Abstract
Communication industry movement into broadband services is accelerating. Multimedia business
communication loading on the telecom and internet access links will multiply dramatically over the
next decade. New technology such as optical amplifier driven passive optical networks and next
generation fiber optic fast packet switches will bring major revisions in network design in and from
the central office and PoP to the subscriber and in interoffice. A wide range of new products will
support the building of these new networks. Early versions of these products are now on the market,
but design evolution will continue, and cost per function will drop.
This ten-year forecast of the high data rate system demand for electronic, optoelectronic and all
optical network (AON) products will provide information of high value to telecom equipment and
system manufacturers, fiber optic component vendors, internet service providers, telephone companies
and competitive access providers:
- New product markets; timing and price sensitivity
- New product availability, performance and pricing, standards, suppliers
- Constraints placed on manufacturers by telco and data communicationcost requirements and growth
plans
- Evolution of service providers, which are the future customers forbroadband products
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