Market researches - 28/1/06

• Dell'Oro forecasts that the market for Optical Transport equipment would approach $11bn by 2010. It also forecasts that the 802.11n WLAN equipment market should exceed $1bn in 2007.
• According to KMI, total FTTP market for equipment, cable, and apparatus will reach $3.2bn in 2009, growing at a CAGR of 54%.
• Dell'Oro forecasts that revenue for passive optical networking (PON) equipment in 2010 will be 60% higher than in 2005, and that VDSL revenues will triple from 2005 to 2010, while revenue for slower speed ADSL equipment will be cut in half over the same period.
• According to MII, Chinese sent over 300bn SMS in 2005.
• Ethernet Switch market revenues are forecasted to grow from $14.6bn in 2004 to $18.3bn in 2010, according to Dell'Oro.
• India would become the world's third largest economy in 2006 as measured in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), reach the $4tr threshold, and become equal or greater than Japan's.
• According to Pioneer Consulting, the wireless backhaul market is worth $2bn, and could increase significantly with the penetration of 3G services.
• Nokia estimates 795m handsets were sold globally in 2005, up 24% from 2004.
• Strategy Analytics estimate that global mobile phones shipment reached 810m units in 2005, up 19% on 2004.
• Dell'Oro forecasts sales of routers to service providers would exceed $5bn in 2006.
• According to IDTechEx, the RFID market, including systems and services, would reach $26.2bn in 2016, $12.3bn in 2010 and $2.7bn in 2006. In 2006, IDTechEx expect 1.3 billion tags to be sold.
• Visiongain founds that about 800 cities plan to have municipal wireless broadband networks in 2006.