Broadcast Video Optics: Market Overview: Industry Report

Broadcast Video Optics: Market Overview

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: August 2007
Product Code: R464-560

Description

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the rise of telecom video has boosted the demand for RF-modulated optics to transmit broadcasted video signals in both cable HFC (hybrid fiber coax) and FTTx RF overlay networks.

The conventional wisdom these days is everything is going IP, and for that matter everything is going to be transported via Ethernet. It goes almost without saying that the data, voice, or video being sent is in digital form. It’s a foregone conclusion and rather unexciting — except for flashy new personalized video services.

So where does that leave a technology that has variously been described as analog and broadcast? In fact, the market for broadcast video over radio frequency (RF)- modulated optics has held steady for years, grown the past few, and even shows signs of accelerating this year.

Table of Contents

Bandwidth upgrades drive continued HFC investment: Forward-path upgrades now, but expect to see reverse-path upgrades picking up shortly; RF over optics is agnostic to payload and very bandwidth efficient
Technology trends by product type: 1550 nm headend transmitter; Hub forward transmitters; Optical amplifiers; Reverse path transmitters; Receivers; Video OLT and ONU for Japanese video overlay
Industry landscape: Equipment vendors (component customers); Component and board/module vendors; The bottom line
Table of figures: Figure 1 RF spectrum for HFC cable TV and related FTTx video overlay; Figure 2 Generic cable network conceptually defining headend, hub, and node as used in this report; Figure 3 RF video overlay generic architecture; Figure 4 Broadcast video component vendor differentiation

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