Fiber Optic Industry Monthly Reports

The monthly report provides summaries from recent ElectroniCast market/technology analysis, as well as several industry news items of interest…

Published:              Last week of each month

Text Pages:           Typically 20-30 pages

Deliver:                 PDF File via E-Mail

Fee:                      $1,200 per year (12-issues)

Subscription:          Contact me at: stephen_montgomery@electronicastconsultants.com

Note: Only one PDF file will be sent to the individual client; however, clients may forward (e-mail) copies to other individuals within their own company/organization.

Typical Outline:

(1)   ElectroniCast – Fiber Optic Oriented Market and Technology Overview (5-8 pages)

(2)   ElectroniCast – Fiber Optic Oriented Market and Technology Overview (5-8 pages)

(3)   Fiber Optic Industry News (10-15 pages)

a.      Venture Capital or Financial News

b.      New Products

c.      Fiber Optic Deployment/Installations

d.      Technology News

About ElectroniCast

ElectroniCast Consultants specializes in forecasting trends in communication networks and in the products used in those networks.  This includes technology forecasting, markets and applications forecasting, strategic planning and consulting.

ElectroniCast Consultants, as a technology-based independent forecasting firm, serves industrial companies, trade associations, government agencies, communication and data network companies and the financial community.  Reduction of the risk of major investment decisions is the main benefit provided.  ElectroniCast's goal is to understand the challenges and opportunities facing clients and to provide timely, accurate information for strategic planning.

Ekinops Introduces 100G Transport and Aggregation for Metro, Regional and Long-Haul Networks

Ekinops Introduces 100G Transport and Aggregation for Metro, Regional and Long-Haul Networks

PARIS, October 12, 2011 – Ekinops, a leading supplier of next-generation optical equipment, today announced two key products that enable telecommunications service providers to transport traffic at 100 gigabits per second and keep up with the ever-increasing bandwidth needs of their customers.

The 100G transponder and muxponder will provide for both native transport of 100GbE as well as aggregation of lower rates into 100GbE network connections.  They share the same hardware and highly-programmable architecture delivering maximum flexibility for deployment and network evolution.  These capabilities allow service providers to both address their customers’ needs for high speed Ethernet services and to increase their networks’ overall capacity for lower rate connections.  Ekinops’ newest products will be commercially available by the end of 2011.

The new products are part of the Ekinops 360 product line and can be utilized in new deployments, to upgrade existing Ekinops 360 deployments, or to upgrade other third party line systems.  The Ekinops 360 transport system provides DWDM and CWDM (Dense and Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing) on a single platform for metro, regional and long-haul transport.

Both systems leverage the capabilities of Ekinops’ T-Chip (Transport on  Chip) technology, which concentrates the equipment’s transport intelligence into a highly compact and efficient design.  This serves to reduce costs, footprint, ongoing power consumption and manufacturing delivery times to customers.

In this case, the T-Chip provides industry-leading Forward Error Correction (FEC), maximizing the systems’ distance performance and reducing latency, so that service providers can take full advantage of the massive capacity that the transponder and muxponder provide.

The T-Chip also enables Ekinops’ new products to more efficiently aggregate lower rate traffic and work effectively with a broad range of protocol types.

“The T-Chip will help us provide a better performing and more flexible 100G solution,” said Rob Adams, Vice President of Global Marketing.  “Just as Ekinops has led the industry in FEC and lower rate traffic aggregation at 10G, we will do the same with 100G.  And because the T-Chip is our own design and programmable, we can offer enhanced performance and superior aggregation very cost-effectively and ahead of the rest of the industry.”

The Ekinops 100G products support the CFP 100G client interface standards and utilize industry standard DP-QPSK line modulation with a coherent receiver.

The Ekinops 360 platform also offers industry-leading features such as DynaMux®, dynamic multiplexing functionality that allows multiplexing of any mix of protocols over a single wavelength and over any protocol on that wavelength; the industry’s leading forward error correction, DynaFEC®, enabling longer reach using software; and WaveBonding®, the industry’s only low-cost, long-reach 40G technology that reutilizes your investment in 10G when migrating to 40G.

About Ekinops             Ekinops is a leading designer and supplier of next generation optical transport equipment for service providers and enterprise customers. The Ekinops 360 Dynamic, Multi-Reach Transport System provides DWDM and CWDM on a single platform that addresses Metro, Regional, and Long Haul applications. The Ekinops 360 system relies on the innovative, programmable Ekinops T-Chip® (Transport-on-a-Chip technology) that enables fast, flexible and cost-effective service delivery for building high speed optical networks. Using the Ekinops 360 carrier-grade system, operators can increase transport capacity of their networks – CWDM, DWDM, Ethernet, ESCON, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, and uncompressed video (HD-SDI, SD-SDI, ASI) – through the industry’s most efficient aggregation of services. The company is headquartered in Lannion, France, with offices in Europe, the USA and Asia. For more information, visit Ekinops at www.ekinops.net .

