Value of worldwide market for Fiber and Copper Datacomm Building Cabling is projected to reach $18.0 billion by 2008.

The worldwide market for Fiber and Copper Datacomm Building Cabling is projected to grow from $8.3 billion in 2003, at a growth rate of 16.8% per year, to $18.0 billion by 2008. This includes both the cable media and the apparatus devices. This also includes both copper (UTP, STP & FTP) and fiber products.

(PRWEB) January 11, 2004 --Research and Markets announces the addition of the 2003 report on the Fiber and Copper Datacomm Building Cabling Worldwide Market to its offerings.

The worldwide market for Fiber and Copper Datacomm Building Cabling is projected to grow from $8.3 billion in 2003, at a growth rate of 16.8% per year, to $18.0 billion by 2008. This includes both the cable media and the apparatus devices. This also includes both copper (UTP, STP & FTP) and fiber products. There are two driving forces for this growth. Firstly, New broadband applications emerging in the mature markets will need new technology fiber cabling, including replacement of existing copper cabling in many instances.Secondly, The less mature markets, such as China, for example, are still relatively unpenetrated needing to install their initial LANs with inexpensive copper cabling.

This exciting new report provides worldwide market forecasts for each major product category by five regional geographic segments - Americas, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia/Pacific and the Rest of World (ROW). Regional analysis includes recent economic data and major country cabling trends/issues (e.g. the U S, Japan, China).

Forecasts are provided for the four major product categories of Fiber cable, Fiber apparatus, Copper cable and Copper apparatus.

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