Birds-Eye.Net tracks events and predictions related to the broadband industry each year. Note that if no source is listed, the information came from multiple sources. For global broadband numbers check out our world telecom numbers spreadsheet.

Actual Events:

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Product or Service Milestones

Federal law mandates that February 17, 2009 is the last day of full-power analog television broadcasting

Buyouts or Deals of Interest

 

Predictions:

CPE:

• By 2009, 16 million homes will be outfitted with networked, multiroom, DVR systems. (Parks Associates)
• By 2009, IP/DSL set top box shipments will grow to 16.9 million(In-Stat)

Data Center:

• By 2009, IPTV services infrastructure capex will grow 1,377 percent, from $304 million to close to $4.5 billion (Infonetics Research)
• By 2009, Quad-core CPUs and DDR3 RAM to go mainstream (Gartner)
• By 2009, more than 4 million virtual machines will be installed on x86 servers (Gartner)
• By 2009, 2.8 billion DSPs to ship by year-end
• By 2009, IT services spending to grow to $759.8 billion (Gartner)
• By 2009, IT-related spending in the broadcasting and cable vertical market is expected to reach $50.2 bln worldwide (Gartner)
• By 2009, 36.9 mln DLC/MSAN ports to ship (InStat)

Mobility:

• By 2009, 23-37 percent of US wireless subscribers to rely on wireless phone as primary phone (InStat)
• By 2009, US subscriptions to TV program content on mobile phones will rise to 15 million )eMarketer_
• By 2009, The Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) infrastructure equipment market for access points is expected to grow to $974.3 million (InStat)

Connectivity:

• By 2009, A device could be sold in stores that would make TV-spectrum Internet work in homes
• By 2009, Hosted PBX market to reach $1.3 bln
• By 2009, 65.7 percent of Americans to have broadband (eMarketer)
• By 2009, 72 percent of large companies to use voice over wireless (Infonetics Research)
• By 2009, WiMAX chipsets to generate $950 million (Gartner)
• By 2009, 105.9 million power over Ethernet switch ports to ship (Gartner)

Market:

• By 2009, 67 percent of Australian households will enjoy high-speed connections (IDC)
• By 2009, more than one third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods. (Gartner)
• By 2009, Television manufacturers will see a surge in cumulative HDTV sales which will boost the overall market value to $65 billion (Parks Associates)
• By 2009, In-game ads to hit $400 million (Gartner)
• By 2009, Online ads will generate 18.9 billion (Gartner)
• Optical
  • By 2009, optical hardware market will reach $11.8 billion. (Infonetics Research)
• Routers, Switches
  • By 2009, the overall market for service provider routers and switches will reach $12.3 billion. (Infonetics Research)
• Video
  • By 2009, Worldwide cable modem subscribers are projected to reach 99 million (InStat)
  • By 2009, Worldwide digital cable TV subscribers will rise to over 108 million (InStat)
  • By 2009, Video on demand to generate $163 per subscriber a month (ABI)
  • By 2009, non-adult video content delivered as subscription or pay-per-download over the Internet will have a worldwide retail value of $2.6 billion (In-Stat)
• VoiP
  • By 2009, 19.8 million subscribers to buy VOIP from their cable companies (IDC)
  • By 2009, The global market for consumer VoIP services is projected to grow to over 55 million (InStat)

Product or Service Milestones:

• Worldwide, the ranks of broadband-enabled hotels will grow to nearly 54,000 properties (InStat)
• DSL
  • By 2009, The number of worldwide DSL subscribers will reach 274 million. (Infonetics Research)
• IPTV
  • By 2009, the number of IPTV subscribers worldwide will grow to $53.7 million. (Infonetics Research)
  • By 2009, the number of IPTV subscribers in North America will increase 12,985 percent (Infonetics Research)
  • By 2009, The number of IPTV networks with over 100,000 subscribers will grow to more than 40 (MGR)
  • By 2009, worldwide IPTV service revenue will grow to over $44 billion. (Infonetics Research)
• Packetcable Voice
  • By the end of 2009, Cable MSOs will achieve 22 percent, 22 million lines, of the residential telephone market whereas telecos' will achieve 6 percent of residential video market. (Convergence Consulting Group)

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