OCTOBER 22, 2008 -- ElectroniCast Consultants (search for ElectroniCast) today announced the release of a new market forecast and analysis of the global market consumption and technology trends of Chromatic Dispersion Compensating Filter Modules (CDCFMs).

According to the study results, modules dealing with telecommunications networks-- including the test & measurement equipment contributing to those networks of 10 Gbits/sec or higher--held a 49% relative market share in 2007. By 2012, as the need to remotely adjust higher data rates (equal to or greater than 10 Gbits/sec) arises, variable or tunable CDCFMs serving the 10-Gbit/sec and over links will dramatically increase in market share to 71%, or $150.17 million.

Variable or tunable modules for network transmission rates of less than 10 Gbits/sec will have a 16% market share by 2012, for a total of $43.04 million. Fixed CDCFMs, serving the 10-Gbit/sec and higher transfer rate market, will demonstrate slow annual growth in consumption value during the forecast period, say analysts.

"Planners are considering using the combination of improved fixed (plug-in) CD compensation and tunable per-channel compensators, near term, rather than phasing over to next-generation fiber," reports Stephen Montgomery, president of ElectroniCast Consultants � APAC. "Having spent hundreds of millions of dollars installing new fiber [between] 1995-2000, most long-haul service providers are not eager for another major fiber-deployment cycle near term," he notes.