[Report] Long Haul 2002: The Optical Strategies of Service Providers and Their Perspectives on Vendor Solutions TOC

Executive Summary

A Relatively Healthy Market
- Capacity Glut Nonsense
Competitive Analysis of Leading Long-Haul Optical Gear Vendors (subject to change)

Alcatel
Altamar
Calient
Ceyba
Ciena/ONI
Cisco Systems
Corvis
Fujitsu
Hitachi
Lucent
NEC
Nortel
Optisphere
Photonex
Sycamore
Tellabs
Tellium
Xtera Communications
Other Vendors - including AcceLight, BrightLink, Ericsson, Innovance, Marconi, Movaz, Optimight, Sorrento Networks, TeraBurst

Strategies, Opportunities, Traps, and Other Observations

I. Introduction

Objectives of the Report
Scope of the Report
Methodology and Information Sources
Forecasting Process
Plan of this Report

II. Long-Haul Optical Transport Technologies/Solutions

History of Network Development
Capabilities of Solutions
- Cost Matters
  - Commodity-like Business Nature
DWDM in the C band
SONET ADM Cannibalization
OC-768
Ultra-Long Haul
- Transparency
Protection
L & S bands
Network Intelligence
- Ring and Mesh Architectures
OADMs
Standards

III. Nationwide IXC Long-Haul Optical Networking/Business Game Plans (subject to change)

AFN Communications
AT&T
Broadwing
EPIK Communications
Genuity
Level 3
Qwest
Sprint
Touch America
Williams
WorldCom
Other Continental Carriers - including 360networks, Cogent, Digital Teleport, Global Crossing, MFN, Winstar, XO

IV. Regional IXC Long-Haul Optical Networking/Business Game Plans (subject to change)

Allegiance
Dominion Telecom
Edison's Network
EPIK Communications
FPL FiberNet
ITC DeltaCom
NEON
Norlight
Onvoy
Progress Telecom
Southern Telecom
US Signal
Other Regional Carriers
Time Warner

V. Five-year Forecasts of Long-Haul Optical Transport (subject to change)

Forecast Methodology
Standard Long-Haul DWDM
- by distance
- by channel size
- by band type
ULH DWDM
- by Raman/EDFA
- by pure Raman
Long-Haul SONET ADMs
- by SONET rate
OADMs (Dynamic vs. fixed)
- by capacity
Optical Switching Update