World Optical Transport and Switching Infrastructure Markets Provides Insights into...

World Optical Transport and Switching Infrastructure Markets Provides Insights into the Current Trends in the Market and Factors Influencing the Current Growth in the Market

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83068) has announced the
addition of "World Optical Transport and Switching Infrastructure
Markets" to their offering.

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Optical
Transport and Switching Infrastructure Markets provides insights into
the current trends in this market, factors influencing the current
growth in the market, and market segments that are contributing the
most revenues. The research also provides revenue forecasts for each
of the six segments covered, geographic regions, as well as the total
market. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts
thoroughly examine the following markets: core DWDM, metro WDM,
optical cross-connect, multiservice provisioning platform, SONET/SDH
add-drop multiplexers, and digital cross-connect.

Core DWDM and Metro xWDM: Powerhouse of the Total Global Optical
Transport and Switching Infrastructure Markets

The worldwide optical transport and switching infrastructure
market should turn in a strong performance in 2007. "Growth in the
core and metro optical transport segments is expected to be robust,
with the optical cross-connect space characterized by a moderate
increase," notes the analyst of this research service. "Combined, the
core and metro optical transport segments are expected to contribute
more than half of the total global optical market revenues in 2013."

At the same time, a steep decline is expected in the digital
cross-connect and SONET/SDH add-drop multiplexer segments. This
anticipated drop, however, will not affect the legacy multiservice
provisioning platform (MSPP) business. MSPPs show some strength in the
emerging markets, and a new breed of MSPP, the packet optical network
platform, targeted at the transition from time division multiplexing
(TDM) to packet is augmenting the role of the MSPP in the migration
process.

Vendors Must Address Constantly Evolving Requirements to Convert
Challenges to Opportunities

The varied pace of deployment of optical technologies in the major
geographical regions by different service providers presents both
challenges and opportunities for equipment vendors going forward.
Vendors that address issues concerning complex requirements such as
increased capacity and scalability as well as future proofing of
networks are likely to be successful in transforming these challenges
into opportunities.

Vendors must focus on incorporating new technologies that are
likely candidates for standardization and continually meet more
stringent price-performance thresholds. Upgrading the metro network to
support new high-bandwidth connections to customers, significantly for
video and other applications, has become a top priority for service
providers. "Hence, it has also become critical for optical transport
and switching infrastructure vendors to work hand-in-hand with service
providers to address their current concerns, while offering a clear
solution to future network deployment issues," notes the analyst.

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Key Topics

- Market Introduction and Overview
- Market Dynamics
- Revenue Forecasts and Market Share Analysis
- Vendor Profiles

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following
market sectors in this research:

By Technology Segment:

Core DWDM
Metro WDM
Optical cross-connect (OXC)
Multiservice provisioning platform (MSSP)
SONET/SDH add-drop multiplexers
Digital cross-connect (DXC)

By Geographic Region:

North America
Europe
Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Asia Pacific (APAC)
Caribbean and Latin America (CALA)

Companies mentioned:

-- ADVA Optical Networking
-- Alcatel-Lucent
-- Calient Networks
-- Ciena
-- Cisco Systems
-- Corrigent Systems
-- ECI Telecom
-- Ericsson
-- Fujitsu
-- Huawei
-- Matisse Networks
-- Meriton Networks
-- Nokia-Siemens Networks
-- Nortel
-- OpVista
-- Sycamore Networks
-- Tellabs Inc.
-- Turin Networks
-- ZTE
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