Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Supply, Demand and Key Producers, 2026-2032
Description
The global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market size is expected to reach $ 5191 million by 2032, rising at a market growth of 5.8% CAGR during the forecast period (2026-2032).
Short-distance communication optical fiber refers to glass-based fiber—typically multimode OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4, or OM5—that transmits high-speed optical signals over relatively short ranges (usually <2 km) in data centers, buildings, industrial networks, and campus communication systems; it enables high-bandwidth, low-latency signal transmission for Ethernet, storage networks, sensing applications, and short-reach telecom connections.
The short-distance optical fiber industry chain begins upstream with producers of high-purity silica, germanium dopants, specialty coatings, UV-curable resins, jacketing materials, and optical preforms; midstream manufacturers perform fiber drawing, apply primary coatings, conduct bandwidth and attenuation testing, jacket fibers into tight-buffered or loose-tube structures, and assemble them into indoor/outdoor cables for short-reach data communication; downstream participants include telecom operators, data centers, enterprise IT integrators, industrial automation providers, and cable assembly manufacturers who deploy short-distance fibers for high-speed networking, supported by distributors, installers, structured cabling contractors, and data-center cabling OEMs.
Globally, projects include expansions of multimode fiber production lines in North America, China, and Europe to meet rising data-center and enterprise networking demand; several manufacturers are building new drawing towers and MCVD preform facilities to increase OM4/OM5 high-bandwidth output; R&D projects focus on bend-insensitive multimode fiber, higher-temperature-resilient coatings, and next-generation 400G-capable optical fiber systems; telecom and cloud service providers are investing in new urban data centers and campus networks requiring large quantities of short-distance fiber; emerging markets are launching structured-cabling industrial zones and fiber-optic communication parks to localize supply.
2025 Global Market Sales Volume is 11,800 million meters, the Average Global Market Price is 0.29 USD per meter, and the Market Average Gross Profit Margin is 32%.
The short-distance communication optical fiber market is expanding steadily driven by rapid growth in data centers, cloud computing, and enterprise digitalization. Multimode optical fiber remains the preferred medium for high-speed short-reach connectivity due to its low cost, ease of installation, and strong compatibility with datacenter transceivers such as SR, SR4, and SR8 modules.
Asia–Pacific leads global demand as China, India, and Southeast Asia continue investing heavily in cloud infrastructure and campus networks. North America remains a major consumer due to hyperscale datacenter development and enterprise upgrades to 100G/400G architectures. Europe shows stable adoption across telco, industrial, and institutional networks.
Opportunities include OM5 fiber for SWDM systems, bend-insensitive indoor fiber for compact datacenter routing, and ruggedized industrial fibers for Industry 4.0 communication. Risks include competition from passive copper links in ultra-short connections, price pressure from Asian manufacturers, and cyclic fluctuations in telecom spending. Market trends reflect increasing density in datacenter cabling, miniaturized high-fiber-count indoor cables, and laser-optimized multimode fibers with reduced attenuation.
Overall competitiveness depends on manufacturing scale, preform quality, bandwidth performance, and strategic supply agreements with datacenter and telecom infrastructure companies.
As global data demand continues to rise, short-distance optical fiber remains essential for high-speed intra-building and intra-facility transmission.
This report studies the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production, demand, key manufacturers, and key regions.
This report is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the world market for Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber and provides market size (US$ million) and Year-over-Year (YoY) Growth, considering 2025 as the base year. This report explores demand trends and competition, as well as details the characteristics of Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber that contribute to its increasing demand across many markets.
Highlights and key features of the study
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber total production and demand, 2021-2032, (K Meter)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber total production value, 2021-2032, (USD Million)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by region & country, production, value, CAGR, 2021-2032, (USD Million) & (K Meter), (based on production site)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber consumption by region & country, CAGR, 2021-2032 & (K Meter)
U.S. VS China: Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber domestic production, consumption, key domestic manufacturers and share
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by manufacturer, production, price, value and market share 2021-2026, (USD Million) & (K Meter)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by Type, production, value, CAGR, 2021-2032, (USD Million) & (K Meter)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by Application, production, value, CAGR, 2021-2032, (USD Million) & (K Meter)
This report profiles key players in the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market based on the following parameters - company overview, production, value, price, gross margin, product portfolio, geographical presence, and key developments. Key companies covered as a part of this study include Furukawa, Fujikura, Corning, Asahi Kasei, AGC, Toray Group, Taihan, Nanoptics, SCHOTT, Mitsubishi Chemical, etc.
