12 May 2011

EMEA optical network hardware market to grow 7% in 2011

The optical network hardware market in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region saw a strong rebound in late 2010 due to a year-end spending flurry, but it was not strong enough to turn around the decline for the year (down 11%), according to the report ‘Optical Network Hardware in EMEA: Europe, Middle East, and Africa’ from Infonetics Research.

“We forecast an overall gain of about 7% in EMEA in 2011, as a result of a spending recovery in Western Europe; access network deployments in the Middle East, particularly the Arabian peninsula and Israel; and strong growth in metro WDM equipment in Eastern and Central Europe as carriers shift from microwave to fiber-fed access for wireless backhaul,” notes Andrew Schmitt, directing analyst for optical at Infonetics Research.

In particular, Western Europe led optical hardware equipment spending in EMEA, with a 60% share in 2010. However, among the EMEA regions, the optical hardware market in Central and Eastern Europe is growing the fastest.

For full-year 2010, the EMEA optical network hardware market was led by Alcatel-Lucent (with a market share of about a third), followed closely by Huawei.

In total, the EMEA region represented 30% of worldwide telecom capital expenditures (CapEx) in 2010, and 31% of worldwide optical equipment spending.

The report tracks SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) and WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) optical hardware for metro and long-haul networks sold by vendors in the EMEA region (including Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). The service provides vendor market share, market size, and forecasts through 2015 by country and region. Companies tracked in the report include ADVA, Alcatel-Lucent, BTI, Canoga Perkins, Ciena, Cisco, Cyan, ECI, Ekinops, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, Infinera, MRV, NEC, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, Sorrento, Sycamore, Tejas, Tellabs, Transmode, Turin, Tyco, Xtera, and ZTE.

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