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Annual sales of optical
networking equipment worldwide are forecasted to increase at a compounded rate
of nearly seven percent, growing from $17.8 billion in 2008 to $24.7 billion in
2013 as carriers begin upgrading their long haul and metro networks to handle
increases in image-based traffic, says a new market research report from Insight
Research Corp. According to this industry analysis study, optical equipment
sales are being spurred by various hybrid approaches meant to achieve today some
of the benefits associated with tomorrow’s all-optical network.
According to Insight’s
newly-released market analysis report,
“The All-Optical
Network: The Role of Hybrid Transfer Nodes for Optimization in SONET, DWDM and
MPLS Metro & Long Haul Networks, 2008-2013”, the advantages of
all-optical networking includes greater flexibility in routing and switching
optical signals, low cost, zero-interference processing of signals at
intermediate nodes, and the elimination of optical-electronic-optical conversion
of signals. The study found, however, that true all-optical networking is years
from realization. In the meantime, optical networking engineers have developed
hybrid approaches to optimize their manufacturing processes, transmission
technologies, and transport protocols in order to win some of the benefits of
all-optical networking immediately.
Insight
Research identified Carrier Ethernet, generalized multi-protocol label switching
(GMPLS ), reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs), and photonic integrated
circuits (PICs) as areas where the hybrid approach to an all-optical network is
most evident.
“All-optical networking will
drop operational costs and increase throughput, but the reality is that true
end-to-end optical networking is still years away,” says Robert Rosenberg,
President of Insight. “In the
meantime, various hybrid approaches such as Carrier Ethernet and ROADM at the
transport level, GMPLS at the protocol level, and PICs at the device level are
all being applied to win the benefits of optical networking today,” Rosenberg
concludes.
A free report excerpt, table of
contents, and ordering information is available online at http://www.insight-corp.com/reports/optical08.asp.
This 189-page report is available immediately for $3,995 (hard copy). Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) report licenses are also available.
For more information please contact:
Ms. Kim Novak, Marketing Director
973-541-9600
kim@insight-corp.com
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