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Global Consumption of Multifiber Transmit Link Components to Rise to $407 Million by 2008, Says ElectroniCast Study
July 19, 2004 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
San Mateo, Calif. — According to ElectroniCast Corp.'s Multifiber Transmit Link and Components Forecast, global consumption of multifiber transmit link components will rise from $53.4 million in 2003 to $407 million in 2008.
Growth will be most rapid over the 2003 to 2005 span, coming off the depressed consumption level of the overall fiber optics industry in 2003, plus the fact that multifiber transceivers are now early in their application life cycle.
The multifiber transmit link market is focused almost entirely on short (1-2 km) to short (1 meter) interconnect. Vendors face two competitor groups: other multifiber transmit link vendors, and copper interconnect solutions. The battle against copper focuses on cost per gigabit transported. The VCSEL diode, versus the edge emitter laser diode (EELD), has emerged as the lowest cost optical solution in this application. The technical performance of VCSELs is advancing rapidly, to higher data rate (10 Gbps), greater power conversion efficiency, higher power output, and both singlemode and multimode, 850 and 1,310 nm solutions.
ElectroniCast's analysis and forecast is structured in three levels: 1) Applications, 2) Modules and Assemblies, and 3) Parts and Devices. The growth in production quantities of the end-application equipment, and their increasing complexity in terms of number of interconnect channels and data rate per channel drive the demand for the interconnect modules and assemblies. The modules and assemblies production, in turn, drives the demand for the piece-parts and devices. The forecasted values and quantities of the various components are segmented in great detail. A detailed forecast of parts and devices consumption similarly is presented in the report.
Founded in 1981, ElectroniCast is a world leader in forecasting for the fiber optic, optoelectronic and photonic industries. For more information, visit www.electronicast.com.