Mumbai: Worldwide cable modem market shipments crossed 3 million units in the third quarter of 2002, Dataquest Inc, a unit of Gartner Inc, announced. This is a 19.4-per cent increase from the 2.5 million units in the third quarter of 2001. A Gartner analyst said in a company press release that North America continued to see strong demand for cable broadband access services in the third quarter of 2002. Patti Reali, principal analyst for Gartner Dataquest's worldwide telecommunications group, said: ''Shipments of cable modems reflect this trend. US-based vendors will start to see even more intense competition for the low-end, simple-functionality modems from the Asian-based manufacturers.'' Motorola Broadband Communications remained No 1 with 32.6 per cent of the market. The company continued to do well in the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) space, where it was also the top vendor. Terayon fell from No 2 to No 5 because of a weak quarter in the non-DOCSIS segment. Gartner Dataquest found that non-DOCSIS units accounted for only 1.3 per cent of worldwide cable modem CPE units in the third quarter of 2002. Worldwide cable modem CPE vendor unit shipment estimates, 3Q02 | | Shipments 3Q02 (thousands) | Market Share (%)3Q02 | Shipments 3Q01 (thousands) | Market Share (%)3Q01 | Growth (%) | | Motorola Broadband Communications | 980 | 32.6 | 825 | 32.8 | 18.8 | Toshiba America | 356 | 11.8 | 325 | 12.9 | 9.5 | Ambit | 323 | 10.7 | NA | NA | NA | Thomson | 280 | 9.3 | 259 | 10.3 | 8.1 | Terayon | 186 | 6.2 | 340 | 13.5 | -45.3 | Others | 881 | 29.3 | 769 | 30.5 | 14.6 | | Total | 3,006 | 100.0 | 2,518 | 100.0 | 19.4 | | Source: Gartner Dataquest (December 2002) Gartner Dataquest expects the market to shift away from retail brands to units made by original design manufacturers (ODMs) with aggressive support from cable modem chip vendors, essentially cutting out the need for name brand vendors. This trend has already begun in the Asia-Pacific region.
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