Lawrence Gasman is the founder of CIR and has been tracking commercial opportunities in high-speed networking business since 1985. Over the years, he has covered both the optical networking equipment and optical components market and his recent market analysis work has focused on optical data centers, embedded optics, 5G infrastructure and quantum networking. Gasman’s consulting …
5G Fronthaul Network Suppliers Showcasing Products at OFC, Market Forecasts Published by CIR The fronthaul portion of 5G infrastructure carries data from the baseband units to remote radio head. According to CIR’s report Optical Networking Opportunities in the 5G Infrastructure Market 2019-2028, the 5G fronthaul will result in new revenues for both cable and equipment …
CIR has just issued a new report on the global 5G network infrastructure market. This blog discusses a few points from the study. As with the previous generations of mobile technology, 5G mobile will take a great leap forward in terms of the services it can support. In the case of 5G, the claim is …
Business Opportunities Abound in Global 5G Network Infrastructure Market Read More »
The CIR team has recently returned from the OFC trade show where much fuss was made about the opportunities for fiber optics in the 5G infrastructure and C-RAN. CIR has also just published a report on “C-RAN Deployment: Market Opportunity Analysis – 2018 and Beyond,” in which we also extol the revenue potential of the …
Lawrence Gasman’s presentation at OFC 2018 on 400 Gbps MSAs is available for download Click here: 400 Gbps MSAs in 2023
The fastest growing market for active optical cable (AOCs) in Asia is in rapidly developing countries such as Thailand and Vietnam where large data centers are being deployed for the first time. However, China stands out as not only being the largest market for AOCs in Asia, but also because it is becoming a manufacturing …
In April 2017, D-Wave closed its first $30 million investment in convertible notes and then received a conditional commitment from Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) for an additional $20 million. The conditions for this second $20 million have now been met and this new money will now flow to D-Wave Systems. In addition, …
Research for CIR’s latest report on quantum technology, “Quantum Computing: Applications, Software and End-User Markets,” has given us important insights into which industry sectors will be the first commercial adopters of quantum computing and why. By “commercial” we simply refer here to quantum computers deployed outside of the research and defense communities. These two communities …
CIR’s latest forecasts of the quantum repeater market are shown in the Exhibit below. The numbers come from “Quantum Networking Deployments, Components and Opportunities – 2017-2026,” a report that CIR published in October. Based on these forecasts, CIR has concluded that in about five years, revenues generated from quantum repeaters will represent a significant and …
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CIR’s recently issued report looks at the market potential for network transmission opportunities from the advent of the quantum internet