New CIR Report States That The Telecom/Datacom Laser Market Will Reach $ 2.9 Billion
September 24, 2007
Glen Allen, Virginia: Sales of telecom and datacom lasers will grow from around $1.0 this year to $2.9 billion in 2012, according to a new report just published by CIR, a market research firm based here. For additional information about the report please visit the CIR website. Members of the press may request an executive summary.
About the Report:
According to CIR, the market growth spurt is due to several factors namely: optics is relentlessly pushing copper out of the network, 10 GigE is the first Ethernet that is predominantly optical, FTTx is bringing optics to the residential access network for the first time, optics is replacing cumbersome copper Infiniband connections and the transition from copper to fiber in storage networks is now all but complete. All of these trends create markets for lasers that have simply not existed before.
Other Key Points:
Tunable laser use to accelerate. Recent financing rounds for Santur and Syntune validate the tunable laser segment, a market that CIR expects to reach $870 million by 2012. The cost of tunable lasers is expected to decline as volumes ramp up and new cost effective designs based on DBR lasers and integrated modulators make their impact felt.
Silicon photonics could mean the death of multi-mode fiber (MMF). The first products of silicon photonics -- optically active cables aimed at the unwieldy Infiniband infrastructure will bring credibility to silicon photonics. Silicon photonics promises long-wavelength transceivers for the same cost as 850 nm optics. Indeed, CIR believes that silicon photonics could be the single most important technology and could gradually push short-wave optics and MMF into niche oblivion.
Parallelism, the way of the future. Parallelism may be the optics of the future. It will dominate short-reach computing center interconnects and eventually LX4 type transponders for 100 GigE markets. Several firms are now implementing large array type products including Avago, IBM, Infinera and Luxtera. CIRs report suggests that by as early as 2012 more than 3.4 million lasers will be used to support connections at 100 Gbps and over, with most of this bandwidth being supplied through parallel schemes.
About the Report:
CIR's new report analyzes and quantifies all of the key market opportunities for telecom and datacom laser products. It covers both tunable and fixed lasers including VCSELs, DFBs, FCs and ECLs and focuses especially on showing how integrated optics and silicon photonics are on the verge of creating major new revenue streams for laser makers. This is also the first CIR report to quantify the impact of the next generation of parallel optics and 100 Gbps networks. The report contains detailed volume and value forecasts and also discusses the activities of the leading players in the worldwide communications laser market.
Companies mentioned in the report include Aeluros, AFOP, AOC Technologies, Avago, Avanex, BinOptics, Bookham, Broadcom, ColorChip, CyOptics, Delta Electronics, Eblana, Emcore, Enablence, Fiberxon, Finisar, Fujitsu, Harmonic, IBM, Ignis, Infinera, Intel, JDSU, Kotura, LightComm, Lightron, LuminentOIC, Luxtera, MergeOptics, NEC, Neophotonics, Novera, NTT, Opnext, Pirelli, Optoway, Optronics, Santur, Sigma-Links, Sumitomo/Excelight, Syntune, Titan Photonics, Tyco Electronics, Vitesse Semiconductor and Zarlink.
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 "dot"com
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