This report also provides key insights about market drivers, restraints, opportunities, new product launches or approvals.
Stakeholders would have ease in decision-making through various strategy matrices used in analyzing the World Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market
Detailed Segmentation:
Each section contains quantitative market data including market by value (US$ Millions), volume (production, consumption) & (K Meter) and average price (US$/Meter) by manufacturer, by Type, and by Application. Data is given for the years 2021-2032 by year with 2025 as the base year, 2026 as the estimate year, and 2027-2032 as the forecast year.
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, By Region:
United States
China
Europe
Japan
South Korea
ASEAN
India
Rest of World
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Type:
Glass Optical Fiber
Plastic Optical Fiber
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Fiber Structure:
Single-mode Optical Fiber
Multi-mode Optical Fiber
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Outer Diameter:
0.25–0.5 mm Micro POF
1.0 mm Standard POF
2.2–3.0 mm Industrial POF
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Application:
Automotive
Industrial Equipment
Consumer Electronics
Telecom Networking Device
Others
Companies Profiled:
Furukawa
Fujikura
Corning
Asahi Kasei
AGC
Toray Group
Taihan
Nanoptics
SCHOTT
Mitsubishi Chemical
Jiangxi Daishing
Jiangsu TX
Jiangsu Etern
Hengtong
Futong
Zhongtian Technology Advanced Materials
Key Questions Answered:
1. How big is the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
2. What is the demand of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
3. What is the year over year growth of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
4. What is the production and production value of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
5. Who are the key producers in the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
6. What are the growth factors driving the market demand?
Short-distance communication optical fiber refers to glass-based fiber—typically multimode OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4, or OM5—that transmits high-speed optical signals over relatively short ranges (usually <2 km) in data centers, buildings, industrial networks, and campus communication systems; it enables high-bandwidth, low-latency signal transmission for Ethernet, storage networks, sensing applications, and short-reach telecom connections.
The short-distance optical fiber industry chain begins upstream with producers of high-purity silica, germanium dopants, specialty coatings, UV-curable resins, jacketing materials, and optical preforms; midstream manufacturers perform fiber drawing, apply primary coatings, conduct bandwidth and attenuation testing, jacket fibers into tight-buffered or loose-tube structures, and assemble them into indoor/outdoor cables for short-reach data communication; downstream participants include telecom operators, data centers, enterprise IT integrators, industrial automation providers, and cable assembly manufacturers who deploy short-distance fibers for high-speed networking, supported by distributors, installers, structured cabling contractors, and data-center cabling OEMs.
Globally, projects include expansions of multimode fiber production lines in North America, China, and Europe to meet rising data-center and enterprise networking demand; several manufacturers are building new drawing towers and MCVD preform facilities to increase OM4/OM5 high-bandwidth output; R&D projects focus on bend-insensitive multimode fiber, higher-temperature-resilient coatings, and next-generation 400G-capable optical fiber systems; telecom and cloud service providers are investing in new urban data centers and campus networks requiring large quantities of short-distance fiber; emerging markets are launching structured-cabling industrial zones and fiber-optic communication parks to localize supply.
2025 Global Market Sales Volume is 11,800 million meters, the Average Global Market Price is 0.29 USD per meter, and the Market Average Gross Profit Margin is 32%.
The short-distance communication optical fiber market is expanding steadily driven by rapid growth in data centers, cloud computing, and enterprise digitalization. Multimode optical fiber remains the preferred medium for high-speed short-reach connectivity due to its low cost, ease of installation, and strong compatibility with datacenter transceivers such as SR, SR4, and SR8 modules.
Asia–Pacific leads global demand as China, India, and Southeast Asia continue investing heavily in cloud infrastructure and campus networks. North America remains a major consumer due to hyperscale datacenter development and enterprise upgrades to 100G/400G architectures. Europe shows stable adoption across telco, industrial, and institutional networks.
