光ネットワーク業界がこの10年間で2度目の深刻な景気後退に見舞われるなか、業界最大規模の展示会/カンファレンス「Optical Fiber
Communication Conference and Exposition(OEC)/The National Fiber Optic
Engineers Conference(NFOEC) 2009」が米国サンディエゴで2009年3月22〜26日に開催されました。
“With component companies focusing their R&D dollars and wary of
expensive and uncertain future development efforts," says Scott Schube, Senior
Analyst and Strategist at LightCounting, "system vendors likely will need to
offer explicit and implicit partnership and exclusivity arrangements in order
to lure investment into next-generation 40G and 100G component
technologies.”
As the optical networking industry grapples with its second major economic
downturn of the decade, industry professionals gathered in San Diego for the
biggest component technical and trade show of the year. LightCounting was
there to cover the action with an eye on the big questions like:
What new products were unveiled at OFC/NFOEC?
What general trends are emerging?
How did recent M&A activity and cutbacks manifest themselves at the show?
Which companies are investing in new 40G and 100G technologies?
What does OFC/NFOEC activity tell us about the road ahead for optics?
The full 27-page report contents include:
An analysis of key questions facing the industry, including the ones
above, and the implications that new product introductions and developments at
the show have for these issues.
A full summary of the OSA Executive Forum with a detailed review of panel
discussions, including talks from top executives at leading system and
component vendors.
A tradeshow summary containing detailed notes on new product introductions
and company and technology news from the show, including 40G and 100G,
tunables, ROADMs, FTTx, parallel optics, SFP+, higher-speed Ethernet, 16x
Fibre Channel, test and measurement and more.
Companies covered in the report include Cisco, Fujitsu, Verizon, Qwest,
NTT, Comcast, Infinera, Source Photonics, Fitel, Avanex, Avago, JDSU, Tejas
Networks, Nistica, Opnext, Emcore, Enablence, Ofidium, Nortel, Finisar, NEL,
SOCC, Optoplex, Picometrix, NeoPhotonics, O-Net, Sierra Monolithics, Core
Optics, GigOptix, Micram, InPhi, Santur, Emcore, Excelight, Optoway, CoAdna,
Vitesse, Broadway Networks, OFS, Corning, ClariPhy, Bookham, Proximion, AMCC,
3S Photonics, Broadcom, USConnec, Timbercon, Gennum, Hitachi Cable, Luxtera,
Alight, Optametra, Luna Technologies, Anritsu, Aragon Photonics, Agilent,
Luceo, Tektronix, Synthesis Research, and OE Solutions, to name a few...
Table of Contents
Sections:
OSA Executive Forum Summary - Panel Discussions, Q&A summaries,
LightCounting' s Key Observations
OFC/NFOEC Trade Show - LightCounting' s
Analysis & Perspectives
1.) OSA Speakers & Panel Discusions - LightCounting Highlights
Keynote: Suraya Panditi, VP and GM Access and Transport, Cisco
System provider panel (“Successful Strategies for Supporting
Bandwidth-Intensive Applications”)
Stephen Carlton, VP of Planning and Product Management at Fujitsu
Network Communications
Stuart Elby, VP of Network Architecture at Verizon Networks
Joseph P. Huggins, Director of Access and Transport Technology
Management at Qwest Communications
Kou Miyake, Director of NTT Service Integration Laboratorie
Vik Saxena, Director of Network Architecture at Comcast Cable
David Welch, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Infinera
System Panel Q&A
Optical component vendor panel (“Optical Components: Technology for
New Business Strategies”)
Near Margalit, CEO of Source Photonics
Haruki Ogoshi, VP of Fitel (a division of Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.),
Giovanni Barbarossa, CEO of Avanex
Fariba Danesh, VP and GM of the Fiber Optic Products Division of Avago
Alan Lowe, President of Communications and Commercial Optical Products
at JDSU
OC Panel Q&A
Stimulus Keynote: Ryan Limaye, Head of Communications/Technology
Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Emerging markets panel (“How to Increase Profits Through Market
Expansion”)
Laura Howard, Chief Marketing Officer of ECI Telecom
Harmeet Singh, VP of Business Development and Marketing at Tejas Networks
George Sun, CEO of ZTE USA
Ashish Vengsarkar, CEO of Nistica
M&A panel (“Bold Moves and the M&A Stories Behind Them”)
Harry Bosco, President and CEO of Opnext
Hong Hou, CEO of Emcore
Arvind Chhatbar, CEO of Enablence
M&A Panel Q&A
2.) OFC/NFOEC Tradeshow Report - New product introductions, trends and implications
Telecom Components
40G and 100G - Technical Approaches and Standards
Systems
Transceiver
Modulators
Receivers
Passives
ICs
Tunables
Components
Transceivers
Fixed-wavelength WDM
ROADMs
FTTx
Cabling
Extended transmission reach
Other products:
Framers
Integrated WDM Tx/Rx
Pump lasers
Datacom Components
Existing markets
Parallel optics
SFP+
10G PHY ICs
Higher speed Ethernet: 40GbE and 100GbE
Transceivers
ICs
Optical connectors
16x Fibre Channel
Active cables
10GBASE-T
Other trends and products
Test and measurement
Alternate optical markets and applications
Computing interconnect
HD video transport
Figures:
Figure 1. JDSU tunable XFP module. Source: JDSU
Figure 2. Santur 12 x 10G WDM transceiver. Source: Santur