Overview:
A new premise wiring market is about to explode for schools, libraries and hospitals as a result of the Universal Service Fund made available under the Telecommunication Act of 1996. Over $2.5 billion per year will become available for schools, libraries and hospitals to equip their facilities to handle the need of the information age
The information age is upon us, but how will information to be distributed within commercial buildings, institutions, and residences? This groundbreaking study is the first total available market, TAM, investigation of this necessary link in the information highway. It shows the commercial market is woefully under cabled. Today, less than 5% of the estimated total number of required commercial outlets meet the premise distribution needs of the information age, while essentially no residence is information age ready.
This lack of adequate premise distribution presents a unique marketing opportunity for suppliers of cable and equipment to both commercial and residential premises.
The report evaluates UTP and coaxial cable, glass and plastic optical fiber, and wireless systems as market contenders. The report, founded on users’ requirements, has key sections which:
- Compare the performance and applications of fiber, cable, and wireless systems
- Compare the performance and applications of networking technologies
- Demonstrate the role of electronics to breathe new life into copper systems
- Evaluate key evolving standards and show how the standards process in reality manages the market
- Estimate the total available market in 11 different commercial categories, plus the untapped residential market
- Projects market share for copper, fiber, and wireless
A new premise wiring market is about to explode for schools, libraries and hospitals as a result of the Universal Service Fund made available under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Over $2.5 billion per year will become available for schools, libraries and hospitals to equip their facilities to handle the needs of the information age.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose of the Report
1.2 Scope of the Report
1.3 Methodology
2. User’s Functional Requirements
Defines business and residential users’ functional requirements for:
• Required data, voice and video services,
• Required user availability of terminals which determines outlet density
2.1 Commercial Functional Requirements
2.2 Residential Functional Requirements
3. Premise Technical and Physical Requirements
3.1 Defines the technical performance requirements for commercial and residential premise distribution as well as the physical structure that meets these requirements
3.2 Structured and Modular Systems
3.3 Commercial Vertical Distribution
3.4 Commercial Horizontal Distribution
3.5 Intelligent Buildings
3.6 Residential
— Fixed
— Mobile
4. Media Performance
This section defines the performance and performance limitations of each premise media in terms of:
• Transmitted power levels
• Received signal level
• Cable attenuation and cable length or wireless range
• Noise, crosstalk, RFI, and EMC
• Bandwidth and signal encoding issues
• Safety issues
• Cable configuration
• Installation difficulties and limitations
• Installed cost
• Operational cost factors
4.1 Fiber
4.1.1 Glass Fiber
4.1.2 Plastic Clad Silica
4.1.3 Plastics
— IMMA (low N.A.)
— Refluorinated
4.1.4 New Technologies
— VCSELS
— WDM
— Low Cost Connectors
4.2 Unshielded Twisted Wire (UITP)
4.3 Shielded Twisted Wire (STP)
4.4 Coaxial Cable
4.5 Wireless
4.6 Media Performance
4.7 Cost Comparisons
5. Role of Electronics to Extend Performance
Describes approaches to use electronics to enable the use of lower grade cable, increase bandwidth and capabilities over copper
5.1 Technical issues
5.2 Cost hurdles for electronics
5.3 When electronics is preferable to new cable
5.4 Examples of
5.4.1 Datapoint
5.4.2 Tut Systems
5.4.3 Pinacl
5.4.4 Nortel
6. Network Technologies Performance
Describes and compares several different standardized networking approaches for premise distribution. Their successes in the market are premise distribution drivers. The performance comparison includes services supported, data speeds, and media supported.
6.1 Ethernet
6.2 Fast Ethernet
6.3 Gigabit Ethernet
6.4 Token Ring
6.5 Enhanced Token Ring
6.6 ATM
6.7 FDDI
6.8 HIPPI
6.9 1394 Firewire
6.10 VESA
6.11 Davic
6.12 USB
6.13 ADSL
6.14 ISDN
6.15 CATV
6.16 Network Technology Comparison
7. Regulations and Standards
• How the standards process is changing and how standards manage the market
• The key premise cabling standards, TIA/EIA 568A, 569, and 570
• The effect of the Universal Service Fund on the premise distribution market
7.1 Evolution of the Standards Process
7.2 Standards and Regulations Effecting Premise Distribution
8. The Market
• Who influences the premise distribution market and why users recable
• Key market categories and the total available market in each
• Price trends, market size, and market projections
8.1 Market Structure and Influencers
8.2 User Recabling Drivers
8.3 Commercial and Residential Market Categories
8.4 TAM - Total Available Market
8.5 Current Media Market Share
8.6 Price Trends
8.7 Universal Service Fund
8.8 Market Projections
9. Profiles of Key Players in the Market (partial list)
9.1 CAT 5 and above
9.1.1 Amp
9.1.2 Alcatel
9.1.3 Belden
9.1.4 Lucent
9.1.5 Mohawk
9.1.6 Berk-Tek
9.1.7 Thomas & Betts
9.1.8 Anixter
9.1.9 Madison Cable
9.1.10 Belkin
9.2 Fiber Optic
9.2.1 Siecor
9.2.2 Alcatel
9.2.3 Spectran
9.2.4 Lucent
9.2.5 BICC
9.3 Wireless
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