India growing in cabling market

BANGALORE, INDIA: India is the fastest growing market in the data center structured cabling market with compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 per cent according to a research survey conducted across 45 countries by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners research commissioned by SYSTIMAX solutions.

Disclosing the outcome of the research at a media briefing today, Dr Ispran Kandasamy, vice president and managing director of Asia Pacific, SYSTIMAX, said that the trend is projected to continue over the next several years. If happens so, India would up chair China in another ten years.

“Multiple terabytes of data are moved and stored on enterprise servers in data centers. Keeping ahead on access capability and storage capacity is a daunting task for data center managers. This challenge presents a great opportunity for the region’s data center structured cabling support businesses,” Kandasamy added.

According to AMI research study the structured cabling market in Asia pacific should hit $1.53 billion by 2010 with CAGR of 11 per cent from 2005 to 2010. Out of this market share 68 per cent is made up of residential and enterprise structural cabling, while the reminder will come from the date center market, which constitutes 13.8 per cent. Data center market is expected to contribute 32 per cent by 2010.

“The three key sectors namely financial firms, transportation and Information Media sectors are the driving force for Structural cabling business and IT stands at lower level where as former sectors comprises 80 per cent of the Market share” said Raju Chellem, vice president, AMI Partners, Asia pacific.

“Due to lack of proper cable infrastructure, sectors like banking and transportation are incurring $ 4.3 million loss annually,” he added.

“As technology changes adequate infrastructure should stand to it supportively. Technology forces infrastructure where it should go. Here there is no gulf for differentiating small and medium enterprises and big enterprises, as security is the basic concern of the companies,” opined Dr TC Tan, member of technical staff, SYSTIMAX solutions R&D.