Dell'Oro: Optical transport grows sharply in 2Q08

Aug. 20, 2008
AUGUST 20, 2008 -- The worldwide optical transport equipment market grew to a new quarter high of $3.5 billion.

AUGUST 20, 2008 -- According to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group (search for Dell'Oro), the worldwide optical transport equipment market grew to a new quarter high of $3.5 billion. The top vendors in the quarter were Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, and Nortel, which garnered nearly 50 percent of the market share.

"The optical equipment market had another strong quarter with revenues growing 13 percent, far exceeding expectations," said Jimmy Yu, director of optical transport research at Dell'Oro Group. "DWDM equipment sales continued on their growth trajectory with a 24 percent growth rate as service providers increased their installation of long-haul capacity and 40-gigabit wavelengths. There are six vendors shipping 40-gig wavelengths. The leading vendor in 40-gig wavelengths continued to be Nokia Siemens Networks with Nortel following closely in second. In addition, we believe that Ciena and Nortel continued to ship naked 40-gig long-haul systems, where the transponder is not located in the vendor's DWDM terminal, but rather in a core router such as Cisco's CRS-1," Yu added.

Dell'Oro Group's "Optical Transport" report captures revenue by region. In the second quarter, all regions with the exception of North America reported sequential growth in optical revenue. Asia-Pacific reported the strongest growth for this quarter.

The report offers coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, average selling prices, unit shipments, and tributary/line or wavelength shipments (by speed OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4, OC-48/STM-16, OC-192/STM-64, OC-768/STM-256, and Other). The report tracks DWDM long-haul terrestrial, WDM metro, SONET/SDH, and optical switch equipment.

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