Technical Insight
Profitable future in European fiber optics (Market News)
Companies selling components for fiber-optic networks in Europe can look forward to billions of dollars in sales during the next five years, according to a new series of reports from Allied Business Intelligence (ABI). Explaining Europe s unique position, ABI senior vice-president of broadband communications, Marc Liggio, said, "With more recent deregulation and progress in the building of the European Union and a more conducive geography the population centers are closely tied together many carriers have seen the opportunity for fiber optics to serve the pan-European market." The report forecasts that by 2005 the European market sizes in a number of areas will be as follows: Semiconductor amplifiers $138 million; Next-generation optical infrastructure $921 million; DWDM market $753 million; Broadband photodiodes $169 million; VCSELs $213 million; Fiber-optic receivers $1 billion; EDFAs $722 million. "The European Fiber Optic Deployment Series" is available from ABI see "www.alliedworld.com".