Global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Market Growth 2026-2032
Description
The global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market size is predicted to grow from US$ 3348 million in 2025 to US$ 5038 million in 2032; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.2% from 2026 to 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.
LP Information, Inc. (LPI) ' newest research report, the “Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber sales for 2026 through 2032. With Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyzes the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market by product type, application, key manufacturers and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Glass Optical Fiber
Plastic Optical Fiber
Segmentation by Fiber Structure:
Single-mode Optical Fiber
Multi-mode Optical Fiber
Segmentation by Outer Diameter:
0.25–0.5 mm Micro POF
1.0 mm Standard POF
2.2–3.0 mm Industrial POF
Segmentation by Application:
Automotive
Industrial Equipment
Consumer Electronics
Telecom Networking Device
Others
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analysing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
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 Addressed in this Report
What is the 10-year outlook for the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
What factors are driving Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market growth, globally and by region?
Which technologies are poised for the fastest growth by market and region?
How do Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market opportunities vary by end market size?
How does Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber break out by Type, by Application?
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
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.
LP Information, Inc. (LPI) ' newest research report, the “Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber sales for 2026 through 2032. With Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyzes the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market by product type, application, key manufacturers and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Glass Optical Fiber
Plastic Optical Fiber
Segmentation by Fiber Structure:
Single-mode Optical Fiber
Multi-mode Optical Fiber
Segmentation by Outer Diameter:
0.25–0.5 mm Micro POF
1.0 mm Standard POF
2.2–3.0 mm Industrial POF
Segmentation by Application:
Automotive
Industrial Equipment
Consumer Electronics
Telecom Networking Device
Others
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analysing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
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 Addressed in this Report
What is the 10-year outlook for the global Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market?
What factors are driving Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market growth, globally and by region?
Which technologies are poised for the fastest growth by market and region?
How do Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber market opportunities vary by end market size?
How does Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber break out by Type, by Application?
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Table of Contents
129 Pages
- *This is a tentative TOC and the final deliverable is subject to change.*
- 1 Scope of the Report
- 2 Executive Summary
- 3 Global by Company
- 4 World Historic Review for Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber by Geographic Region
- 5 Americas
- 6 APAC
- 7 Europe
- 8 Middle East & Africa
- 9 Market Drivers, Challenges and Trends
- 10 Manufacturing Cost Structure Analysis
- 11 Marketing, Distributors and Customer
- 12 World Forecast Review for Short Distance Communication Optical Fiber by Geographic Region
- 13 Key Players Analysis
- 14 Research Findings and Conclusion
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