Glenn Allen, Virginia (MMD Newswire) February 11, 2010 — CIR, an industry analyst firm based here, has just issued a white paper that examines the market opportunities for active optical cabling (AOCs) in digital signage. The new CIR white paper was drawn from an earlier report titled, “Active Optical Cabling: A Technology Assessment and Market Forecast.”
The paper can be downloaded from the CIR website at www.cir-inc.com. There is no cost to access the document.
Key findings:
The fiber optics industry is currently looking to even larger volume markets in data communications, consumer electronics and personal communications. This is natural enough. These newer addressable markets are crying out for fiber as improved processor cost/performance ratios and bandwidth-hungry applications create network bottlenecks ever closer to the customer.
Active Optical Cables (AOCs) are designed to facilitate such short-reach optical connections. However, in assessing their near-term revenue potential, it is important to seek opportunities that actually need the data rates that AOCs can offer. CIR analysis suggests that some of the more fashionable markets that have been suggested for AOCs-home theater and PCs, especially-have limited short-term revenue potential. By contrast, the digital signage market may well be the next business opportunity for AOCs after the data center.
About the Report:
“Active Optical Cabling: A Technology Assessment and Market
Forecast” provides CIR’s assessment of the market with forecasts expressed in volume and value terms for AOC sales. This report also profiles and assesses the product/market strategies of all firms currently marketing or planning to market AOCs, as well as assessing the implications of the new AOC technology for OEMs and chip companies.
Companies mentioned in this report include: Ace Plus,
Alcatel-Lucent, Alight, AppliedMicro, Avago, Cisco, Corning, Dell, Emcore, Ericsson, Eudyna, Finisar, Firecoms, Freescale, Gevista, HP, Intel, JDSU, Lightwire, Luxtera, Mellanox, MergeOptics, Molex, Oclaro, Opticom, Opticis, Reflex Photonics, Samsung, Silicon Image, SmartAVI, Sumitomo, Sun, Teranetics, TriQuint, Tyco, VI Systems, Vitesse, W. L. Gore, and Zarlink.
About CIR
CIR provides detailed market analysis and forecasting of the
trends, technologies and opportunities in telecom and data communications components and modules markets. Since 1979
CIR has produced numerous reports that have tracked the cutting edge of the communications sector with a special focus on emerging technologies and high bandwidth networking.
