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New CIR Report States That the Transmission Module Market Will Reach $13.4 Billion By 2012

Posted on: Thursday, 3 May 2007, 12:00 CDT

GLEN ALLEN, Va., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new report from CIR, an industry analyst firm based here, the market for telecommunications and datacom transmission modules will reach $13.4 billion by 2012. The report is the next in a series from CIR that examines market and technology trends and opportunities in the optical communications sector. Details are available on the firm's website at http://www.cir-inc.com/ .

From the Report:

According to CIR, several factors are driving the transmission modules market:

The network is becoming increasingly fiberized with widespread deployment of 10 GigE, traditional copper infrastructure being abandoned in the data center with Fibre Channel (at 4 Gbps and above) and parallel optics assuming a growing role and PON architecture at last bringing fiber to the home. In the 10 GigE sector, replacing XENPAK, X2 and XPAK with XFP (including XFP-E) and SFP+ presents numerous opportunities, especially since the boundaries between these two emerging MSAs have yet to be defined. CIR believes that the market for SFP+ and XFP transceivers will reach $1.0 billion and $0.9 billion respectively by 2012. Technological innovations are also creating new opportunities in the 10 GigE sector. Electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) has helped create an entirely new serial 10 GigE standard called LRM with broad range of applications. And, 10GBASE-T capitalizes on new forms of copper cabling and signal processing to extend the reach of copper networks. 10GBASE-T alone should clock up $724 million in revenues in 2012 Fibre Channel is very much in the ascendant with higher data rates (4 Gbps and soon 8 Gbps) at the start of their growth curve. There is also the possibility that Fibre Channel will break out from the SAN market and find applications in mainframe-to-mainframe interconnection and in grid computing. CIR expects that the total value for Fibre Channel modules in 2012 will amount to $747 million. WDM is being spurred by growing bandwidth demands, the opportunity to eliminate costly OEO conversions and the availability of more flexible bandwidth management in WDM equipment. In this sector, many of the opportunities have to do with tunability, a technique whose capabilities have yet to be fully explored. At the module level this translates into demand for more tunable modules (especially pluggable ones) and the ability to bring cost points down to where tunables can be used more widely in metro (and perhaps even in access) networks. According to CIR WDM modules should reach $2.2 billion by 2012. About the Report:

CIR's new transmission modules report analyzes and quantifies all of the key market opportunities in the transceiver and transponder modules business through 2012. It covers Ethernet, Fibre Channel, parallel optics, PONs, SONET/SDH and WDM and addresses the impact of new signal processing technology (including EDC), optical integration/silicon photonics, and other emerging technologies on the module market. Detailed volume and value forecasts are provided for each protocol covered broken out by data rates, MSA, technology platform, reach, etc. The report also provides an analysis of current strategies of key players in the optical modules space.

About CIR:

CIR provides detailed market analysis and forecasting of the trends, technologies and opportunities in the telecom and data communications components and modules market. Since it entered the market in 1979, CIR has produced dozens of reports that have tracked the cutting edge of the communications sector with a special focus on emerging technologies and high bandwidth networking. Our focus is on supplying our customers with the most comprehensive and detailed market data available in the sectors that we follow.

CIR

CONTACT: Robert Nolan of CIR, +1-804-360-2967, rln@cir-inc.com

Web site: http://www.cir-inc.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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