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News Release from: Frost and Sullivan | Subject: SONET testing market evaluation
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2006
SONET testing market evaluation
World SONET/SDH Next-generation SONET and OTN Test Equipment Markets offers a comprehensive analysis of the traditional SONET/SDH, next-generation SONET/SDH and OTN SONET/SDH test equipment markets
Increase in capital expenditure and the emergence of high-speed networks in the telecommunications industry opens up new growth opportunities in the synchronous optical network/synchronous digital hierarchy (SONET/SDH) test equipment markets However, vendors now face the challenge of providing end users with sophisticated equipment with enhanced features and scalability at a minimal price
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Frost and Sullivan finds that the World SONET/SDH Next-generation SONET and OTN Test Equipment Markets earned revenues of $199.6 million in 2005 and estimates to reach $247.8 million in 2012.
With the increase in demand for bandwidth, there is a need to expand the capacity of optical networks, which in turn, drives the adoption of next-generation SONET/SDH technologies.
"Forty gigabit Ethernet and high-accuracy jitter testing offer growth prospects to vendors in this market today," says Frost and Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Sujan Sami.
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"In addition, the need to test higher SONET/SDH networks such as OC-192 and OC-768 leads to the need for newer, upgraded test equipment".
In the long run, with service providers (SPs) increasing the size of their networks worldwide - mostly outside North America - the future of the SONET/SDH test equipment markets relies largely on such next-generation test solutions.
Test vendors need to direct their solutions toward SPs and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), which are currently the two largest end-user segments in the markets.
In 2005, SPs contributed to 62.8 percent and NEMs, 30.8 percent of total market revenues.
Product differentiation is likely to be a critical competitive factor for vendors looking to promote their next-generation test products.
Vendors that offer integrated solutions - that are not only compact, easy-to-handle units, but also demonstrate a high price/performance ratio - stand to gain the most.
"Such integrated test solutions must allow end users to perform multiple tests on various network technologies within a single platform without having to sacrifice the features and functionalities of the solutions," notes Sujan Sami.
In order to obtain a significant share of the markets, test equipment vendors not only need to closely track customer needs, but should also monitor evolving standards and advancements in SONET/SDH networks.
World SONET/SDH Next-generation SONET and OTN Test Equipment Markets, a part of the Communications Services Subscription, offers a comprehensive analysis of the traditional SONET/SDH, next-generation SONET/SDH and OTN SONET/SDH test equipment markets.
It includes end-user, application and geographic analyses coupled with detailed market opportunities and industry trends evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants.
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