Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Network Storage to Be Fastest Growing Core Home Networking Category
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The home networking market is entering a phase of slowing growth. Many consumers have already purchased a home networking device, and other factors include continued pricing pressure and a lack of strong demand from consumers wishing to upgrade to newer technologies. One category, however, that will see continued growth through the next five years will be network storage, which ABI Research calculates at something under $400 million worldwide today but growing to just over $1.4 billion worldwide by 2013.
“ABI Research believes that network storage will see more consumer pull-based demand in coming years, though we never expect consumer network storage to see the same type of overall market demand as we’ve seen in the home router and gateway market,” says research director Michael Wolf. “That being said, we think overall adoption of consumer network storage will grow significantly from the 10% of home network owners today who use network attached storage.”
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