INTRODUCTION
STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
These BCC study analyzes the status of the fiber optic connector markets.
The primary market for fiber optic connectors is the optical network
application. Fiber optic connectors are a critical component in optical
networks. Optical networks transmit voice and data across country and
around the world.
Growth in the fiber optic connector market is linked directly to the
expansion of fiber optic networks in the world. This report considers
market conditions and opportunities in regional areas around the globe.
This report provides a standard five-year planning cycle, and revenue
estimates through 2005. It defines products segments for fiber optic
connector technology categories, analyzes technology options, determines
current application markets, as well as likely future opportunities.
Additionally, this report defines and graphically analyzes these fiber
optic connector markets from many perspectives, categorizes and profiles
the companies involved, defines unique nomenclature, and police
organizations, conferences, authors and consortiums.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF STUDY AND FOR WHOM
The world's economic system is dependent upon its ability to communicate
and transmit both voice and data information. Networks of optical fiber
span continents and circle the globe making this communication possible.
The rapid expansion in use of the Internet drives the broader optical
market, including fiber-optic connectors.
This BCC study reviews and reveals major market trends, and provides a
snapshot of the present, along with predictions for the future of fiber
optic connector markets and technologies.
AUDIENCE FOR REPORT
Network system integrators will use this report to assess the status of the
fiber optic connector market to identify suppliers and systems integrators
and forecasts the future markets. Market managers will be able to assess
the competition and identify customers and new suppliers for components.
Management consultants will determine whether companies divest or invest in
fiber optic technology based in part on the market projections, competitive
strengths and development issues revealed in this report.
Equipment managers will develop or modify existing products to address the
fiber optic technology manufacturing concerns emphasized in this report.
Material suppliers will identify market opportunities and new customers
based on the study's projected growth in applications. Venture-capital
managers will identify targets for investment, merger or acquisition based
on companies identified and described in this report. Strategic planners
will identify other companies with critical strains to strategically
partner with so they can share in the overall fiber optic technology growth
as projected in this report.
SCOPE AND FORMAT OF REPORT
This BCC business opportunity report covers, with a critical eye, the fiber
optic connector marketplace. It focuses particularly on the markets and
opportunities for fiber optic connectors in optical networking,
transportation, lighting, sensors and medical markets.
This study is presented in easy to follow sections that overview this
subject, define the technology, segment the market by product type and
application, profiles companies, and identify suppliers. All dollar amounts
are expressed in current 2000 U.S. dollars.
This is a complete source for serious players in the fiber optic connector
marketplace.
METHODOLOGY AND INFORMATION SOURSES
Materials and data presented in this report were obtained from telephone
interviews with marketing and engineering personnel at the major companies
profiled, as well as from catalogs, the Internet, patterns, and the
literature search of current articles related to fiber optic connector
technology.
ANALYSTS CREDENTIALS
The author received a Ph.D. in material science and engineering from the
University of Arizona in 1993, based on a dissertation on the fabrication
and characteristics of sol gel optical waveguides. She then worked for two
years at Sandia National Labs on the development of thin film zeolite
filters for gas separation applications. Since 1996, she has covered the
transportation market as both a contributing editor, and editor of Advanced
Transportation Technology News.
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