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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 June 2006
Networking drives optical components
market
The market for optical components used in telecomms and datacomms networks is predicted to grow from US $1.5 billion this year to over $6.6 billion in 2011.
A new report from CIR predicts that the market for optical components used in telecomms and datacomms networks will grow from US $1.5 billion this year to over $6.6 billion in 2011 The report "Optical components: the next wave" is the next in CIR's ongoing report series that analyses and forecasts market opportunities in optical components
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This big surge in growth is due to the rapid penetration of fibre into enterprise and access networks needed to support PONs, Fibre Channel, CWDM and 10 GigE and the larger bandwidth applications riding over them.
Tunable laser shipments are now being measured annually in the tens of thousands.
Many equipment company and service provider RFPs also require them.
Though there are just a handful of tunable laser firms left in the business including Intel, JDSU, Santur and Syntune, these companies actually have a market to chase after.
CIR expects sales of tunable lasers and transmitters to exceed $460 million by 2011.
CIR believes that firms such as JDSU, Metconnex, Optium, Optoplex, and Xtellus, that have developed ROADMs over the past few years, will finally see a payoff, as the ROADM market reaches almost $300 million by 2011.
40Gbit/s networks are becoming a reality and may well be necessary for new video services on which many service providers are focusing.
At the components level, 40Gbit/s will increasingly represent an opportunity for those firms that can provide innovative ways of meeting the chromatic dispersion, PMD and spectral efficiency challenges inherent in 40Gbit/s networking.
CIR research indicates that the quality of products coming out of China and other low labor cost countries is often not good enough for high-end telecomms/datacomms products.
It is possible that the movement towards Chinese manufacturing may be over.
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