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Campbell, CALIFORNIA, April 24, 2009—Communications market research firm Infonetics Research released its Optical Network Hardware by Vertical Market report last week. Highlights from the market research report follow.
“It is no surprise that service providers purchase the lion's share of optical gear and use all types of optical network equipment, purchasing much of long haul gear, and a majority of the SONET/SDH gear. However, non service provider verticals represent about $1 of every $7 invested in optical equipment. Much of this equipment supports storage extension of some sort, even though many non-military, non-security government bodies are building local, regional, or national networks to interconnect a large number of sites to central data.”
Michael Howard, Principal Analyst - Optical, Routing, Switching, and Ethernet - Infonetics Research
“The largest operators command the biggest share of optical network equipment spending by far, with competitive telcos the next leading market; together these two verticals account for about 90% of all service provider optical hardware purchases. Incumbents and mobile operators will continue to acquire competitors, as well as out of territory incumbents and mobile operators, and will grow into a greater slice of the pie. Cable operators represent a significant opportunity in North America, and Internet content providers, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN, represent an exciting, small but growing segment.”
Andrew Schmitt, Directing Analyst, Optical, Infonetics Research
MARKET RESEARCH REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
- Worldwide sales of optical network hardware hit $15.5 billion in 2008 and are expected to grow to $17.2 billion in 2013
- Service provider investment in optical network equipment is driven by IP network transformation, business capacity and service upgrades, residential triple play, and mobile backhaul
- Non-service provider verticals as a whole are buying more optical equipment, both in the long haul and the metro, driven mostly by high capacity, highly available storage extension, data center interconnection for businesses, and secure transmission
- Metro WDM optical equipment is a fast growing area of investment for non-service provider verticals, especially finance and government
- Top optical vendors: Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Nortel, Nokia Siemens Networks, Fujitsu, Ericsson, NEC
REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ optical hardware by vertical report provides worldwide and regional market size, forecasts, and analysis for 12 vertical markets, split by metro WDM, metro SONET/SDH, long haul WDM, and long haul SONET/SDH optical equipment.
Vertical markets tracked include 4 service provider verticals (incumbent telco and mobile operators, competitive telcos, cable operators/MSOs, ICPs), and 8 non-service provider verticals (education and research, government, finance, healthcare, media and entertainment, transportation, utilities, and other).
Markets are tracked in North America, Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific, and Central and Latin America (CALA), and totaled for worldwide.
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