The optical market

The optical market
According to Infonetics, the optical market had a flat third quarter at $2.7bn, but could be up 16% for the year. Furthermore, the market will hold steady over the next 12 months and then pick up, with annual revenue growing to $11.6bn by 2008. Metro makes up 69% of all optical network hardware revenue, while long haul is doing 31%. Fujitsu leads the worldwide SONET market, followed by Tellabs and Lucent. Alcatel leads the worldwide SDH market, followed by Huawei and Nortel. Alcatel leads in worldwide optical network hardware revenue market share, followed by Nortel, Huawei, and Lucent.
North America accounts for 34% of total optical network hardware revenue, EMEA for 32%, Asia Pacific 28%, and CALA 6%.