UTStarcom Wins EPON Contract to Support Smart Grid in Ningxia Province

BEIJING, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- UTStarcom Holdings Corp. ("UTStarcom" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: UTSI) a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators, today announced that it has won an Ethernet Passive Optical Network ("EPON") contract to strengthen Ningxia Electric Power Company's ("Ningxia Electric") integrated electric distribution system and communication platform.
Since 2010, Ningxia Electric has accelerated the construction of its integrated electric distribution system and communication platform as the Chinese government spurs the development of smart grid networks across the country. By 2012, Ningxia Electric expects the integrated electric distribution system and communication platform to be operational in five cities within Ningxia province.
"Our EPON solution enhances Ningxia Electric's distribution system and communication platform, integrating more functionality at a low cost of entry," said UTStarcom Chief Executive Officer Jack Lu. "We are encouraged by the new contract and are confident we will be able to capitalize on similar opportunities in the future as China's government continues to promote the digitalization and automation of the state grid network."
UTStarcom's EPON solution helps electric companies build high-quality and reliable communication channels. In addition, it collects data and provides optical fiber to end users to meet the various business needs of customers. The Company plans on booking this equipment-based sale in the third quarter of 2011.

About UTStarcom Holdings Corp.
UTStarcom is a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and Broadband for cable and telecom operators. The Company sells its solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunications and cable markets around the world. UTStarcom enables its customers to rapidly deploy revenue-generating access services using their existing infrastructure, while providing a migration path to cost-efficient, end-to-end IP networks.
Founded in 1991, listed on the NASDAQ in 2000, the Company has its operational headquarters in Beijing, China and research and development operations in China and India. For more information about UTStarcom, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.utstar.com.

About Ningxia Electric Power Company
Ningxia Electric Power Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the State Grid Corporation. Its main businesses include building, operating and managing the grid network in Ningxia province. Ningxia Electric Power Company has 151 substations each with more than 110kV and transformer volt-ampere capacity of 31.72 million gigabit. In 2010, Ningxia Electric sold 45.5 billion Kwh of electricity.

Forward-Looking Statements
This release includes forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the customer's intent to deploy UTStarcom's EPON products in new cities; the number of anticipated cities; and the timing of the implementation. These statements are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These risks include economic issues in the identified geographic markets; delays in product deployment; actual number of cities of implementation less than anticipated; and changes in government regulation and licensing requirements, as well as risk factors identified in its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, 10K/A, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, 6-K and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is in a period of significant transition and in the conduct of its business is exposed to additional risks as a result. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to the Company as of the date of this release, which may change, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.
SOURCE UTStarcom, Inc.

For further information: In China: Jing Ou-Yang in Investor Relations of UTStarcom Holdings Corp. at Tel: +86-10-85205153 or Email: jouyang@utstar.com; Agustin Bautista of Ogilvy Financial, Beijing at Tel: +86-10-8520-6166 or Email: utsi@ogilvy.com; In the U.S.: Jessica Barist Cohen of Ogilvy Financial, New York at Tel: +1-646-460-9989 or Email: utsi@ogilvy.com

Latin America Market Forecast – LED Lighting

According to ElectroniCast, the consumption value of LED lamps in the Latin American region is forecast to reach $348.95 million in the year 2015, representing an average annual growth rate of 42.5 percent (2010-2015).

Lima, Peru – September 22, 2011  -- ElectroniCast Consultants, a leading market research consultancy serving the photonics industry, today announced their 5-year market forecast of the Latin American consumption of light emitting diode (LED) lamps in solid-state lighting (SSL) General Lighting applications. 

According to ElectroniCast, the Latin American region consumption value of LED lamps, which are used in SSL General Lighting, reached $59.48 million in 2010; consumption value will increase at an average annual growth rate of 42.5 to $348.95 million in 2015.  The consumption value will increase with strongly rising quantity growth partially offset by declining average prices in some product categories.

“ElectroniCast Consultants has a regional office in Lima Peru, and we have seen first-hand an impressive increase in the use of LED-based lighting in Lima over the last couple of years, as well as LED-based lighting products on the shelves in several retail stores.  Countries in Latin America have managed to resist the global economic and financial crisis more successfully than in many other regions of the world,” said Stephen Montgomery, president of International Business.

The market for LED Lights in Latin America is new and it is still open for new companies and brands and ElectroniCast is helping clients enter to market in the region. According to the new report, Brazil will take control of the leadership role in relative market share in LED lighting implementation; however, Mexico is forecast to aggressively pick-up on the deployment of government-installed LED-based streetlights.

In anticipation of infrastructure lighting improvements for the World Cup (2014) and the Olympics (2016), and according to ElectroniCast, LED consumption value in Brazil is forecast to increase at a regional leading annual growth rate of 46.7 percent (2010-2015); of which 51.3 percent will be attributed to street-lighting (roadway/tunnel), parking-lot/campus and similar (lamp-type) outdoor general lighting. 

The ElectroniCast market forecast of Latin American consumption is presented for five major lamp-type categories. The forecast is also segment by the following countries/ sub-region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and Rest of Latin America.

This market forecast report is available immediately from ElectroniCast Consultants (fee $4,200). For detailed information on this or other services provided by ElectroniCast, please contact Theresa Hosking, Marketing/Sales; thosking@electronicastconsultants.com  

(Telephone/USA: 707/275-9397)

ElectroniCast Consultants – www.electronicast.com specializes in forecasting trends in technology forecasting, markets and applications forecasting, strategic planning and consulting. ElectroniCast Consultants, as a technology-based independent forecasting firm, serves industrial companies, trade associations, government agencies, communication and data network companies and the financial community.  Reduction of the risk of major investment decisions is the main benefit provided.  ElectroniCast Consultants’ goal is to understand the challenges and opportunities facing clients and to provide timely, accurate information for strategic planning.