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Our Analysis Team
Vladimir Kozlov: Founder and CEO
Brad Smith: Senior Vice President
Scott Schube: Senior Analyst
Latest Reports
Optical Communications Market Forecast: Tested by an Earthquake, a Tsunami and a Flood in 2011, the Industry is Poised to Navigate Well Through Macroeconomic Uncertainty in 2012-2015 (December 2011)
Abstract: The forecast report presents analysis of business and CapEx of the top 12 service providers, as well as trends in networking equipment market and business of leading equipment manufacturers. The report also offers a detailed forecast for optical components and modules... More information »
Storage Networking Report (September 2011)
Abstract: With 1 Gb Ethernet, users only accessed the local area network (LAN). They were able to access files (given the right security access) stored on the internal storage of servers or other clients, or they could access files through specialized network attached storage (NAS) devices... More information »
Market Update Report (September 2011)
Abstract: Sales of optical components and modules increased by more than 30% in 2010, raising concerns of a potential market bubble. Slow start for the market in early 2011 added fire to these speculations. however, current situation is very different from the market bubble... More information »
The State of the Optical Communications Industry: On a Path to Sustainable Profitability (July 2011)
Abstract: Valuations and profitability across the whole supply chain of the optical communication industry improved substantially in 2010. However, there is still a wide gap between companies like Google, which generate high profits taking advantage of the network at almost no charge, and the rest of the industry... More information »
The 100 Gbps Food Chain (June 2011)
Abstract: The development of DP-QPSK with coherent detection to support 100G DWDM line side transmission rates will prove to be a transformational technology in carrier networks. 100G will become the building block transmission rate for future networks, and as the first optical transmission technology based on digital signal processing, will ... More information »
Active Optical Cables 2011 (April 2011)
Abstract: Active optical cables (AOCs) emerged on the communications and consumer electronics scenes only very recently, the result of colloboration among key market players like IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems to eliminate shortcomings in existing transceiver and copper interconnect solutions... More information »
10GBASE-T to Dominate Gigabit Ethernet...But When? (January 2011)
Abstract: 10GBASE-T (or IEEE 802.3an-2006) is the copper PHY (or Physical Layer) interconnect, which transforms logical data packets into raw bits that can be transmitted onto a wire, for 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) that the market has been waiting to mature and find the right... More information »
The LightCounting team offers custom consulting services tailored to the specific needs of each client when additional analysis beyond the numbers is required. Maybe you are contemplating launching a new product, expanding into a new geographic market, business or market segment, or planning for a new product launch... we can help.
As data speed continue to increase past 40G and 100Gbps, physics dictate eventually all high-speed interconnects transitioning to optical technologies that interconnects chips or systems. We focus on the markets, products, and technologies at the boundary-line tension of the "Optical/Electronic border " specifically in the area of High-Speed Systems Interconnects (HSSI).
This includes transceivers and interconnects in: Sonet/SDH, GbE, FTTH, Infiniband, Fiber Channel, CWDM/DWDM, serial and parallel optics, active cables, silicon photonics, optical manufacturing and 10GBASE-T.
Our domain experience and expertise spans optical communications systems, optical components, communications semiconductors. Our team has several PhDs and senior executives collectively with over 45 years industry experience at start-ups to major companies in optical and semiconductor communications and over 35 years of experience in market research and consulting.
LightCounting's clients include nearly every company in these product spaces form start-up to major companies such as:
LightCounting offers four types of consulting research:
- Custom forecasts and market sizing
- Strategic and product consulting
- Primary research and surveys
- Client engagement days
Typical consulting engagement may include:
- Market and segment analysis, sizing and forecasting
- Custom cut or modification to a forecast or market size
- New product analysis, messaging, pre-announcement, and new product launches
- Strategic analysis & planning
- Market, product, and competitive analysis
- Manufacturing strategies
- Strategic partnership strategies
- Providing independent industry analyst perspectives for internal management or customer road shows and marketing material
- Providing technical and market due diligence to investment firms evaluating investments
- Merger and acquisition analysis, due diligence and strategy planning
- Create custom "White papers" and "Position Papers" analyzing specific products, market segments or technologies
- Customer or market survey
- On-site analyst days to present to your executive team or sales force
To start a project, we jointly formulate a Statement-of-Work that outlines what you want and details of what LightCounting will provide. LightCounting then submits a proposal, time-line of deliverables and pricing. Upon receipt of 50% of the project value, the LightCounting team will start. Regular phone conversations and updates are encouraged throughout the project as the more interactive the project is the more likely of success.