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Check
Out These Key Topics!
Optical Component Market Share
Optical Market Overview
Optical Component Competitive
Positioning
Transmission and Reception of
Optical Signals
Integrated Optics
Industry Environment
Products as Basic Building Blocks
Technology For Transition
Optical Component Categories
Major Optical Component Product
Lines
Optical Component Technologocal
Challenges
Large Laser Market Analysis
Tunable Laser Market Analysis
DWDM Systems
Optical Networking Systems
High Volume Optics Manufacturing
Optical
investment has been in building core and backbone networks. To harness the
power of the optical core and backbone, the metro must be built out. As
carriers move into a wider acceptance of optical networks the focus shifts to
delivering broadband signals.
Traffic volumes are increasing at a rapid pace. Investment dollars are shifting
from the core to metro networks. Carriers that are making money keep deploying
and investing in new equipment to offer new services.
As telecommunications service providers extend their networks into metro and
access applications, densities diminish and the need for high volume, less
expensive components and systems become critical. The amounts of space
available for optical networking systems diminish in metro and access systems.
The bottleneck in the deployment of optical networks has been the availability
of low cost components that can be manufactured in large scale. Unlike
electronic components, optical components are connected with fibers rather than
electric pins. It is essential that proper physical connection be made between
the fiber connectors and the device. Otherwise, unacceptable optical power
losses occur.
Products need to be designed for automated fiber alignment and attachment.
Optical components have not been designed for integration within a single fiber
package. The output of the component vendor is limited making manufacturing
costs high.
Smaller, faster, more complex and less expensive component solutions are
needed. These drive down the cost of optical systems and solve valuable real
estate issues, much of the current effort has centered on the cost of
large-scale production of commonly used discrete components such as Erbium
Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFA) and wavelength multiplexers / de-multiplexers.
Optical component markets at $1.5 billion (US) are expected to reach $2.4
billion by 2009. The world-wide market for integrated active optical products
at $1.1 billion in 2003 will grow to $1.5 billion in 2009. Integrated active
optical components include products such as transceivers and transponders.
Markets for passive optical components at $483 million in 2003 will grow to
$871 million in 2009.
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Companies Profiled |
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Agere Systems |
JDS Uniphase |
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