Watch the Cable Market Grow and Transform through the Adversity of Changing Times

The cable market has experienced rapid growth through the late 90’s through the 2000’s. During this period there have been stages of decline that eventually stabilized. The structured cable industry has been shaped by evolving standards, growth, and new technology. Over the past two decades market developments will continue to progress thus including wireless technology, fiber, and competing solutions as a vital part of determining how structured cable will shape the future.

The Future of Structured Cable Systems

• Wireless technology aids customers in powering, securing and networking their buildings with intelligence, efficiency, and speed.
• The future of structured cable systems is being built around the way buildings are structured, maintained, and renovated in conjunction with their requirements for communications infrastructures.
• The structured cable market has gone through vast changes over the past twenty years.

Facts and Statistics Involving Cable Marketing Systems

• Almost 90% of commercial users utilize copper cables as their key preference to distribute data.
• Since 2006 copper cabling has shown a decline in use.
• WLAN connections require less copper cables, and have tripled over the past five years. This type of connection makes up 80% of the installed Ethernet base.
• Fiber may provide a superior transmission speed; however it only reaches 5% penetration in the horizontal market.
• Per a comprehensive market study by General Cable in 2013, the future of structured cable is stable and strong.
• The overall growth of the economy is a large factor of the success of the cable market, with data needs increasing while costs are decreasing.
• Copper continues to provide the speeds and bandwidths using Category 6 or higher grade cable, that most data users utilize today.

Get with the Flow: The Future of Cable Marketing Systems

• With the development of end user devices that are more advanced there is also more demand for additional wireless bandwidth.
• As end user trends grow and shift, by 2016-2017 more data will be used via mobile connections verses hardwired.
• Due to data capabilities for hardwired solutions, copper will continue to be a viable solution.
• Security concerns will dampen the further use of wireless conversions.
• Wireless growth will only cause a 3% per year downward shift for category cables.
• The power over Ethernet, POE, is expected to increase due to further penetration of technologies such as IP Surveillance and VOIP, as well as growth within newer categories.