New CIR Report Says Optical Components Market Will Approach $8.0 Billion by 2012
March 20, 2007
Glen Allen, Virginia: The market for optical
networking components will grow from approximately
$2.8 billion in 2007 to $7.9 billion in 2012, according
to newly released forecasts from CIR, a leading
industry analyst firm based here. The forecasts will
be available as part of CIRs new report on optical
components that will be released after OFC 2007.
Details about the report are available at www.cir-inc.com.
Members of the press may request an executive
summary of the report.
Key Findings:
According to CIR, the optical components business
will experience a significant ramp up in revenues over
the next few years due to:
The expansion of optically addressable
markets. Bringing optics closer to the customer
is enabling volume opportunities for components
manufacturers that simply have not existed in the
past. Optical solutions are in some cases, the only
means available to building cost effective, high
bandwidth access and enterprise networks.
The accelerating use of 10 GigE in corporate
networks and data centers. The report notes that
10 Gigabit Ethernet deployments will be largely
optical, whereas previous Ethernet versions have
been dominated by copper media. CIR projects the
value of lasers used in Ethernet networks to grow to
$1.2 billion by 2012 from just over $300 million this
year.
PONs are becoming the technology of choice
for residential access networks. CIR expects
more large carriers to adopt ambitious PON
deployment strategies in the next few years. As a
result, the firm believes that the market for PON lasers
and detectors will exceed $800 million by 2012 and
the value of PON splitters will almost double to around
$450 million in that same time period.
More WDM. Carriers are increasingly
adopting agile WDM technology in their core transport
networks. CIR expects that this will cause a rapid
expansion of demand for ROADMs, WDM filters and
tunable lasers. According to CIRs estimates, tunable
lasers will be the fastest growing major segment of
the components market, reaching almost one billion
dollars by 2012.
CIR believes that these factors will create a min-boom
in the optical components market over the next three
years, but the market will then settle down to a very
healthy 15 percent annual growth.
About the Report:
CIR's new optical components report analyzes and
quantifies all of the key market opportunities in the
optical components business over the next five years.
It also addresses issues that will impact 40 Gbps and
100 Gbps networking and the renaissance of optical
integration. Detailed volume and value forecasts are
provided of fixed and tunable lasers and transmitters,
detectors and receivers, modulators, amplifiers, filters
and waveguides, splitters, optical switches, ROADMs
and dispersion compensation products. For each of
these areas the report provides granular market
projections, by network and product type. The report
also provides an analysis of current strategies being
adopted by key players in the optical components
space. The report will be essential reading for anyone
assessing the opportunities in this reemerging
market.
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@cir-inc.com
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