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To: Roger Brown who wrote (7109)	3/5/2000 12:15:00 PM
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cbs.marketwatch.com RHK sees huge growth in optical components By Julie Rannazzisi, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 9:47 AM ET Mar 5, 2000 NewsWatch NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Telecom research firm RHK said Sunday it expects the worldwide market for optical components to grow from $6.6 billion in 1999 to over $23 billion by 2003. The tremendous growth in this market is being driven by surging demand for speedy transmissions, strong traffic growth and significant advances in price-to-performance ratios, RHK said. The San Francisco-based research firm expects the fastest growth to occur in the terrestrial DWDM segment of the market, which it predicts will expand by over 50 percent per year. "All the market segments that RHK analyzed are benefiting from strong growth in traffic, which has surpassed voice traffic in volume," said Jay Liebowitz, director of RHK's Optical Components service. "We will continue to see service providers deploy additional capacity as rapidly as possible through 2003 in an effort to keep pace with demand and competition," Liebowitz added. RHK will present these findings at the Optical Fiber Communications conference, which takes place in Baltimore this week. News from the trade show may boost shares of fiber-optic equipment makers this week. JDS Uniphase (JDSU: news, msgs) is expected to introduce a new product at the conference.