Optical Telecom & Datacom Components Market to Expand to $6.6 billion by 2011
June 14, 2006
To: All Media
Charlottesville, Virginia: According to a new report from CIR, a market research firm based here, the market for optical components used in telecom and datacom networks is expected to grow from $1.5 billion ($ US) this year to over $6.6 billion ($ US) in 2011. The report, "Optical Components: The Next Wave" is the next in CIRs ongoing report series that analyzes and forecasts market opportunities in optical components. Additional information including a table of contents and summary can be found on the firms website here. Members of the press may request a full executive summary from the report.
Highlights from the report:
Fiberization matters. With the continued build out of more advanced and higher capacity networks, the active components market will
grow from just under $1 billion in 2006 to almost $4.8 billion in 2011. This big surge in growth is due to the rapid penetration of fiber into
enterprise and access networks needed to support PONs, Fibre Channel, CWDM and 10 GigE and the larger bandwidth applications riding over them.
Tunable lasers requested and required. Tunable laser shipments are now being measured annually in the tens of thousands. Many equipment company and service provider RFPs also require them. Though there are just a handful of tunable laser firms left in the business including Intel, JDSU, Santur and Syntune, these companies actually have a market to chase after. CIR expects sales of tunable lasers and transmitters to exceed $460 million by 2011.
At long last, ROADMs. CIR believes that firms such as JDSU, Metconnex, Optium, Optoplex, and Xtellus, that have developed ROADMs over the past few years, will finally see a payoff, as the ROADM market reaches almost $300 million by 2011.
40 Gbps beyond the R&D lab. 40 Gbps networks are becoming a reality and may well be necessary for new video services on which many service providers are focusing. At the components level, 40 Gbps will increasingly represent an opportunity for those firms that can provide innovative ways of meeting the chromatic dispersion, PMD and spectral efficiency challenges inherent in 40 Gbps networking.
Beyond China. CIR research indicates that the quality of products coming out of China and other low labor cost countries is
often not good enough for high-end telecom/datacom products. It is possible that the movement towards Chinese manufacturing may be over.
About The Report:
CIRs report, Optical Components, The Next Wave analyzes the current issues and market opportunities for optical component suppliers. It provides highly detailed forecasts of component market segments broken out by units and dollars and illustrates how and where the industry will find new sources of revenues. The report provides market commentary of key components suppliers as well and discusses key business and technology developments that are driving the market. Coverage includes the lasers, detectors, filters, amplifiers, modulators, splitters, OADMs, DCUs, and switches used in Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, WDM and PON networks.
About CIR:
CIR provides detailed market analysis and forecasting of the trends, technologies and opportunities in the telecom and data communications components and modules market. Since it entered the market in 1979,
CIR has produced dozens of reports that have tracked the cutting edge of the communications sector with a special focus on emerging technologies and high bandwidth networking. Our focus is on supplying our customers with the most comprehensive and detailed market data available in the sectors that we follow.
Contact:
Robert Nolan
CIR
(804) 360-2967
rln "at" cir-inc.com
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