Investment in Optical Transport has mostly been in core and backbone networks. However, to harness the power of the optical core and backbone, service providers must build out metro networks. As telecommunications service providers extend their networks into metro and access applications, opportunities exist for equipment vendors to deliver high volume, less expensive components and systems.

To take advantage of the opportunities in this market, component manufacturers, equipment vendors, service providers, and financial institutions need to answer critical business questions including:

• What is the market opportunity for my product?
• Which equipment vendors lead the market? and why?
• What does the future hold for 40 Gbps?

To answer these and other important questions, Dell’Oro Group delivers both quarterly reports and 5-year forecasts on the Optical Transport market.

Optical Transport Quarterly Reports

In February, May, August, and November, Dell’Oro Group publishes Optical Transport quarterly reports containing in-depth market-level and detailed vendor market share information on the following markets:

• Wave Division Multiplexer (WDM) *
• SONET/SDH
• Optical Switch

* Long Haul Terrestrial and Metro reported separately

The reports include tables showing manufacturers' revenue, units/wavelengths/interfaces/ports shipped, and average selling prices. We also report by a variety of port/interface types, for example by:

• OC-3/STM-1
• OC-12/STM-4
• OC-48/STM-16
• OC-192/STM-64

We also track:

• The Optical Transport market by region – North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and rest of world
• Vendor market share by region – North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and rest of world
• CAPEX by selected North American wireline service providers
• Digital Cross-Connect Switch manufacturers' revenue of selected vendors

Optical Transport 5-Year Forecasts

In January and July, Dell’Oro Group publishes Optical Transport 5-year forecasts offering a complete overview of the market with historical data from 1998 to the present. The forecasts provide a comprehensive overview of market trends and include tables covering revenue, unit/port/wavelength shipment, and average selling price forecasts for various technologies:

• WDM
• SONET/SDH
• Optical Switch

Optical Transport Market Research Services

The Dell’Oro Group Optical Transport market research services are:

	Service Name	Technologies Covered
	Optical			Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexers – Long Haul Terrestrial
				Wavelength Division Multiplexers – Metropolitan
				SONET/SDH
				Optical Switch
	WDM			Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexers – Long Haul Terrestrial
				Wavelength Division Multiplexers – Metropolitan
	SONET/SDH			SONET/SDH

Subscription to one of the above Dell'Oro Group Optical Transport market research services also includes:

• Dell’Oro Analyst Advantage program – On-demand interaction with our senior analysts for in-depth information on virtually all aspects of the networking and telecommunications industries
• Dell’Oro BusinessIMPACT research – Rigorous research that gives you business insight and enables you to make fact-based, strategic decisions based on the best market information possible
• Web access and hard copy of four quarterly reports published in February, May, August, and November and two 5-year forecast reports published in January and July
• Participation in our client-only quarterly update conference calls