BOONTON, N.J., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Annual sales of optical
networking equipment worldwide are forecasted to increase at a compounded
rate of nearly seven percent, growing from $17.8 billion in 2008 to $24.7
billion in 2013 as carriers begin upgrading their long haul and metro
networks to handle increases in image-based traffic, says a new market
research report from Insight Research Corp. According to this industry
analysis study, optical equipment sales are being spurred by various hybrid
approaches meant to achieve today some of the benefits associated with
tomorrow's all-optical network.
According to Insight's newly-released market analysis report, "The
All-Optical Network: The Roles of Hybrid Transfer Nodes for Optimization in
SONET, DWDM and MPLS Metro and Long Haul Networks 2008-2013," the
advantages of all-optical networking includes greater flexibility in
routing and switching optical signals, low cost, zero-interference
processing of signals at intermediate nodes, and the elimination of
optical-electronic-optical conversion of signals. The study found, however,
that true all-optical networking is years from realization. In the
meantime, optical networking engineers have developed hybrid approaches to
optimize their manufacturing processes, transmission technologies, and
transport protocols in order to win some of the benefits of all-optical
networking immediately.
Insight Research identified Carrier Ethernet, generalized
multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS), reconfigurable add-drop
multiplexers (ROADMs), and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) as areas
where the hybrid approach to an all-optical network is most evident.
"All-optical networking will drop operational costs and increase
throughput, but the reality is that true end-to-end optical networking is
still years away," says Robert Rosenberg, President of Insight. "In the
meantime, various hybrid approaches such as Carrier Ethernet and ROADM at
the transport level, GMPLS at the protocol level, and PICs at the device
level are all being applied to win the benefits of optical networking
today," Rosenberg concludes.
A free report excerpt, table of contents, and ordering information is
available online at http://www.insight-corp.com/reports/optical08.asp. This
189-page report is available immediately for $3,995 (hard copy). Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) report licenses are also available.
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