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| GPON: Still Waiting for Lift-Off |
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Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON), one of many technologies used for fiber to the home (FTTH) and fiber to the building (FTTB), has not taken off in 2008, as expected last year. While North America has deployed the technology as expected, Europe has not committed to widespread FTTH plans using GPON. Some encouraging signs of GPON interest have emerged from Asian markets, but rollouts in the rest of the world are still limited in number or scale.
Nonetheless, GPON optical network terminal (ONT) shipments from some vendors number in the hundreds of thousands. The technology is maturing and vendor interoperability is increasing, and GPON thus remains the most likely FTTH technology to succeed in the short and medium term. If the short-term market opportunity might not be as big as previously thought, competing higher-capacity technologies do not yet seem ready to challenge GPON's position as the technology of choice for FTTH rollouts in most regions of the world over the next two to five years.
The considerable number of vendors sticking with GPON have responded to market setbacks by addressing operators' cost concerns through work to drive down costs (such as interoperability testing); pitching GPON to cable multiple system operators (MSOs); creating an ever-expanding range of ONTs to suit different service requirements; and promoting the technology for mobile backhaul and fiber to the curb (FTTC).
This report explores and analyzes the GPON equipment sector, including a five-year global market forecast. It provides an overview of recent GPON developments in markets around the world, indicating likely major areas of opportunity. It reviews the impact on the GPON market of current economic and regulatory conditions – in particular the continuing uncertainty over the business case for all forms of FTTH – and assesses progress toward interoperability and development of the next generation of PON technologies. The report includes profiles of 15 GPON equipment suppliers, including a competitive analysis of their entire GPON portfolios.
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 Table of Contents (lri1108_toc.pdf) |
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| While 2008 has not lived up to expectations regarding GPON deployments, the sector continues to grow, and network operators continue to invest in the technology. The following figure summarizes significant GPON contracts and announcements during 2008 from outside North America. |
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 Vendors profiled in this report include: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU); Calix Networks Inc.; ECI Telecom Ltd. (Nasdaq: ECIL); Enablence Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: ENA); Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC); Hitachi Telecom (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE: HIT; Paris: PHA); Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.; Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT); NEC Corp. (Nasdaq: NIPNY; Tokyo: 6701); Occam Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: OCNW); Pannaway Networks Inc.; Tellabs Inc. (Nasdaq: TLAB; Frankfurt: BTLA); TXP Corp. (OTC: TXPO); Zhone Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ZHNE) |
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| NOVEMBER 2008 |
 GPON |
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| DECEMBER 2008 |
| DPI |
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| JANUARY 2009 |
| Ethernet Over Copper |
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| FEBRUARY 2009 |
| Cloud Computing |
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