India Structured Cabling Market Size & Share Analysis - Trends, Drivers, Competitive Landscape, and Forecasts (2025 - 2030)

India Structured Cabling Market Trends & Growth Drivers

Growing Digitization in India Is Biggest Trend in Market

• India is presently undergoing a digital revolution driven by the changing business needs and increasing usage of data for decision making.
• The Indian government is developing 100 smart cities, where the internet of things (IoT) will play a vital role. Moreover, under the Government’s National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) initiative, Bharat Broadband Nigam Limited (BBNL) is assigned to connect 250,000 village panchayats with high-speed broadband.
• The Digital India program and the initiatives to create 100 smart cities are further drivers of the level of digitization in the country.
• At the same time, the need for intelligent buildings is increasing in India, as more companies are working to make their campuses and facilities world class, while saving costs and responding to the government’s smart building initiative.
• Due to the growing need for data transmission systems, particularly in metropolitan areas, the number of telecommunication companies has exploded in recent years.
• Furthermore, under the Union Budget 2023–24, the government allocated USD 11.77 billion (INR 97,579.05 crore) for telecom infrastructure that entails the completion of an optical fiber cable-based network for defense services, rolling out broadband in 2.5 lakh panchayats and improving mobile services, which are also propelling the market growth.
• Structured cabling offers the critical support for high-performance and unified communication systems; hence, the rapid digitization has become a key trend in the structured cabling market for India.

Growing Data Center Network Propelling Market Growth

• The number of structured cabling users, including government agencies, educational bodies, telecommunications companies, financial institutions, retailers and social networking services, are growing in tandem with the rising urbanization rate, thus putting additional strain on the current communication infrastructure.
• With digitization in India, the demand for green and building automation is expected to witness rapid growth in the coming years.
• The growth of the data center market is expected to be driven by the increasing supply and decreasing cost of high-bandwidth internet and introduction of the mission-critical applications of corporate houses, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM), on third-party data centers.
• With the increasing demand for data centers, the need for world-class infrastructure solutions, such as structured cabling, is rising in the country.
• As per the research, more than 21% of the structured cabling business in the country comes from data centers.

Rising Demand for LAN Offers Opportunities to Players

• Modern computer LAN wiring has the concept of structured cabling.
• The demand for LAN services is increasing across the country at a high rate and is also expected to shoot up in the coming years, due to the surging need for connectivity in corporate offices, the rising demand for cloud-based services, and the increasing requirement for network security.
• Similarly, the IT infrastructure of India is growing significantly with the increasing digitalization and rising foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows.
• According to the India Brand Equity Foundation, in 2021, India ranked third worldwide with 608,000 cloud experts across all verticals, including technology, and the computer software and hardware sector in India attracted cumulative FDI inflows worth USD 88.94 billion between April 2000 and June 2022.
• Moreover, the Indian government has allocated an ample amount of budget for IT infrastructure.
• For instance, in the Union Budget 2023–24, the allocation for the IT and telecom sector stood at USD 11.77 billion (INR 97,579.05 crore).
• These factors help set up a robust IT infrastructure in India, which eventually will create huge demand for LAN services.

India Structured Cabling Market Analysis

Product Type Analysis

The largest share in India structured cabling market is held by the copper cables category in 2024. This is buoyed by the increasing replacement of the older cabling infrastructure with structured cabling for better efficiency and reduced bottlenecks in the system.

During the forecast period, the market is expected to register the fastest growth in the demand for fiber components. This growth can be mainly attributed to the increasing need for high signal bandwidth, low signal attenuation, high network security, and reliable networking. Fiber components are the supporting equipment for the connection of fiber cables. These include fiber patch panel ports, fiber outlets, and fiber patch cords.

The product types analyzed are mentioned below:

• Copper Cables (Largest Category)
  • Shielded twisted pair (STP)
  • Foil-screened twisted pair (FTP)
  • Unshielded twisted pair (UTP)
• Fiber Cables
  • Multi-mode (MM) fiber
  • Single-mode (SM) fiber
• Copper Components
  • Cooper outlets
  • Copper patch panel ports
  • Copper patch cords
• Fiber Components (Fastest-Growing Category)
  • Fiber patch panel ports
  • Fiber outlets
  • Fiber patch cords

Wire Category Analysis

Category-6 wires dominate India structured cabling market because Cat6 cables are backward-compatible with Cat3, Cat5, and Cat5e cabling systems It is backward compatible with category 3 and category 5 or 5e cable standards. Category 6 cable features stricter specifications for noise and crosstalk. The cable standard provides performance of up to 250 MHz and is suitable for 1000BASE-T/1000BASE-TX, 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX, and gigabit Ethernet.

