Jimmy Yu

Vice President

The Optical Transport market, comprising platforms that transmit wavelengths of light across wide-area networks, plays a critical role in ensuring communication networks operate at near-limitless speeds. This fact alone has driven the continuous advancement in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology for the past few decades.

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:

  • Where is the market growing? How many coherent WDM ports are shipping?
  • What is the adoption rate of new technologies such as 1.2 Tbps wavelengths? When will 2.4 Tbps shipments become material?
  • What is the market opportunity for my product?
  • Which equipment vendors lead the market, and why?

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

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

    • Multiservice multiplexers (SONET/SDH)
    • DWDM long haul
    • WDM metro
    • Optical Line Systems (OLS)
    • ZR/ZR+ optical plugs in IPoDWDM
    • Optical Packet Platforms
    • Data center interconnect application (metro and long haul)
    • Subsea application
    • Coherent DWDM Wavelength (Operating Speed, Highest Speed Capable)
    • Disaggregated WDM (Transponders, OLS, and ZR/ZR+ Optical Plugs)
    • Customer Segments:
      • Communication Service Provider
      • Cloud Service Provider
      • Cable MSO
      • Enterprise/Public

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:

  • Multiservice Multiplexers: 155 Mbps, 622 Mbps, 2.5 Gbps, 10 Gbps
  • DWDM: ≤10/40/100/200/400/800 Gbps/1.6 Tbps

We also track:

  • The Optical Transport market by region—North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Asia Pacific, China, India, Japan, and CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)
  • Vendor market share by region—North America, Europe, MEA (Middle East, and Africa), Asia Pacific, China, India, Japan, CALA (Caribbean and Latin America), and Worldwide excluding China
  • Vendor market share for port shipments (speed up to 2.4 Tbps) on the Data Center Interconnect and Internet Content Provider segments
  • Vendor market share for WDM used in Subsea applications

Optical Transport 5-Year Forecasts

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, average selling price, and regional forecasts for various technologies:

  • Coherent DWDM Wavelength (Operating Speed, Highest Speed Capability, Highest Baud Rate)
  • WDM (Metro and Long Haul)
  • OLS
  • ZR/ZR+ optical plugs in IPoDWDM
  • Multiservice Multiplexer
  • Optical Packet Platform
  • Data Center Interconnect
  • Disaggregated WDM
  • Customer Vertical

Click here to contact us for more information about the Optical Transport research program and purchasing option.