World Metro Area Network (MAN) Test Equipment Markets

Frost & Sullivan
December 15, 2005
158 Pages - SKU: MC1327035
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Research Overview

This Frost & Sullivan research service entitled World Metro Area Network (MAN) Test Equipment Market provides an in-depth analysis of the market that includes key challenges, drivers, and restraints that are impacting MAN test equipment vendors. It also provides a detailed overview of technological and market trends as well as major market opportunities and strategic recommendations to test vendors. In this research service, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following application segments: research and development (R&D), installation and maintenance (I&M), and manufacturing.

This analysis is available through our Test & Measurement Growth Partnership Service program. With this program, clients receive industry-leading market research such as this, along with technical and econometric data and many interactive features including Analyst Inquiry Time and Client Councils.

Market Sectors

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
  • Research and development (R&D) MAN test equipment
  • Manufacturing MAN test equipment
  • Installation and maintenance (I&M) test equipment
Technologies

The following technologies are covered in this research:
  • Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE): Ethernet came forward as a standard system level network because of its universal acceptance. The term Ethernet was initially used to refer to the family of local area network (LAN) products but with the emergence of GigE and 10 GigE, the Ethernet technology expanded its market to MANs and WANs as well.
  • Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH): SONET/SDH refers to a group of fiber optic transmission rates that are able to transport digital signals with different capacities. SONET technology offers a cost-effective transportation both in the access area and core of network. Telephone or data switches, for instance, rely on SONET transportation for interconnection.
  • Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS): MPLS is a method that is used to increase the speed of network traffic flow by inserting information about a specific path routed to its destination. MPLS appeared to be a successful solution to meet the bandwidth management and service requirements for next-generation IP-based backbone networks. MPLS deals with scalability and routing issues and can subsist over ATM and frame relay networks.
  • Resilient Packet Ring (RPR): RPR is also known as IEEE 802.17 standard. It is a technology that is designed to improve the data traffic transportation over fiber rings. It is intended to provide the flexibility of SONET/SDH networks with a packet-based transmission in order to increase the efficiency of the Ethernet and IP services. RPR technology provides fast recovery from network faults and ring topology typical of SONET, as well as the data efficiency, simplicity, and cost benefits traits of Ethernet.
  • Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM): There are two fundamental ways by which multiplexing can happen in fiber-optic networks: WDM and time division multiplexing (TDM). WDM is a technology that multiplexes several optical carrier signals on a single optical fiber by using various colors of laser light to carry different signals. It allows for increase in capacity as well as makes it possible to perform bidirectional communications over one strand of fiber.
  • Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM): DWDM is an optical technology used to increase bandwidth over existing fiber optic backbones. It also makes it possible for carriers to be able to increase their network capacity eighty or more times. DWDM networks are capable of carrying a variety of traffic types at different rates over an optical channel.
  • Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM): CWDM is a category of WDM in which un-cooled lasers are applied to overlay optical light channels in a single pipe. CWDM has the capacity to combine up to 16 wavelengths onto a single fiber. CWDM is used primarily for applications with lower data capacity requirements and for fiber that are no longer than 31 miles.
Market Overview

Increasing Demand for Bandwidth Drives Adoption of MAN Technologies

As a communication network that covers a vast geographic area such as a city or a suburb, metro area network (MAN) typically connects businesses to businesses, to a wide area network (WAN), and to the Internet. MAN was originally designed to transmit voice based on time division multiplexing (TDM) technology. As a result, synchronous optical network/synchronous digital hierarchy (SONET/SDH) has become a dominant standard on the optical networks. While this technology has been able to meet all the requirements of MAN adequately, telecommunications applications are becoming increasingly complex. This makes it difficult to transmit the signals generated by applications such as streaming video, teleconferencing, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and virtual private networks (VPNs) over SONET/SDH networks.

"Thus, rising demand for bandwidth for data transmission has driven the growth of networks based on dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and Ethernet technologies," notes the analyst of this research service. "DWDM works by combining and transmitting multiple signals simultaneously at different wavelengths on the same fiber, with a key advantage that its protocol and bit-rate are independent of each other."

Growing Deployment of Ethernet Creates Opportunities for MAN Test Equipment Vendors

Private enterprises are constantly looking for ways to increase bandwidth, as they introduce new services or add new features to their networks. MANs enable such companies to do this by functioning as a key network build-on point. The last few years have seen a tremendous expansion in bandwidth with the widespread adoption of MAN technologies such as Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE). Thus, enterprises represent strong growth opportunities for test equipment vendors.

"With the wider deployment of Ethernet, GigE, 10 GigE, and SONET/SDH, MAN test equipment vendors can expect higher demand especially for installation and maintenance (I&M) and manufacturing test equipment," remarks the analyst. "Many MAN test equipment vendors are aware that Ethernet has got a huge momentum and is going to be an established standard." One of the major factors fueling this is the ratification of the 802.3ah Ethernet in the first mile standard, which has added numerous operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) capabilities to the Ethernet link. It also helps make Ethernet more attractive for Tier 1 participants to deploy this technology to all their large customers.


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