11 Elements of the Residential Wiring System Standard
Chapter III
III-1 FTTC Passive Optical Network System Architecture
III-2 HFC FITL System Architecture
III-3 CATV Regional Hub Architecture
III-4 Multimedia Residential Access Architecture
III-5 ATM in Converging Network Infrastructures: Telco and
CATV
Chapter IV
IV-1 CAP Fiber Networks Route Miles in 1994
IV-2 AT&T Integrated Broadband Utility Solution
Chapter VII
VII-1 US Premise Fiber Market, 1996-2001
VII-2 Growth of US Business & Residential Premise
Fiber Market, 1995-2001
VII-3 Voice Backbone Fiber Systems, 1996-2001
VII-4 Growth of LAN Nodes & Fiber BasedBackbone LAN
Nodes, 1996-2001
VII-5 Data Horizontal Fiber Nodes, 1996-2001
VII-6 Growth of Campus Fiber System Sites, 1996-2001
VII-7 Total Business Fiber Cable and Product Shipment Value,1996-2001
VII-8 Voice Backbone Premises Fiber Cable and Product
Shipment Value, 1996-2001
VII-9 Premise Fiber Products Shipment Totals, 1996-2001
VII-10 Premises Fiber Cable and Products Shipments by Application, 1996-2001
VII-11 Total US Households Using High Bandwidth Fiber,
1997-2001
VII-12 Residential Fiber Wiring Revenue from Home
Automation, 1996-2001
VII-13 Revenue from Home Automation and High Bandwidth Applications in the Residential Fiber Wiring Market, 1996-2001
VII-14 Worldwide Premise Fiber Market by Geographic
Region, 1996-2001
Table of Tables
Chapter I
I-1 Worldwide Premise Fiber Market by Geographic Region,
1996 and 2001
Chapter II
II-1 Comparison of Fiber Cable and Copper Cable
II-2 Cable Transmission Performance Parameters for
Single-and Multi-Mode
II-3 TIA/EIA 570 Grades of Service
II-4 TIA/EIA 570 Recommendations for Residential Cabling
Media
Chapter IV
IV-1 RBOC Fiber Activities
IV-2 Electrical Utilities Demand-Side Management
Alliances
Chapter V
V-1 Interactive Television Trials
Chapter VII
VII-1 US Business & Residential Premises Fiber
Market, 1996-2001
VII-2 Shipments of Voice CPE Backbone Fiber Systems,
1996-2001
VII-3 Voice Backbone Fiber Cable
VII-4 Voice Backbone Fiber Products Market: Closets,
Panels, and Connectors, 1996-2001
VII-5 Data Backbone Fiber LANs versus Fiber Nodes,
1996-2001
VII-6 Data Backbone Fiber Cable, 1996-2001
VII-7 Data Backbone Fiber Products: Closets, Patch
Panels, and Connectors, 1996-2001
VII-8 Data Horizontal Fiber Cable,1996-2001
VII-9 Data Horizontal Fiber Products: Patch Panels,
Outlets, and Connectors, 1996-2001
VII-10 Campus Fiber System Sites: Voice versus Data,
1996-2001
VII-11 Campus Fiber Cable, 1996-2001
VII-12 Campus Fiber Products: Patch Panels &
Connectors, 1996-2001
VII-13 Building Fiber Cable Shipment Value by Application,1996-2001
VII-14 Building Fiber Product Shipment Value by Product
Class, 1996-2001
VII-15 Building Fiber Cable and Product Shipment Value,
1996-2001
VII-16 Voice Backbone Premises Fiber Cable and Product
Shipment Value, 1996-2001
VII-17 Data Backbone Premises Fiber Cable and Product
Shipment Value, 1996-2001
VII-18 Data Horizontal Premises Fiber Cable and Product
Shipment Value, 1996-2001
VII-19 Campus Premise Fiber Cable and Product Shipment
Value, 1996-2001
VII-20 Premise Fiber Products Shipments by Application,
1996-2001
VII-21 Premises Fiber Cable and Products Shipments by
Application, 1996-2001
VII-22 Residential Fiber Wiring Home Automation Systems,
1995-2001
VII-23 Residential Fiber Wiring for High Bandwidth
Applications, 1995-2001
VII-24 Residential Fiber Wiring Products Market for High
Bandwidth Fiber, 1996-2001
VII-25 Residential Fiber Wiring Revenue from High
Bandwidth Fiber Shipments, 1996-2001
VII-26 Revenue from the Total Residential Fiber Wiring
Market, 1996-2001
VII-27 Worldwide Premise Fiber Market by Geographic
Region, 1996-2001
VII-28 Worldwide Premises Fiber Market by Country,
1996-2001
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