CIR Releases New Report on Communications Laser Markets: Sees Return to Growth
September 3, 2009
Glen Allen, Virginia: The market for communications lasers will grow to approximately $1.1 billion in revenues by 2014, according to a just released report from CIR, an industry analyst firm based here. CIR's analysis indicates that infrastructure upgrades by carriers combined with emerging applications in consumer applications and personal computing will offer good prospects for the communications laser firms as the worldwide recession abates. Additional details about the report can be found at www.cir-inc.com.
Key findings from the report:
Passive Optical Networks (PONs) will be the fastest growing market for lasers over the next five years; PONs have survived relatively unscathed by the recession because carriers see the technology as a way to reduce provisioning costs in the access space. In addition to the FP and DFB lasers that currently dominate the PON space, more VCSELs are expected to be sold for next-generation PON designs that will soon start to be deployed. Revenues from PON lasers will reach $213 million by 2014, more than double those for 2009.
Public carriers continue to replace their core SONET/SDH transport networks with WDM. As a result WDM lasers and pumps are expected to account for almost 40 percent of the entire communications laser market during the 2009 to 2014 period. Tunable WDM lasers in particular are expected to reach $225 million in sales by 2014 making tunable the largest revenue generators among all the various types of communications laser.
Driven by the rise of digital video, Optical interfaces for consumer electronics and personal computing may be the next big opportunity for the laser industry. Already, the next generation of the USB interface will include a high-speed optical option and Intel and others are pushing the concept of an active optical cabling solution for both PCs and displays. CIR believes that in 2014 the annual addressable market for lasers in these segments could run to at least 0.5 billion units.
Optical integration is now almost ubiquitously viewed by laser makers as the way to lower costs, smaller devices and lower power consumption. It also offers a way for optical chip designers to create lasers that are distinguished in the market place by features that can command higher prices. CIR believes that by about 2015 there will be the potential to create about 200 devices on a single chip.
About the Report:
The new report provides CIR's latest forecasts of communications lasers for the years 2009 to 2014. Detailed five-year forecasts are provided with breakouts by laser type (FP, DFB, EMLs, VCSELs, tunable and pump) and application (WDM, SONET/SDH, PONs, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and parallel optics.) The report also contains strategic assessments of emerging markets for lasers such as chip-to-chip communications and optical interfaces/cabling for consumer electronics, as well as of newer laser types such as quantum dot lasers and silicon lasers. 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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