Metro DWDM- More Than Just Bandwidth, the Potential for Revolutionary New Architectures - A New Report from IGI
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 1999--The Internet that just a few years ago was a few T1s, now consists of vast hubbing centers, interconnected by a swarm of OC-48s (and moving to OC-192s), with many subtending lower level networks. No slackening of this growth of data is in sight. In fact, there are other drivers that will likely not only continue the present growth in transmission requirements, but also increase it!
``DWDM: More than just Bandwidth - the Potential for Revolutionary New Architectures,' a market report just released by IGI Consulting Inc., explores in great detail how DWDM will supply the answer to the bandwidth demand created by the Internet and the several other market drivers that are exacerbating the need for bandwidth. More than this simple supply/demand model, the report describes how this group of technologies is becoming an all-encompassing answer to the convergence of telecommunications disciplines as well as an indispensable competitive tool.
This rapidly expanding area of DWDM has widespread application for ILECs, CLECs, ISPs, Enterprise Networks, and others. This report not only looks at the technology of M-DWDMs, but also explores business rationales for Metro-DWDM (M-DWDM) deployment, evaluates comparative costs to DWDM, and provides a traffic model that can be used to help analyze a given area for M-DWDM application.
World DWDM Systems Market (US$ millions)
Year Market (US$ Millions)
1998 1500
1999 2200
2000 3100
2001 4100
2002 5500
2003 6500
2004 7500
2005 8700
Source: IGI Consulting Inc. 1999
Regardless of the readers' primary points of view - ILEC, IXC, CLEC, ISP, Enterprise NSPs, Network Operator, Equipment Manufacturer, Consultant, or Regulator - DWDM: More than just Bandwidth - the Potential for Revolutionary New Architectures will be your complete marketing guide to this technology of endless potential.
Some Conclusions from the Study:
``Now it is clear that data is going to overtake voice and not only overtake it, but overwhelm it. There are even very real concerns about the continued viability of the existing telephone network in the face of this vast increase in data traffic. Projections now indicate that data traffic will in fact overtake voice in early 2000 (if not sooner).' - ``The bottom line on this traffic growth is summarized in the following three characterizations:
1. ``Optical networking will eventually provide a completely new layer in the public network which will underpin (and to varying extents, replace) existing SONET and ATM layers with a transparent optical backbone that performs switching and routing purely at the optical level. This optical layer will be protocol transparent, supporting the three basic transport services available today, including circuit, packet and virtual circuit services over all optical data paths. This optical layer will be based largely on wavelength division multiplexing and be built from wavelength routers, switches and crossconnects.'
2. ``Until recently, most DWDM systems were packaged with SONET interfaces, meaning that one had to use SONET on all of the wavelengths. This is changing to an open systems approach, and this change is instrumental in the development of the true DWDM Architecture.'
3. ``The competition for local services is going to drive the ILECs toward M-DWDM systems so as to be able to offer multi-protocol wavelength services. Competition may, in fact, be the single biggest factor driving the LECs toward M-DWDM. If they don't provide this type of local access, others (notably the IXCs, some of whom have already started) will provide it, and completely bypass the LECs to some of their largest customers.'
This report is a follow-on to the previous IGI Consulting study on this subject: DWDM - Not For Just Long Distance Anymore. Complements that report with the addition of such current topics as: Open System DWDMs, Terabit Routers, Wavelength Steering, Router Steering, Methods of interconnecting rings, New protocols, New fiber cable options, Design options for building
DWDM networks and Metro DWDM markets.
DWDM: More than just Bandwidth - the Potential for Revolutionary New Architectures' in-depth analysis provides the most of DWDM for metro applications to date.
For further information, contact Sean Buckley, IGI Consulting Inc. toll free at 1-800-323-1088 or 1-617-232-3111 (phone) or 1-617-734-8562 (fax). Email: sbuckley@igigroup.com. Please visit IGI Web site igigroup.com to see the Table of Contents.
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IGI Consulting Inc.
Sean Buckley, 1-800-323-1088 or 1-617-232-3111
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