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Platform The high-tech research firm reports that despite the fact that the early market for gateways has been undercut by low-cost home routers that meet the needs of most consumers, the market for more advanced gateways will materialize as the router/bridge and modem are integrated into one device and more advanced service features are incorporated over time. Additionally, the incorporation of caching capabilities into entertainment gateways will create a gateway/home server category that opens up exciting content-delivery options for carriers and consumers alike. The increased use of broadband, combined with the development of new and interesting ways to interconnect devices in the home, has put the residential gateway on the map of nearly every vendor in the modem, router, set-top-box, CPE silicon, and consumer-software spaces. While challenges lie ahead, such as the management of these more intelligent devices and the need to create compelling content and logical business models that leverage the opportunities home networks provide, we believe that over time the service provider will overcome the current capital expenditure constraints inhibiting this market and move to a predominantly residential gateway-based customer-termination strategy. In-Stat/MDR has also found that: North America will be the largest gateway market throughout the forecast
but will see its overall percentage share of units shipped shrink as
other geographies see faster overall broadband growth and, eventually,
increased deployment of advanced CPE in the form of gateways.
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