ACTIVE OPTICAL CABLES (AOC) have created considerable "buzz" in the optical connectivity business over the past year. Active Optical Cables Market Report 2009, IGIs first report on the AOC market, examines several market segments expect to generate significant business growth over the next five years. The report includes fifteen separate market segment forecasts, covering four platform types, four bus standards, and five platform categories. It contains over 160 figures and tables. According to the report, cumulative cable revenue is expected to exceed $8.5 billion (US) from 2009 through 2013 just for the application segments included in this report. Single-year revenue is expected to grow from the present-year level of <$100 million to over $1.1 billion in 2010, then up to over $2.6 billion by 2013. As additional application segments are included in the overall market, the total revenue numbers can be expected to increase substantially over these conservative figures.

Total AOC counts identified in this report should exceed 2 million units in 2009, growing to over 75 million units by 2013. Growth in the overall AOC forecast should generate better supplier cost efficiency both at the AOC OEM cable providers and with their underlying material supplier communities.

Several key high-volume applications segments were chosen for this report. Emphasis was given to ones with products using digital electronic interfaces running either at or above 5Gbps, as well as those demanding extended cable lengths beyond 2-5 meters at these speeds.

It is already well understood that copper-based cables are experiencing significant challenges in this performance range, thus offering significant copper-displacement sales opportunity for AOC providers.

The particular sectors included in this report include the following:

• 1. Mainframe/supercomputer (HPCC)
• 2. Desktop and notebook/portable personal computers (PC)
• 3. High-definition television (HDTV)
• 4. Consumer electronics devices (CE)

The report concentratea on the following digital interfaces:

• 1. InfiniBand
• 2. USB
• 3. HDMI
• 4. DisplayPort

The report provides detailed AOC-related forecast analysis for:

• Revenue
• Number of cables sold
• Expected length of optical fiber and cable jacketing
• Number of connectors, including segmentation by application and interface type
• VCSEL counts, including breakout by VCSEL speeds

Individual tables and graphs provide the reader with overall AOC figures, as well as breakouts by application segment, product categories, and bus interfaces.

Active Optical Cables Market Report 2009 should be of interest to:

• Systems suppliers
• Cable suppliers
• Connector manufacturers
• Integrated optics suppliers
• VCSEL suppliers
• Optical detector/PIN diodes makers Investors