The World Telecom Market for Connectors provides a new, in‐depth analysis of the world telecommunications and data communications market for connectors from 2010 to 2015. The 257 page report is organized around the six major market segments which include enterprise network equipment, wireless infrastructure equipment, wireless subscriber equipment, wireline carrier equipment, cable/MSO equipment and other telecom equipment.

For each market segment, the strategic implications of economics, competition, industry consolidation, convergence and technology advances are examined with respect to their impact on the evolving architectures, corresponding evolution of the equipment design and connectors.

For each major market segment, the subset of equipment is identified by equipment type and is characterized by where the equipment resides in the evolutionary process (legacy, transitional or next generation) and, key packaging and interconnection characteristics/trends. Five-year connector sales are identified by connector type for each subset of equipment.

The following are some key points from the Executive Summary:

From 2009, the market grew 21.2% in 2010 to a connector value of nearly $7.4 billion.

The single largest influence on the telecom/datacom market is the Internet.  From 2000 to 2010, worldwide Internet usage increased from 361,000 users to 1,966,515,000. 

In 2000, the global IP traffic equaled 95.5 Petabytes per month, an average of 0.26 Gigabytes per user.  In 2010, this traffic has increased to 21,380 Petabytes per month, an average of 10.9 Gigabytes per user.

The second largest factor influencing the telecom/datacom market is hand-held wireless devices including cell phones, smartphones, and broadband devices.  In 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union, there was 5.3 billion mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide.  That is approximately 76% of the world population.

These two factors are driving the growth of the telecom/datacom market, particularly wireless infrastructure equipment.

The following is an example of the types of tables found in the Executive Summary and body of the report.  All the tables cover the period of 2010 to 2015. 

 Major tables included in the Executive Summary include:

• Connector Sales by Equipment Category
• Connector Sales as a Percent of Total Market by Equipment Category
• Connector Sales by Combined Equipment Category
• Connector Sales by Equipment Category Year‐To‐Year Change in Sales
• Connector Sales by Region of the World
• Connector Sales Share of Market by Region of the World
• Connector Sales by Connector Type
• Enterprise Network Equipment Connector Sales by Equipment Category
• Enterprise Network Equipment Connector Sales by Region of the World
• Enterprise Network Equipment Connector Sales by Connector Type
• Wireless Infrastructure Equipment Connector Sales by Equipment Category
• Wireless Infrastructure Equipment Connector Sales by Region of the World
• Wireless Infrastructure Equipment Connector Sales by Connector Type
• Wireless Subscriber Equipment Connector Sales by Equipment Category
• Wireless Subscriber Equipment Connector Sales by Region of the World
• Wireless Subscriber Equipment Connector Sales by Connector Type
• Wireline Carrier Equipment Connector Sales by Equipment Category
• Wireline Carrier Equipment Connector Sales by Region of the World
• Wireline Carrier Equipment Connector Sales by Connector Type
• Cable/MSO Equipment Connector Sales by Equipment Category
• Cable/MSO Equipment Connector Sales by Region of the World
• Cable/MSO Equipment Connector Sales by Connector Type
• Other Network Equipment Connector Sales by Equipment Category
• Other Network Equipment Connector Sales by Region of the World
• Other Network Equipment Connector Sales by Connector Type

Each of the six market segments chapters are broken down by region, by subset of equipment (see Table of Contents), and by connector type.