subject: Optical Communication Equipment Market: Uncertainty Increases [print this page] Changing over in 2008, full of mist and unknown to him in 2009, 2008, Global Optical Communication Industry has withstood the impact of economic conditions, continued growth momentum, although this growth momentum can continue into 2009, we do not know, do not want to make improper comments, here we only summarize some of the industry statistics and forecasts hope to provide readers with some useful information.
Optical equipment market: Overall growth but a drop in individual markets
According to Infonetics the first three quarters of results, our preliminary forecast 2008 worldwide optical network hardware market value of 150 billion dollars, compared to last year's 13.9 billion U.S. dollars, there is still no small increase.
Last year, is hot and packet optical WDM equipment Transmission equipment , Infonetics forecasts worldwide sales of WDM optical equipment, 23% higher than last year, in the overall optical hardware market share in more than 50%, while the operators were hoping to enhance the bandwidth of WDM technology to increase network capacity and speed of impact, SONET / SDH equipment market will continue to shrink.
Also in 2008 packet optical transport systems (POT-S) market is developing rapidly, Infonetics forecasts the global POT-S equipment manufacturer revenue until at least 2011, will remain strong double-digit growth. "From now, the global economic downturn to the optical network hardware market impact may be minimal, because consumers and business users has been increasing demand for bandwidth, including video applications, mobile traffic, games and other bandwidth-intensive applications are growing. driven by the flow pressure, service providers will continue to build IP works to increase investment in optical equipment, optical network hardware market, but eventually the growth will be slowed down. "
In 2009, we believe that the global optical network hardware market growth will be affected by the economic environment have been checked, although this effect was relatively small for other industries, but it does not mean little effect . The largest optical network market?? North American market has been a drop in the second quarter of last year, this trend is difficult to change in a short time, North America and Europe are expected to step footsteps?? Unless there are major policy changes, such as the consequences of Obama taking office as it campaign talking about: great efforts to build broadband networks, or short-term down trend is inevitable.
Optical components market: Considerable growth Comprehensive research firm Ovum and LightCounting statistics released in 2008 compared to same period last year had Cuba device market, there is not a small increase, especially in the first half are double-digit growth, multiple consecutive quarterly revenue over one billion U.S. dollars , annual revenue is expected to more than 4.5 billion U.S. dollars, up 10% over 2007. "Optical Devices industry plagued 2007, the inventory problem was finally stabilized in 2008," Ovum is responsible for Communicate Devices DarylInniss vice president, said, "We see the market that can support flexible network operations, bandwidth expansion, and lower total cost of new transmission product demand has been strong. Service provider in the emerging competitive services will continue to affect the light device market value and development. "
Through the investigation, Ovum found that those who support 10Gbits/sec, 40Gbits/sec and ROADM devices and modules is the most popular market is the fastest growing products. Which JDSU's ROADM business growth, and soon Optium, Opnext 40G transponders by winning, Bookham tunable lasers and transponders performance eye-catching. The 1-8Gbit/secLAN/SAN Finisar Transceiver Module transceiver module and 10G/40G contributed.
Last year, the top ten global supplier of optical components ranked the significant changes is a result of a number of large merger and acquisition activity occurred, and the rise of China's optical components business.
Optical Communication Equipment Market: Uncertainty Increases
