Telecommunications

The global market for Broadcast Switchers is projected to reach about US$1.7 billion by 2018, primarily driven by the broadcasting industry’s transition from analog to digital broadcasting, rapid proliferation of high-definition television (HDTV) and increasing automation of TV broadcasting. Widespread technology developments and robust demand from developing markets also bodes well for the market.

The global shipments of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards is projected to reach 8.13 billion units by 2018, largely driven by rapid proliferation of mobile networks into newer geographical regions, transition to latest mobile technologies such as LTE and 4G networks in developed economies and 3G/3.5G in developing nations, and massive adoption of smartphones across the world.

Worldwide smartphone markets continue to achieve significant growth as devices access the Internet, achieve almost universal penetration, and support machine to machine (M to M) communications. Feature sets continue to evolve. Over one-half of all smartphones in the global market are made by Apple and Samsung. Samsung supplies Apple with some of the components used in the iPhone and iPad, making Samsung a major market participant. Even as Apple defeated Samsung in a patent dispute, the smartphone vendors are not likely to see much change, as they both continue to lead the market. The study documents the 2011 and H1 2012 quarterly shipments in dollars and units. It provides regional shipment analysis by company, a far more granular look at the industry than is available anywhere else at any price.

The global market for Mobile Phone Accessories is projected to reach US$84.6 billion by the year 2018, primarily driven by robust growth in smartphone sales across the globe. Growing desire among Mobile Phone users to enhance functionality and performance of their phones and the trend towards personalization of Mobile Phones, especially with regard to device appearance are also expected to generate opportunities for growth over the next few years. Robust demand from Asia-Pacific also augurs well for the future of this market.

Global market for Bit Error Rate Testers is projected to reach US$966 million by the year 2017. Growth will be primarily driven by the explosion in transmission capacity and the ensuing increased focus on quantifying the reliability of the complete transmission system. Continuous product developments designed to address the needs for testing faster bit rates will additionally drive growth in the marketplace.

Global market for Fiber Optic Components is projected to reach US$42 billion by the year 2017. Growth will be driven by the continuously growing demand for bandwidth and the ensuing need for fibre-based broadband, robust growth in mobile internet, and stronger FTTx related deployments in developing Asian countries, among others.

The growing demand for mobile broadband services is driving an ever increasing number of commercial LTE network deployments. This surge has seen the number of LTE subscriptions already surpass 7 Million subscriptions worldwide, and over 300+ commercial LTE user device launches. As the market gained momentum, the LTE industry witnessed revenues for over $ 19.1 Billion in 2011 alone. Projected to grow at a CAGR of over 86 %, the industry will account for $ 410 Billion by the end of 2016.

Fumio Futami at Tamagawa University, Quantum ICT Research Institute, (Director: Osamu Hirota, 6-1-1 Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida, Tokyo, Japan), announced the world's first transmission of the stream cipher by Yuen 2000 protocol (Y-00) at the bit rate of 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km. Y-00 is a physical cipher that has a possibility to avoid the decipher and hence it is a promising candidate to realize secure networks. The key to success of high capacity transmission was the use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) scheme. Four lights with different wavelengths each carrying 10-Gbit/sec Y-00 encrypted optical signals were multiplexed into an optical fiber to attain the aggregate capacity of 40 Gbit/sec. In the experiment, it has been proved that the transmission capacity of Y-00 signals was increased by employing the WDM scheme. The capacity can be further increased with use of more number of lights with different wavelengths. The result made a step closer to practical use of Y-00 stream cipher in the real network services.

The worldwide demand for C- and Ku-band Satellite Transponders is projected to reach 7,840 36-MHz TPEs by the year 2017, owing to rapidly expanding DTH, digital TV, UAV communications, consumer broadband and 3D markets and increased governmental expenditure on military satellite navigation, positioning systems, and space exploration.

Driven by increasing global demand for faster transmission speeds in computer networking, triggered by proliferation of bandwidth heavy multimedia content and increased adoption of advanced networking technologies such as data warehousing, cloud computing, and server virtualization, the world market for 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is projected to reach about $5.9 billion by 2017. Rapid adoption among both data centers & enterprise networks and commercial network operators augurs well for the future of this market.