|
|
Home > Communications > Public Switching > Broadband
Free-Space Optics (FSO) The Worldwide Industry & Market Opportunities with Forecasts to 2012
|
| Published Date:
May 2006
Published By:
Engalco
Page Count:
94
Order Code:
R526-10
|
|
|
|
Currently available at a discount of 20% off the full price of $2,995 for the pdf, $2,995 for CD-rom, $3,370 for CD-rom plus 1 Hard Copy and $5,092 for GSL.
This is Engalco's first market report to be released on FSO and our second analysis of the industry structure since 2002. The report comprises 66 pages of main text and charts together with two appendices and an Excel file of the associated data tables.
The principal features of this report are the market estimates and forecasts—as well as a unique analysis of the industry at this time together with a comparison with the situation as it was in 2002/2003. This report includes a substantial critique surrounding the exit of LightPointe on May 17, 2006.
The purpose of this report is to provide an update on the industry together with detailed market data for major world regions. In addition, this report provides information on the dynamics of the supply industry including changes in the players plus some important case studies.
"Last-mile Links", whether cabled or wireless-connected, form the vital connections between your organization and the outside world. And today highly broadband last-mile connections are absolutely essential. In cable form these links will comprise optical fibers but this is often a very expensive solution and wireless links using microwave radio or free-space optical (FSO) technology provide much more flexibility at a fraction of the installation cost. This approach is sometimes termed "Optical Wireless".
Companies and other organizations need large bandwidths in order to effectively communicate and compete in today's fast-moving business environment. Large bandwidths generally imply bit rates ranging from a relatively modest 2 Mb/s (D1, E1) right up to and even beyond 2.5 Gb/s (2,500 Mb/s). This is necessary for a variety of reasons, for example:
- Where several staff need fast, always-on Internet access at all times;
- When videoconferencing facilities are desired (increasingly);
- Where the ability to frequently dump large files into remote storage is vital;
- Where high-speed inter-site communications over the organization's intranet are required, etc. etc.
In an ideal world every commercial building, also every home, "should" be equipped with single-mode (monomode) fiber optic access-available for all incumbents. This would provide the ultimate in bandwidth but FSO links generally require a far lower CAPEX than fiber optics-on top of which they provide for much more flexible operation and the customers can take their FSO links with them when relocating.
FSO was originally conceived more than three decades ago and, initially, it was used by the military and space aviation pioneers to provide secure and rapidly deployable communications links. Recent developments in FSO technology have taken it to mainstream communications applications that include last-mile links for wireless backhaul (and as short-term solutions in disaster scenarios). The technology also provides an attractive and viable alternative for service providers to deliver the promise of all-optical networks. As an optical technology, FSO is a natural extension of the metro optical network core, bringing optical capacity to the network edge (i.e. the customer) in a cost-effective, reliable and speedy manner.
Unlike radio-based systems, the technology requires no spectrum licenses. It is easily upgradeable, and its open interfaces support equipment from a variety of vendors which assists carriers towards protection of their infrastructure investment.
The specific advantages of FSO, compared with fiber cabling, are:
- Rapid deployment;
- Low network maintenance, management and operating costs, and;
- Relatively low installation costs.
You need your copy of this report so that you can plan in detail your strategies for addressing these substantially changing market scenarios and appropriate product technologies.
|
Similar Products
• Worldwide Carrier Ethernet 3Q09 Market Share Update
Published Nov 2009 by IDC
• Net Neutrality: Proposed Rules Set to Disrupt the Future of U.S. Broadband
Published Nov 2009 by IDC
• Australia - The National Broadband Network
Published Nov 2009 by Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd
• Microwave Radio: From TDM to Packet
Published Nov 2009 by Practel, Inc.
• Building Better Broadband (Strategic Focus)
Published Oct 2009 by Datamonitor
• Bandwidth Needs Analysis of the RBOCs' Advanced Access Architectures: FTTP and FTTN
Published Oct 2009 by Information Gatekeepers Inc
• Broadband Unwired: the Impact of Mobile Broadband on Fixed Broadband in Western Europe
Published Oct 2009 by IDC
• The regulatory approach to next-generation access: Asia-Pacific
Published Oct 2009 by Ovum Plc
• The Taiwanese DSL Industry, 3Q 2009
Published Oct 2009 by Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute
• The Taiwanese DSL CPE Application IC Market, 3Q 2009
Published Oct 2009 by Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute
|
|
|
|
0 items
