Telecom Lead America: Huawei, Ciena, Alcatel-Lucent and
NEC are the top players in 40 Gbps DWDM wavelength market in first quarter of
2012.

The total WDM market grew 5 percent in Q1 to $1.7
billion.

Even as the broader optical transport market declined,
the demand for 40 Gbps DWDM remained steady. 

The number of 40 Gbps DWDM wavelength shipments grew
nearly 60 percent year-over-year in Q1 2012.

The optical transport equipment market had a very rough start
to the year declining nearly 5 percent year-over-year in 1Q12,” said Jimmy Yu,
vice president of Optical Transport research at Dell’Oro Group. 

But on a bright side, we were happy to see the demand
for 40 gigabit DWDM systems remain high.  We estimate that in 1Q12,
shipments of 40 gigabit line cards grew almost 60 percent helping the DWDM
market to hold another quarter of positive year-over-year growth,” Yu added.

The total WDM market grew 5 percent in Q1 to $1.7 billion
with positive growth contribution from 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps wavelength
shipments. 40 Gbps wavelengths contributed approximately 30 percent of the
total WDM revenue in the quarter.

                       
Worldwide 40 Gbps Wavelength Shipment Share in 1Q12

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