Identify Where the Key Opportunities for Optical Networking Component Makers Will Be Found in the Next Few Years.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50953) has announced the addition of Optical Components Markets: 2007-Vol 1 to their offering.

The long-promised transition of optical networking is taking place. In the public networks, 40 Gbps SONET/SDH is becoming the upgrade technology of choice for many carriers. Ethernet is being overhauled by the IEEE to become a 100 Gbps network. Fiber-to-home now has a solid business model behind it. Meanwhile, WDM is of ever growing importance, not just in the network itself, but as a core technology in transmission modules of all kinds. And the point-the-point optical networks that have dominated until now are being transformed into agile networks mediated by ROADMs.

All this means that component makers have more opportunities than they have had for years. Succeeding in the components market is no longer just a matter of low prices and meeting the required specs. Instead, there are opportunities to create genuinely innovative products that fit in with emerging standards and networking trends, yet are also quite distinctive in the marketplace.

This report discusses where the key opportunities for optical networking component makers will be found in the next few years. It focuses especially on the components that will be needed in the latest high speed networks and on important technology directions including optical integration, high-speed laser modulation, tunable components and dispersion control. Included in this report is a detailed analysis of the strategies being adopted by both large component firms and start-ups to take advantage of the next wave in networking. As with all our reports, this study also includes a detailed five-year forecast of the markets covered.

Topics Covered

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

E.1 Current and future market environment for the optical components business

E.2 Summary of emerging opportunities in optical telecom components

E.2.1 Active components

E.2.2 Passive components

E.3 Implications for networking electronics

E.3.1 PHYs, PMDs and MACs

E.3.2 NPUs

E.3 Firms to watch

E.4 Summary of five-year forecasts

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to report

1.2 Objective and scope of report

1.3 Methodology and information sources for report

1.4 Plan of report

CHAPTER TWO: NETWORKING TRENDS: IMPACT ON COMPONENT TECHNOLOGIES

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Fiber-to-the-x and PONs

2.3 Optical networking in the corporation

2.3.1 10 GigE to the server and beyond

2.3.2 Fibre Channel at 8 Gbps and 16 Gbps

2.4 Optical networking in the public network

2.3.3 The revival of 40 Gbps SONET/SDH

2.3.4 WDM, agile networks and the coming OTN 

2.4 100 GigE

2.5 MSA trends

CHAPTER THREE: TECHNOLOGY AND COMPONENT TRENDS

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Silicon photonics and optical integration

3.2.1 Commercialization potential of silicon photonics

3.2.2 Other approaches to optical integration

3.2.3 Integrated laser and detector array products

3.2.4 Multi-functional integrated devices and integrated transceivers

3.3 New directions for fixed lasers, detectors and modulators

3.3.1 Diplexers and triplexers (and splitters) for PONs

3.3.2 The new parallel optics

3.3.3 High-speed modulation and modulators

3.3.4 Lasers and detectors for environments beyond 10 Gbps

3.3 The Renaissance of tunability

3.3.1 Tunable laser technology and commercialization

3.3.2 Tunable detector technology and commercialization

3.3.3 Tunable filter technology and commercialization

3.4 Dispersion compensation

3.4.1 DCF and DCMs

3.4.2 EDC for the long-haul and the short haul 

3.5 ROADM technologies

CHAPTER FOUR: MARKET ANALYSIS BY PRODUCT AND FIVE-YEAR MARKET FORECAST

4.1 Forecasting methodology

4.2 Fixed lasers, integrated transceivers and laser arrays

4.3 Tunable lasers

4.4 Receivers and detectors

4.5 Dispersion compensation devices

4.6 WDM components

4.7 ROADMs and switches

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