IHS Infonetics released first quarter 2015 report on the optical networking market

Market research firm IHS Infonetics recently released the first quarter of 2015 optical network hardware market research reports.

According to the report, thanks to a return to growth in EMEA and Japan large-scale deployment of 100Gbps equipment, in the first quarter year on year market, including WDM and SONET / SDH, including the entire optical network hardware growth of 5%, the total amount of $2.7 billion. WDM equipment to achieve growth of 9% growth for 11 consecutive quarters.

It reported that optical networking market in EMEA EMEA consecutive year of growth in the second quarter, which represents a long-term stagnation in this area optical networking market is finally over. Alcatel-Lucent EMEA market's biggest suppliers.

The report also noted that the Internet content provider ICP procurement has accounted for 10% of the North American optical networking market continues to be a hot optical networking market. For Internet companies need to adjust the product line has become a must-ray equipment companies.

Infonetics market analyst Andrew Schmitt pointed out that the focus of the optical networking market is shifting to the metro. More manufacturers have introduced equipment for the metro market and gradually volume production. Traditional telecom operators and emerging data center operators to deploy 100G Metro devices will be faster. Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Huawei and Infinera 100G will be the biggest beneficiaries of the market.

Also, according to C114's report, the report is expected in 2015 annual WDM market will reach $11 billion by 2019 this figure will increase to $15.3 billion, accounting for 97% of the entire optical networking market. In the first quarter, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena three occupy the top three positions optical networks. Which, thanks to large-scale global deployment of 100G OTN, Huawei's optical network of strong revenue growth of 20% in the fourth quarter rolling market share to 22.3% for 6 years ranked first in the world and in the Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA), China and the US in Latin America (CALA) region with 36.2% of the market respectively, 25.1%, 20.7% of the share are ranked first.