In his new co-packaged optics market report, we analyze the opportunities for CPO in service provider data centers. Although these data centers have much in common with enterprise data centers, they have special requirements for high data rate/latency sensitive interconnects. For this reason, CIR believes that service provider data centers will become early users of CPO products, which will serve both in the “trunking” environment and to support new types of traffic — AI, VR and the like — that may soon come to dominate telco and other service provider hubs.
This report also discusses what leading players in the CPO space think about service provider data centers as an opportunity.
Service Provider Data Center Forecasts
Inter-building and inter-machine links per data center
Total number of links
CPO-based links
Number of CPO devices shipped
Cost per device ($)
Market ($Millions)
Rack-based links per data center
Total number of links
CPO-based links
Number of CPO devices shipped
Cost per device ($)
Market ($Millions)
Total Market ($ Millions)
Components Broken Out By:
Lasers
Light sources
Cooling devices
Connectors and other