During the forecast period, the Cat7 and others category is expected to witness the highest CAGR, owing to the increasing demand for multi-gigabit ethernet, VoIP telephony, and video conferencing. Category 7 is the new standard for Ethernet and other interconnected technologies. The cable is backward compatible with traditional cat5 and cat6 Ethernet and is commonly terminated with GG45 connector. Cat7 cable standard provides 10 gigabit Ethernet over 100 meters of copper cabling.

Below are the wire categories studied in the report:

• Category 5e
• Category 6 (Largest Category)
• Category 6A
• Category 7 and Others (Fastest-Growing Category)

Application Analysis

The LAN category contributes the higher revenue, of USD 559.5 million, to the global structured cabling market in 2024. LAN offers the, advantages of better speed, lower latency, and more reliable connections.

During the forecast period, the data center category is predicted to grow at the higher rate in India structured cabling market, under the application segment. Some of the primary factors driving the demand for data centers in the country are the increasing internet penetration, government rules for the safety of the data generated in the country, and increased investment by foreign firms. All these factors lead to a high demand for structured cabling as such infrastructure is vital for data centers.

We have considered the below-mentioned applications:

• Data Center (Faster-Growing Category)
• Local Area Network (LAN) (Larger Category)

End User Analysis

In India, structured cabling witnesses the highest demand in the telecommunication industry. This is attributed to government initiatives such as the National Telecom Policy 2018, which was designed to attract investments worth USD 100 billion by 2023. Additionally, the initiative focuses on digitally connecting the rural and remote regions of the country. Such initiatives will propel India structured cabling market growth by driving the laying of structured cables.

The offices category is expected to exhibit the highest CAGR during the forecast period, owing to the surging construction of corporate parks and the renovation and modernization of existing office spaces. In offices, structured cabling is used to provide structured voice and data networking to reduce noise, crosstalk, poor voice quality, print job failures, and bottlenecks, and increase data transmission rate.

Here are the end users part of the research scope:

• Telecommunications (Largest Category)
• Airports
• Malls
• Offices (Fastest-Growing Category)
• IT Parks
• Hotels
• Hospitals
• Railway Stations
• Government
• Industrial
• Others

Regional Analysis

Regionally, South India accounts for the largest share in the structured cabling market for India in 2020 owing to the presence of IT hubs in Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad.

The structured cabling market in the eastern region of India is expected to grow at the highest rate during forecast period. This can be attributed to the development of IT hubs in Bhubaneswar and Tripura and government initiatives to increase connectivity in the eastern states. Moreover, the rising number of smart city projects in cities like Patna, Muzaffarpur, Newtown, Guwahati, Imphal, Agartala, Kohima, Aizawl, Pasighat, Itanagar, Gangtok, and Namchi will drive the structured cabling market in East India.

The report offers insights into the following regions in India:

• Northern
• Southern (Largest Regional Market)
• Eastern (Fastest-Growing Category)
• Western

India Structured Cabling Market Share

The Indian structured cabling market is consolidated, with the level of consolidation increasing every year. This is because the major players are developing new products and acquiring similar companies in response to the rising demand for data centers and increasing investment in them. Additionally, the high entry barriers on account of the requirement for high capital and technical expertise allow the established players to hold major shares. The requirement for technical expertise stems from the need to comply with national and international telecommunications and data transfer protocols. Moreover, the major companies have strong marketing and sales capabilities and enjoy brand loyalty among large-scale end users.

India Structured Cabling Market News

• In November 2024, Sterlite Technologies Limited announced that it has won the J&K leg of the BharatNet III project for optical fiber laying, in collaboration with Dilip Buildcon Limited. This INR 2,600-crore project envisages extending broadband connectivity to villages across Jammu and Kashmir.
• In October 2024, CommScope Holding Company Inc. launched the GigaSHIELD platform, an improvement of its SYSTIMAX 2.0 portfolio VisiPORT and imVision solutions. The platform includes F/UTP, S/FTP, and F/FTP cables, MGS600S jacks, MiNo shielded patch cords, preloaded panels, and InstaPATCH integration.’
• In August 2024, Panduit Corp. announced the increase in its capacity to manufacture connectivity and fiber products at numerous plants around the world.
• In May 2024, Schneider Electric SE inaugurated a new office campus in Schneider Electric SE. The 630,000-square-foot campus houses its global innovation hub, R&D center, training center, digital hub, and skill center and accommodates more than 8,000 employees.