New CIR Report Predicts $4.8 Billion ($US) Telecom Transponder/Transceiver Market...

New CIR Report Predicts $4.8 Billion ($US) Telecom Transponder/Transceiver
Market in 2013

GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new report from
CIR, an industry analyst firm based here, the market for telecom transceivers
and transponders modules will grow from $1.5 billion in 2008 to $4.8 billion
in 2013. Additional details about the new report can be found at
www.cir-inc.com . Members of the press can request an executive summary of
the report.
Report Highlights:
-- The sweet spot for module makers is still in the 10-Gbps space,
supporting the growing deployment of OC-192 in the metro and to a lesser
extent in the access networks. The trend towards replacing 300-pin, XENPAK,
X2, and XPAK with XFP (including XFP-E) and SFP+ presents numerous
opportunities. Key competitive factors in the OC-192 SONET/SDH sector will
include higher densities, lower power consumption, and improved reach. By
2013, the value of OC-192 modules shipped will be more than $450 million.
-- The global shift from TDM to WDM is underway and the long-prophesied
all-optical network is finally becoming a reality-spurred on both by growing
bandwidth demands and by the more flexible bandwidth management in WDM
equipment. In this segment, many of the opportunities have to do with
tunability, a technique whose capabilities have yet to be fully explored. At
the module level this translates into demand for more tunable modules
(especially pluggable ones) and the ability to bring cost points down to where
tunables can be used more widely in metro (and perhaps even in access)
networks. By 2013, more than $1.8 billion in WDM modules will be shipped.
-- The PON market continues to go creating a buoyant market for diplexers,
triplexers as well as conventional SFP transceiver modules. By 2013, PON
transceivers will represent the largest sector of the telecom modules market
with $2.4 billion in revenues.
About the Report
CIR's new report, "Telecom Transceiver and Transponder Markets: The Next
Five Years" provides the firm's latest forecasts of transceivers and
transponders for the public networking environment for the years 2008 to 2013.
Detailed volume and value forecasts are provided for each protocol covered
broken out by data rates, MSA, technology platform and reach. Among the
companies discussed in detail in the report include: Avanex, BinOptics,
Bookham, CyOptics, Finisar, Intel (now Emcore), JDSU, OCP (now Oplink),
Opnext, and OpVista.
About CIR
CIR provides detailed market analysis and forecasting of the trends,
technologies and opportunities in the telecom and data communications
components and modules market. Since it entered the market in 1979, CIR has
produced dozens of reports that have tracked the cutting edge of the
communications sector with a special focus on emerging technologies and high
bandwidth networking. Our focus is on supplying our customers with the most
comprehensive and detailed market data available in the sectors that we
follow.
SOURCE CIR

Robert Nolan of CIR, +1-804-360-2967, rln@cir-inc.com