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Market Update Report
A decade after the telecom bubble burst and a few quarters after the most recent economic downturn, there is a perception that an industry-wide optical upgrade cycle is starting at last. All segments of the optical networking equipment and components market, including telecom, enterprise, and storage area networks showed clear signs of recovery in 2010. Analysis of publicly reported revenues of equipment vendors combined with confidential sales data of optical components and modules, collected by LightCounting, offer a unique insight into market dynamics, presented in this report.
The report also presents analysis of network bandwidth growth calculated from data on shipments of opto-electronic interface modules employed in telecom, enterprise, and storage area networks. This approach to tracking the market offers an effective method for identifying the timing and scope of infrastructure upgrade cycles, technology transitions, and even product life cycles.
In addition to in-depth market analysis, this report offers summaries of the latest business developments and financial performance for 18 leading equipment manufacturers. It also includes sales data on more than 100 product categories covering the period from Q1 2009 to Q3 2010 for SONET/SDH, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, CWDM, DWDM, and FTTx transceivers, parallel modules, and active optical cables. It also discusses guidance for 2011 and potential changes to LightCounting‘s market forecast published in September 2010. Data for the report was provided by more than 25 leading module and component vendors.
