Abstract
“By 2015, traffic is expected to grow one-hundred-fold while operators seek an equivalent reduction in the cost of bit transport,” says Roy Rubenstein, director of research, LightCounting. “Optical technology will play a key role in meeting such tough requirements as carriers tackle operating costs and reduce the number of nodes they operate in the network.”
The rise of optical will clearly be good news for transceiver vendors but they face their own challenges. The burden of meeting such cost targets will fall most heavily on them. Transceiver players must determine which technologies to make in-house, when to apply photonic integration, and execute when partnering to tackle costly technology developments such as 100Gbps.
Will transceiver players rise to the challenge and most importantly will they be rewarded for their efforts?
This report presents historical data from 2005 to 2007 and a detailed market forecast through 2011 for SONET/SDH, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, CWDM, DWDM, FTTx transceivers, and optical interconnects, sorted in over 100 product categories. The sales data for 2005 to 2007 account for sales among 33 transceiver vendors, including 23 vendors that shared confidential sales data with LightCounting. The market forecast for 2008 to 2011 is based on a model correlating transceiver sales with network traffic growth and projected subscribers of FTTx systems.
Table of Contents
Sections:
- Executive Summary
- Section 1: SONET/SDH Transceiver Market
- Section 2: Ethernet Transceiver Market
- Section 3: Fibre Channel Transceiver Market
- Section 4: CWDM and DWDM Transceiver Market
- Section 5: FTTx Transceiver Market
- Section 6: Optical Interconnects Market
- Section 7: Forecast Methodology
Figures:
- Figure 1. Worldwide Transceiver Sales: Historical Data and Forecast
- Figure 2. Transceiver Sales by Market Segments: Historical Data and Forecast
- Figure 3. Sales of 10-Gbps, 40-Gbps and 100-Gbps Modules by Application
- Figure 4. Sales of SONET/SDH Transceivers by Data Rate
- Figure 5. Sales of SONET/SDH by Form Factor
- Figure 6. Sales of Ethernet Transceivers by Data Rate
- Figure 7. Shipments of 10GBASE-SR Transceivers by Form Factor
- Figure 8. Sales of Optical 10GigE Transceivers by Standard
- Figure 9. Sales of Fiber Channel Modules by Data Rate
- Figure 10. Sales of CWDM and DWDM Transceivers by Data Rates
- Figure 11. Sales of FTTx Transceivers by Type
- Figure 12. Sales of Optical Interconnects
- Figure 13. Utilized Bandwidth in Core Telecom and FTTx Access Networks - Multiple Scenarios
















