Market Overview - OTDR - Fiber Optic Test Devices
Editor - Stephen Montgomery, ElectroniCast
This ElectroniCast recently published an extensive review of 2011 and a 5-year (2012-2016) forecast of the of worldwide market consumption value; volume (quantity) and average selling price of handheld (portable) OTDR devices with the initial “dedicated capacity” or with a module, as well as the supplementary or secondary (add-on) modules for hand-held fiber optic test device units.
The market review and forecast is segmented into the following geographic regions:
· North America
· Europe
· Asia Pacific Region (APAC)
o People’s Republic of China (PRC)
o Rest of Asia Pacific
· Rest of the World
The market forecast data are segmented by the following functions:
· Consumption Value (US$, million)
· Quantity (number/by 1,000 units)
· Average Selling Prices (ASP $, each)
The market is also segmented into the following major application categories:
· Telecommunications
· Private Enterprise Networks
· Cable TV
· Military
· - Specialty (Sensor, Industrial, Laboratory, rental units, other applications and non-specific/miscellaneous)
Finally, market forecast data are segmented into the following major product categories:
· Handheld OTDR devices, including pre-installed (initial) capability (embedded/dedicated or module); this category is limited to portable (compact/handheld) optical test units/devices that are initially purchased for the main purpose of the OTDR function
· Supplementary OTDR modules, which can be added-on (plug into) existing handheld optical test modular units (devices)
Fiber Optic Test Units, which are initially, sold as OTDR device units with dedicated OTDR capability or sold with an OTDR module are considered OTDR device units.
Some hand-held OTDR device units are “dedicated” OTDR devices, which have the OTDR operational capability built-in (embedded) to the device; and some OTDR device units are modular, which accommodate one or more modules to provide the device with the OTDR capability. ElectroniCast quantifies the “dedicated” device units and the modular device units in the same category. We quantify the OTDR module device units with an (one) OTDR module attached. (Additional OTDR modules, which may be added-on to the modular hand-held device, are not counted/quantified in the OTDR device unit category; they are counted in the supplementary module category).
The (initial-capability) modules that are counted in the hand-held OTDR device unit category are NOT “double-counted” in the supplementary (add-on) module category in the ElectroniCast market forecast.
The global consumption value of hand-held OTDR device units, as well as OTDR modules used in hand-held fiber optic test units was $248.65 million last year in 2011. The consumption value is forecast to increase to substantially through the forecast period, with strongly rising quantity growth partially offset by a continuing decline of average prices.
Helped along substantially by consumption in China, the Asia Pacific region (APAC) is forecast increase in relative market share, driven mostly by countries throughout the region that are bringing fiber closer to the drop-areas (for example FTTH). The Rest of the World region (including Central/South America, Africa and Middle East) stimulated by favorable national economic policies and the trend toward telecom liberalization also has an impressive forecast of annual growth of more than 2x.
Note: Market forecast data in this study report refers to consumption (use) for a particular calendar year; therefore, this data is not cumulative data.
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