Heavy Reading Pegs Packet Optical as a $2.8B Market by 2012Research firm's new Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Quarterly Market Tracker sees packet optical transport systems breathing new life into optical networkingPRNewswire NEW YORK, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The optical networking sector will get a much-needed boost from packet optical transport systems, a brand-new class of transport gear that will ramp up to deliver $2.8 billion in worldwide revenues by 2012, according to market projections from Heavy Reading (http://www.heavyreading.com/), the market research division of CMP's Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/). Heavy Reading's newly launched Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Quarterly Market Tracker delivers a complete analysis of the emerging packet optical sector, providing detailed forecasts, up-to-minute vendor market share data, and granular product analysis on the packet optical market. "Packet optical is bringing the excitement back to the optical networking sector by combining photonics, time-division multiplexing, and Ethernet packets in a single, converged device," says Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Sterling Perrin, creator of the Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Quarterly Market Tracker. "Packet optical networking is the most significant development in the optical networking industry since the advent of the multiservice provisioning platform [MSPP] back in 1999." Heavy Reading defines packet optical transport systems as combining the following in a single device: -- WDM transport and wavelength switching ability (including ROADM)
-- Full support for Sonet and SDH traffic
-- Full Layer 2 connection-oriented Ethernet switching and aggregation
-- Carrier-class reliability, resiliency, and operations, administration
and maintenance (OAM)
Telco video applications are jump-starting carrier demand for packet- centric optical platforms, Perrin says, but these systems will also provide the underlying transport for residential Internet, wireless network traffic, and a host of enterprise applications - all of which will be dominated by Ethernet and packets. "The impact of packet optical transport systems on operator networks will be significant, and they will be deployed directly at the expense of legacy MSPP systems as well as standalone metro/regional WDM systems," says Perrin. "As a result, all suppliers of optical gear will need to be in tune with this trend." Heavy Reading's Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Quarterly Market Tracker focuses on four key areas: -- Current vendor activities, including customer wins and product updates
-- Vendor market share, updated quarterly
-- Five-year forecasts for packet optical transport systems and related
markets for metro/regional WDM and multiservice Sonet/SDH
-- Key developments in enabling technologies for packet optical transport
systems
Equipment vendors analyzed include Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco Systems, Corrigent, ECI Telecom, Fujitsu, Meriton, and Nortel Networks. Heavy Reading's Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Quarterly Market Tracker is distributed in both Excel and PowerPoint formats. Reports may be purchased individually or as part of an annual subscription. For more information, or to receive a free PowerPoint demo of the Carrier Ethernet Switch/Router Quarterly Market Tracker, please contact: Dave Williams Sales Director, Heavy Reading 858-485-8870 dave.williams@heavyreading.com Press/analyst contact: Dennis Mendyk Managing Director, Heavy Reading 201-587-2154 mendyk@heavyreading.com About Heavy Reading Heavy Reading is an independent market research organization offering quantitative analysis of telecom technology to service providers, vendors, and investors. Its mandate is to provide the comprehensive competitive analysis needed today for the deployment of profitable networks based on next- generation hardware and software. About CMP CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event, and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times, and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developer Conference, and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights, and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news. SOURCE: Heavy Reading CONTACT: Press & analysts, Dennis Mendyk, Managing Director of Heavy Web site: http://www.lightreading.com/ |