New CIR Report Projects That The Dispersion Compensation Market Will Reach $755 Million by 2012
August 23, 2007
Glen Allen, VA: The move to higher data rates is transforming dispersion compensation technology from a niche market to a substantial business, according to a new report from CIR, an industry analyst firm based here. The report predicts worldwide sales of dispersion products will reach $755 million by 2012. For additional information please visit here. Members of the press may request an executive summary.
Findings of the report include:
Tunable dispersion compensation finding acceptance. Tunable "set and forget" dynamic compensation technologies using fiber Bragg gratings, etalons and other technologies are providing a more flexible alternative to fixed dispersion compensation modules (DCMs.) They are finding favor with carriers because they can address PMD variations during transmission and are seen as essential to future long-haul and metro deployments of OC-768 technology. The market for tunable dispersion compensation products is expected to reach $245 million by 2012
DCF and DCMs will still dominate market. Despite the rise of tunable compensators, no carriers will abandon DCMs, which are widely viewed as complementary to tunable products. Indeed, traditional DCMs continue to be a subject of intense research with new technologies such as photonic crystal fibers being considered to improve their performance. Revenues of $260 million are expected from DCMs in 2012.
LRM creating market for EDC. The IEEE's new LRM standard uses electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) to carry 10 GigE over legacy fiber. CIR believes that LRM will ultimately generate demand for millions of EDC chips every year and notes that it is opening up the dispersion compensation market to an entirely new group of players - the chip makers. EDC chips for LRM are expected to generate $240 million in revenues by 2012.
About the Report:
CIR's new report analyzes and quantifies all of the key market opportunities for dispersion compensation products. It covers fixed and tunable optical products as well as electronic dispersion products and analyzes the role that these technologies will play in SONET/SDH, WDM and Ethernet networks. The role of new technologies is discussed and detailed volume and value forecasts are provided by technology and data rate. The report also discusses the activities of the leading players in the worldwide dispersion compensation market. Companies mentioned in the report include Aeluros, AMCC, ANDevices, Avago, Avanex, Bookham, Broadcom, BTI, Civcom, Coreoptics, Discovery Semi, Dowslake Micro, Fiberxon, Finisar, Fujitsu, Gemfire, Infinera, Intel, JDSU, Mintera, Mitsubishi, OFS, Opnext, Optium, Phyworks, Prima Luci, Proximion, Redfern, Santur, Scintera, StockerYale, Sumitomo/Excelight, TeraXion and Vitesse.
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
info(at)cir-inc.com
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