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World Optical Transport and Switching Infrastructure Markets

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Frost & Sullivan
Published: July 2007
Product Code: R1-5986
Description
Research Overview

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Optical Transport and Switching Infrastructure Markets provides insights into the current trends in this market, factors influencing the current growth in the market, and market segments that are contributing the most revenues. The research also provides revenue forecasts for each of the six segments covered, geographic regions, as well as the total market. In this research, Frost & Sullivan’s expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: core DWDM, metro WDM, optical cross-connect, multiservice provisioning platform, SONET/SDH add-drop multiplexers, and digital cross-connect.

Market Sectors

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:

By Technology Segment:
  • Core DWDM
  • Metro WDM
  • Optical cross-connect (OXC)
  • Multiservice provisioning platform (MSSP)
  • SONET/SDH add-drop multiplexers
  • Digital cross-connect (DXC)
By Geographic Region:
  • North America
  • Europe,
  • Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
  • Asia Pacific (APAC)
  • Caribbean and Latin America (CALA)
Market Overview

Core DWDM and Metro xWDM: Powerhouse of the Total Global Optical Transport and Switching Infrastructure Markets

The worldwide optical transport and switching infrastructure market should turn in a strong performance in 2007. "Growth in the core and metro optical transport segments is expected to be robust, with the optical cross-connect space characterized by a moderate increase," notes the analyst of this research service. "Combined, the core and metro optical transport segments are expected to contribute more than half of the total global optical market revenues in 2013."

At the same time, a steep decline is expected in the digital cross-connect and SONET/SDH add-drop multiplexer segments. This anticipated drop, however, will not affect the legacy multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) business. MSPPs show some strength in the emerging markets, and a new breed of MSPP, the packet optical network platform, targeted at the transition from time division multiplexing (TDM) to packet is augmenting the role of the MSPP in the migration process.

Vendors Must Address Constantly Evolving Requirements to Convert Challenges to Opportunities

The varied pace of deployment of optical technologies in the major geographical regions by different service providers presents both challenges and opportunities for equipment vendors going forward. Vendors that address issues concerning complex requirements such as increased capacity and scalability as well as future proofing of networks are likely to be successful in transforming these challenges into opportunities.

Vendors must focus on incorporating new technologies that are likely candidates for standardization and continually meet more stringent price-performance thresholds. Upgrading the metro network to support new high-bandwidth connections to customers, significantly for video and other applications, has become a top priority for service providers. "Hence, it has also become critical for optical transport and switching infrastructure vendors to work hand-in-hand with service providers to address their current concerns, while offering a clear solution to future network deployment issues," notes the analyst.
Table of Contents
1 MARKET INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

Market Overview

Executive Summary

Scope of Research

Market Definitions

2 MARKET DYNAMICS

Market Engineering Measurements

Market Engineering Measurements

Factors Impacting Market

Industry Challenges

Market Trends and Competitive Structure

Key Market Trends

Competitive Structure

3 REVENUE FORECASTS AND MARKET SHARE ANALYSIS

Factors Impacting Market Growth

Market Drivers

Market Restraints

Revenue Forecasts

Revenue Forecast of the Total Market

Forecasts by Product Type

Forecasts by Geographic Region

Percent of Revenues by Product Type and Geographic Region

Percent of Revenues by Product Type

Percent of Revenues by Geographic Region

Percent of Revenues by Product Type and Geographic Region

Market Shares

Market Share in the Total Market

Market Share by Product Type

Market Share by Product Type and Geographic Region

4 VENDOR PROFILES

Vendor Profiles

ADVA Optical Networking

Alcatel-Lucent

Calient Networks

Ciena

Cisco Systems

Corrigent Systems

ECI Telecom

Ericsson

Fujitsu

Huawei

Matisse Networks

Meriton Networks

Nokia-Siemens Networks

Nortel

OpVista

Sycamore Networks

Tellabs Inc.

Turin Networks

ZTE

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