The telecom equipment vendors’ trio, comprising of 2Wire, Huawei and Thomson, seized the larger market share of the broadband customer premise equipment (CPE) space, revealed a study from In-Stat.

Titled- ‘Global Digital Domicile CPE Market Shares’, the study defined broadband CPE with cable and DSL modems, routers, Wi-Fi aggregators, and residential gateways.

While 2Wire grabbed six percent of the market share in the worldwide residential gateway market, it stood second in the home Wi-Fi aggregator segment (taking over the position from Netgear), which converges total broadband routers and gateways.

The Chinese vendor Huawei made mark in the worldwide DSL Modem Market, where it gained over ten percentage points. The company displayed a growth rate of over 68 percent, as against the market-wide growth of less than two percent.

However, Thomson emerged as an all rounder, with a strong performance demonstrated across all the segments that it was part of. It claimed descent market share gains in the total and EMTA cable modems, Wi-Fi aggregators, and residential gateway segments, and took away the No.1 position in the residential gateway market.

Other notable findings include the drop in the annual growth of residential gateway shipments in 2008 to only 0.5 percent, down from 2007’s growth rate of nearly 32 percent.

Besides, the unit shipments of cable modems with an embedded multimedia terminal adapter also saw a fall to 15.2 million units in 2008.