The optical components (OC) market will expand at...
The optical components (OC) market will expand at an 8 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2018, reaching $10.5 billion that year, research firm Ovum said Wednesday. The OC market will expand 4 percent this year on increasing optics…
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demand in datacom and WAN, Ovum said. WAN, the OC market’s largest segment, has been experiencing double-digit growth because of high demand for 100G ports; datacom, meanwhile, will have a 16 percent CAGR through 2018, Ovum said. “Demand to support data centers for cloud services is a large driver for datacom sales, and high-speed transceivers are needed to support this segment,” said Daryl Inniss, Ovum practice leader-components, in a news release. The OC market’s revenue growth has a counterbalance in equipment vendors’ efforts to manufacture their own components, but they ultimately must rely on component vendors to drive down costs, Ovum said (http://bit.ly/1au5oAM).