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| “Data Center Structured Cabling Systems Market” provides detailed analysis of the cabling inside data centers. Cabling system architectures are described for three different data center site sizes. New fiber and copper products, recently released, targeting the data center cabling market are described, analyzed and forecast, including new fiber plug n’ play products and new fiber MPO connectors. The current support of 10 Gbps Ethernet is described with details on future 40 and 100 Gbps Ethernet technologies inside data centers. New technologies, such as Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and virtualization are analyzed for their impact on data center cabling. Five year forecasts, year-by-year, from 2009 (historical year) through 2015 includes:
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Press Release
DATA CENTER CABLING MARKET FORECAST TO GROW AT AN 18.9% RATE
HUMMELSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, November 9, 2010 —FTM Consulting announced that its latest study, “Data Center Cabling Systems Market,” projects the market will grow from $1.6 billion in 2010, at an 18.9% rate, to$3.8 billion by 2015. Compared to the total structured cabling systems market’s projected growth of 13.1% over the next five years, the data center cabling market offers one of the highest growth applications. Frank Murawski, President of FTM Consulting, said, “The recent analysis on this market revealed a surprising finding -- the copper cabling segment will be larger than the fiber cabling segment during the forecast period. There now are, and will be, a larger number of smaller data center sites requiring copper cabling than the larger sites, which use fiber cabling. Even though most of the recent product introductions targeting this market have been fiber-based, our analysis indicates that by 2015, there will be 2.6 billion servers at large sites being cabled, compared to the small sites with 5.8 billion servers.” The report provides data for both new data center sites and existing sites being recabled. Frank commented, “Prior to the TIA 942 data center cabling standard, many sites were a rat’s nest of cabling - disorganized, with no provisions for data center upgrades. As these sites grow because of adding storage, a point will be reached when it is no longer feasible to handle this in a piecemeal manner. There will be the need to put in place a structured cabling system to manage current expansion and future growth.” One of the significant technology developments will be the higher speeds (bandwidths) needed at data centers. Currently, 10 Mbps Ethernet is the highest speed being implemented. In the near future, both 40 and 100 Gbps will start to be deployed. Whereas the current 10 Gbps Ethernet requires only 2 fibers per port, the future 40/100 Gbps Ethernet speeds will require multiple parallel fibers per port, 8 for 40 Gbps and 20 for 100 Gbps. Newer plug n’ play fiber products that provide this parallel fiber approach will be needed. These newer products are analyzed and forecast in this new report.
