OTN Market Market to Reach $10B

BOSTON -- Market research firm Infonetics Research (http://twitter.com/infonetics) this week released its OTN Hardware Market Outlook, the first report to track, segment, and assess vendor market share for both optical transport network (OTN) transport equipment and OTN switching equipment.

"There has been a lot of discussion about the increasing use of OTN in carrier networks, but until now, little effort by the analyst community to quantify the size of the market," notes Andrew Schmitt, directing analyst for optical at Infonetics Research. "Our OTN report is unique in that it not only tracks OTN hardware, but it makes the important distinction between mature OTN transport equipment and nascent, fast-growing OTN switching equipment. Each segment is in a different stage of adoption and has a wildly different growth rate. Case in point: OTN switching revenue jumped 132% in 2010 over 2009, while OTN transport revenue grew 9%. Both segments are growing at a pace that far outstrips the 3.7% CAGR of the overall optical market."

Infonetics Research Inc.