Planar Waveguide Circuit (PWC) Module Global Market Review & Forecast (2010-2015)

ElectroniCast Consultants, a leading market research & technology forecast consultancy addressing the fiber optics communications industry, announced the release of a new market forecast and analysis of the global market consumption and technology trends of Planar Waveguide Circuit (PWC) Modules, which are used in optical communication networks. 

According to ElectroniCast Consultants, the global consumption value of planar waveguide circuit (PWC) modules will increase with strongly rising quantity growth partially offset by declining average prices. The consumption value of integrated multifunction PWC modules held nearly 60% of the market share in 2010 and in 2015, the integrated multifunction PWC modules are forecast to hold over 70% of the worldwide consumption value.

“The trend is for discrete-circuit (single-function) based PWC modules to be displaced by equivalent performance (multiple-function) planar waveguide modules,” said Stephen Montgomery, president of International Business at ElectroniCast. “The combination of the packaging and integrated optics aspects of PWC technology provides for an attractive and powerful technology for modules, which will hold multiple (two or more) functions (integrated multifunction devices); thereby, reducing size, weight, and cost versus larger, bulkier discrete (single-function) modules,” Montgomery concluded. 

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This 380-page market forecast report is available immediately from ElectroniCast Consultants. For detailed information on this or other services provided by ElectroniCast, please contact Theresa Hosking, Marketing/Sales; thosking@electronicastconsultants.com  

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