Huawei, 2Wire and Thomson make major gains across broadband CPE market share segments, says In-Stat

Huawei Technologies, 2Wire and Thomson captured major market share gains in the 2008 broadband customer premise equipment (CPE) segment. The broadband CPE segment includes cable and DSL modems, routers, Wi-Fi aggregators and residential gateways, with each company demonstrating unique gains, according to In-Stat.

California-based 2Wire stood out with significant market share gains across the key residential gateway segment. It gained almost 6pp in market share in the worldwide residential gateway market. In the home Wi-Fi aggregator segment, which overlaps total broadband routers and gateways, 2Wire took over the number two position from Netgear, gaining 4.8pp of share, In-Stat said.

China-based Huawei's major accomplishment was in the worldwide DSL modem market, where it gained over 10pp. Huawei achieved an impressive unit growth rate of over 68%, compared to market-wide growth of just under 2%.

Meanwhile, Thomson saw the most broad-based share gains, performing strongly across nearly all the segments it competes in, making moderate market share gains in the total and embedded multimedia terminal adapter (E-MTA) cable modems, Wi-Fi aggregators, and residential gateway segments, in-stat noted. In addition, Thomson maintained its number one market share position in the residential gateway market.

In general, annual growth of residential gateway shipments plummeted in 2008 to only 0.5%, down from 2007's heady growth of nearly 32%. Unit shipments of cable modems with an E-MTA dropped to 15.2 million units in 2008, according to In-Stat.