| http://www.heavyreading.com/details.asp?sku_id=1500&skuitem_itemid=997 Over the first half of this decade, the long-haul and ultra-long-haul dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) markets lacked the energy, steady growth, and rapid innovation of metro optical networks, but in 2006 they began to show significant signs of improvement. Growth outpaced even the most sanguine forecasts, and the improving health of the wavelength services market, combined with ever-growing bandwidth demand, has set the stage for an ongoing surge in core DWDM investment by network operators. Long-Haul DWDM: Market & Technology Outlook Long-Haul DWDM: Market & Technology Outlook provides a detailed look at this expanding market through an extensive and exclusive survey of network operators worldwide; a forecast of the equipment market; and information gathered from direct interviews with carriers and suppliers. The report analyzes an optical market segment that has been in the shadows of the higher-profile metro and regional markets of late. The findings of this latest research reveal a market in the midst of an impressive recovery, as operators not only shore up capacity on their installed base of long-haul DWDM gear to keep up with demand, but also overlay routes or entire backbones with new gear to take advantage of the latest generation of equipment. DOWNLOAD TABLE OF CONTENTS DOWNLOAD LIST OF FIGURES PRINT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The key questions now facing network operators include:
Long-Haul DWDM: Market & Technology Outlook explores each of these questions in detail, with some answers provided by an exclusive worldwide survey of 88 service provider employees, designed to elicit their core DWDM deployment plans and feature requirements. The survey was supplemented by direct interviews with DWDM operators and vendors. Network operators interviewed for and analyzed in this report are:
Equipment vendors interviewed for and analyzed in this report are:
In 2006, the long-haul DWDM market – including those systems designed for backbone networks, with spans in excess of 1,000 km – grew more than 30 percent, to approximately $1.8 billion. This growth benefited nearly every long-haul DWDM vendor worldwide. There are many drivers, but the market is clearly ramping quickly to a cyclical peak, driven by converging factors of intense bandwidth demand from broadband Internet and mobile applications; a healthy, stabilized wholesale bandwidth and wavelength services market; new core overlays to address the requirements of newly merged operators; and generational upgrades due to aging DWDM infrastructure that is no longer economical to expand incrementally. The vast majority of network operators either are upgrading, or soon will upgrade, their DWDM backbones. In our service provider survey, 52 percent of respondents said their company is currently expanding its DWDM backbone; another 42 percent said their company will expand in 2007 or 2008. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Report Methodology The methodology of Long-Haul DWDM: Market & Technology Outlook was designed to gather information critical to equipment suppliers and service providers in the core DWDM transport market. Our primary research was conducted in two stages: First, Heavy Reading conducted a series of one-on-one interviews with employees of network operators – typically senior network planners, directors of R&D, and network architects. Subjects covered included a review of current core DWDM deployments, transport requirements for future services, feature requirements for next-gen core DWDM, and timing of deployments. Second, Heavy Reading conducted a global online survey of telecom operators to gather information on their current core DWDM strategies and future technology plans. The survey elicited 88 quality responses from employees of 88 unique service providers, including incumbent and competitive operators of every stripe. The majority of respondents were from incumbent PTTs and ex-PTTs, interexchange carriers (IXCs), Internet service providers (ISPs), and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Report Scope and Structure Long-Haul DWDM: Market & Technology Outlook is structured as follows: Section I is an introduction to the report, with complete report key findings. Section II assesses the long-haul DWDM market, analyzing its current strength and growth prospects, and offers a five-year growth forecast, drawing on supplier data and carrier interviews. Section III details the results of Heavy Reading‘s service provider survey on technology requirements for long-haul DWDM deployments. Sections IV considers evolving service provider architectures for long-haul DWDM deployments. Section V profiles select service providers with long-haul DWDM plans of particular interest.profiles select service providers with long-haul DWDM plans of particular interest. Section VI examines the equipment vendors in the long-haul DWDM space. The report is essential reading for a wide range of industry participants, including the following:
Long-Haul DWDM: Market & Technology Outlook is published in PDF format. |
