Abstract
“System vendors are experiencing severe price pressures as network
traffic continues to grow,“ says Roy Rubenstein, director of
research at LightCounting. Operators want equipment costs reduced and new
architectures that simplify operational expense.“Equipment makers will
reward those transceiver vendors that help them meet cost targets and new
interfaces requirements so that they can focus on more challenging
architectural issues,” says Rubenstein.
The optical transceiver market has now shown three years of steady growth.
Sales of optical transceivers exceeded $2 billion in 2007, and grew at an
annual rate of 10 percent. Global transceiver sales will continue to grow and
reach $2.8 billion in 2011. Wide adoption of high-speed 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps
interfaces in telecom and enterprise networks along with global FTTx
deployments will be the main drivers of this growth.
LightCounting February 2008 Forecasting report presents detailed historical
data from 2005 to 2007 and forecast through 2011 for SONET/SDH, Ethernet,
Fibre Channel, CWDM, DWDM, FTTx transceivers and optical interconnects, sorted
in over 100 product categories including 26 new categories such as SFP+ form
factor, 40 and 100 Gbps and next generation FTTx PON transceivers among others.
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