Opportunities include OM5 fiber for SWDM systems, bend-insensitive indoor fiber for compact datacenter routing, and ruggedized industrial fibers for Industry 4.0 communication. Risks include competition from passive copper links in ultra-short connections, price pressure from Asian manufacturers, and cyclic fluctuations in telecom spending. Market trends reflect increasing density in datacenter cabling, miniaturized high-fiber-count indoor cables, and laser-optimized multimode fibers with reduced attenuation.
Overall competitiveness depends on manufacturing scale, preform quality, bandwidth performance, and strategic supply agreements with datacenter and telecom infrastructure companies.
As global data demand continues to rise, short-distance optical fiber remains essential for high-speed intra-building and intra-facility transmission.
This report studies the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production, demand, key manufacturers, and key regions.
This report is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the world market for Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber and provides market size (US$ million) and Year-over-Year (YoY) Growth, considering 2025 as the base year. This report explores demand trends and competition, as well as details the characteristics of Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber that contribute to its increasing demand across many markets.
Highlights and key features of the study
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber total production and demand, 2021-2032, (K Meter)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber total production value, 2021-2032, (USD Million)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by region & country, production, value, CAGR, 2021-2032, (USD Million) & (K Meter), (based on production site)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber consumption by region & country, CAGR, 2021-2032 & (K Meter)
U.S. VS China: Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber domestic production, consumption, key domestic manufacturers and share
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by manufacturer, production, price, value and market share 2021-2026, (USD Million) & (K Meter)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by Type, production, value, CAGR, 2021-2032, (USD Million) & (K Meter)
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber production by Application, production, value, CAGR, 2021-2032, (USD Million) & (K Meter)
This report profiles key players in the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market based on the following parameters - company overview, production, value, price, gross margin, product portfolio, geographical presence, and key developments. Key companies covered as a part of this study include Furukawa, Fujikura, Corning, Asahi Kasei, AGC, Toray Group, Taihan, Nanoptics, SCHOTT, Mitsubishi Chemical, etc.
This report also provides key insights about market drivers, restraints, opportunities, new product launches or approvals.
Stakeholders would have ease in decision-making through various strategy matrices used in analyzing the World Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market
Detailed Segmentation:
Each section contains quantitative market data including market by value (US$ Millions), volume (production, consumption) & (K Meter) and average price (US$/Meter) by manufacturer, by Type, and by Application. Data is given for the years 2021-2032 by year with 2025 as the base year, 2026 as the estimate year, and 2027-2032 as the forecast year.
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, By Region:
United States
China
Europe
Japan
South Korea
ASEAN
India
Rest of World
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Type:
Glass Optical Fiber
Plastic Optical Fiber
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Fiber Structure:
Single-mode Optical Fiber
Multi-mode Optical Fiber
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Outer Diameter:
0.25–0.5 mm Micro POF
1.0 mm Standard POF
2.2–3.0 mm Industrial POF
Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market, Segmentation by Application:
Automotive
Industrial Equipment
Consumer Electronics
Telecom Networking Device
Others
Companies Profiled:
Furukawa
Fujikura
Corning
Asahi Kasei
AGC
Toray Group
Taihan
Nanoptics
SCHOTT
Mitsubishi Chemical
Jiangxi Daishing
Jiangsu TX
Jiangsu Etern
Hengtong
Futong
Zhongtian Technology Advanced Materials
Key Questions Answered:
1. How big is the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
2. What is the demand of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
3. What is the year over year growth of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
4. What is the production and production value of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
5. Who are the key producers in the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
6. What are the growth factors driving the market demand?
Table of Contents
137 Pages
- 1 Supply Summary
- 2 Demand Summary
- 3 World Manufacturers Competitive Analysis
- 4 United States VS China VS Rest of the World
- 5 Market Analysis by Type
- 6 Market Analysis by Fiber Structure
- 7 Market Analysis by Outer Diameter
- 8 Market Analysis by Application
- 9 Company Profiles
- 10 Industry Chain Analysis
- 11 Research Findings and Conclusion
- 12 Appendix
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