FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

WORLDWIDE STRUCTURED CABLING SYSTEMS (SCS) MARKET TO GROW TO $29.1 BILLION IN FIVE YEARS

HUMMELSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 25, 2008
Frank Murawski, President of FTM Consulting, Inc., announced the publication of its latest market research study.

The study, “
Worldwide Structured Cabling Systems (SCS) Market,” projects that the worldwide SCS market will grow from $15.3 billion in 2008, at a compound annual growth rate of 13.7%, to$29.1 billion by 2013. The study examines five major geographic regions of the world. The attached figure shows the market growth by these five regions.

By far, the largest market is the Americas led by the U.S. market. This growth in the U.S. market is expected to be fostered by the addition of new IP subnets to the enterprise’s existing core networks. Frank Murawski, President of FTM Consulting stated, “During the next five years we expect to see the U.S. SCS market deploying enormous amounts of copper cabling to support VOIP applications. In the same way, the SCS market grew in the 1990s, as each PC in a building needed to be connected to a network, we see the need to connect each individual VOIP telephone to the existing network.”

On a global basis, the study’s findings indicate that growth in fiber cabling will surpass growth in copper cabling during the next five years. In 2008, fiber cabling accounted for 52.7% of the total global SCS market. By 2013, it is expected that fiber cabling will account for 60.1% of the total global market.

The study, “
Worldwide Structured Cabling Systems (SCS) Market,” provides detailed market forecasts in 105 tables. Additional information on this study can be found at www.ftmconsultinginc.com.