An ABI Research study on residential gateways forecasts home networking consumer premises equipment and aggregation devices will deliver at least $1.8 billion in annual revenues by the end of 2013.
A separate, second ABI study says shipments of four classes of wireless audio and video connectivity products for the home (150 million this year) will increase to nearly 700 million units worldwide by the end of 2013.
Bluetooth, WiFi, UWB and 60GHz (for in-home wireless distribution of HD video.) will coexist and become closely integrated according to their strengths and specialties. Analysts say once UWB begins to hit its stride around 2010, it will show the highest Y-to-Y growth rate of any of the four technologies.
Not everything is going up: a third study says global market for set-top boxes (still growing gradually over the next few years) will peak at around 110 million shipments in 2012. Then STB unit volumes for all platforms – DTT, IPTV, DBS, and CATV will begin a gradual decline.
Not all bad news: ABI says revenues for all STB platforms but should recover by 2010 and remain stable through 2013.
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