CIR Announces Release of WDM and SONET/SDH Transceivers and Transponders Market Numbers
August 13, 2009
Glen Allen, Virginia: According to newly released forecasts from CIR, an industry analyst firm based here, the market for telecom transceiver and transponder modules using SONET or WDM technology will reach just under $1.1 billion by 2014 as the move from TDM to WDM technology accelerates. The numbers are from a soon-to-be released report titled, Telecommunications Transceiver/Transponder Markets: 2009-2013. Additional details about the new report can be found at www.cir-inc.com.
CIR has also recently published a separate report that analyzes the market for transceivers in data communications.
Findings Include:
By 2012, WDM transceivers/transponders will have overtaken sales of SONET/SDH transceivers/transponders in volume terms. And by 2014, the market for WDM modules will have reached more than $770 million in revenues as carriers make the shift to a WDM-based transport infrastructure in order to support new high bandwidth services and their promised 100 Gbps backbones. The sophisticated encapsulation and OA&M procedures provided by the ITU's OTN architecture will, in part, make this possible.
ROADM deployment is also creating larger addressable markets for WDM modules. After years of merely being talked about, these WDM boxes are now being deployed much more widely and finally allowing operators to capitalize on their ability to provide greater flexibility of network design, integration of SDH and OTN, fast service activation and high bandwidth efficiency.
SONET/SDH sales are expected to decline in aggregate, but there will still be opportunities for transceivers/transponders in the OC-192 space which expected to reach around $240 million by 2014. Since many of these opportunities will be found in the cost-sensitive access space, CIR believes that the key to success in OC-192 will be the use of smaller MSAs and lower power consumption.
About the Report:
The new report provides the firm's latest forecasts of transceivers and transponders for the public networking environment for the years 2009 to 2014. Detailed volume and value forecasts are provided for both WDM and SONET/SDH with breakouts by data rates, MSA, technology platform and network segment as appropriate. The report takes into consideration the changes that have been wrought in the industry by the worldwide economic downturn that began in 2008. The report also profiles and assesses the product/market strategies of key transceiver/transponder providers.
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 numerous reports that have tracked the cutting edge of the communications sector with a special focus on emerging technologies and high bandwidth networking. Our specialty is 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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