WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - October 31, 2016) - LightCounting projects that the market for optics used in communications will grow at a CAGR of 10% in 2017-2021. Sales of optical products to the cloud datacenter market will outpace the rest of the market, increasing by 20% per year on average.
The total market for optical components and modules is expected to grow by 17% in 2016, with sales of DWDM and Ethernet products increasing by more than 30%. Massive deployments of 100G DWDM networks in China and 40GbE/100GbE optics in mega-datacenters by cloud-based companies are the main drivers of market growth this year.
"The increasing contribution of China to the global market was related to its massive deployments of FTTx and wireless fronthaul optics in 2011-2015, but the situation has changed in 2016" -- commented Dr. Vladimir Kozlov, CEO and founder of LightCounting Market Research. "This year it is demand for 100G DWDM and 100GbE optics that increased China's share of the global market, and we think this trend will continue in 2017-2021."
The Market Forecast report provides a detailed market demand forecast through 2021 for optical components and modules used in Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, CWDM/DWDM, wireless infrastructure, FTTx, and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Key inputs include an analysis of the business and infrastructure spending of the top 15 service providers and leading Internet companies, and sales data from 2010 to 2016 for more than 30 transceiver vendors, including more than 20 vendors that shared their confidential sales information with LightCounting. The forecast is based on LightCounting's forecast model, which correlates transceiver sales with network traffic growth and the projected deployments of LTE and FTTx systems for broadband access.
More information on the report is available at: http://www.lightcounting.com/Forecast.cfm
LightCounting is a leading optical communications market research company, offering semiannual market updates, forecasts, and state-of-the-industry reports based on its analysis of primary research with dozens of leading module, component, and system vendors as well as service providers and other users. LightCounting is the optical communications market's first choice source for the accurate, detailed, and relevant information necessary for doing business in today's highly competitive environment. Privately held, LightCounting is headquartered in Eugene, Oregon. For more information, go to http://www.LightCounting.com, or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/lightcounting.
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