1.0 General Market Trends
There is a current trend in the metro market for more optical storage technologies. Evidence of this is that ADVA, Ciena and Nortel have now become a part of EMC’s Select Partner Program. They are providing distance extension technology for ESCON, Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet.
According to the TIA, spending in the US telecom industry rose almost nine percent in 2005 to more than $850 billion. A projection for 2006 is that it will increase again by more than 10 percent. Hot markets within the industry include "wireless transport services, Internet access, public network equipment and professional services in support of public network and enterprise equipment." One of the conclusions from the TIA study is that demand for fiber is up due to rising data traffic in the network and that in 2006, fiber revenue will climb to about half of what it was in 2000 and "will be a catalyst for growth rather than for decline over the next four years."
There were two very significant events for LAN technology that happened in 2005. Gigabit Ethernet passed FAST Ethernet in number of modular switch ports deployed and driven by deployment of VoIP, wireless LAN APs and IP video cameras, PoE became a mainstream feature installed in networks.
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