About Light Counting

LightCounting is a market research and consulting company focused on aiding executive management decision making at system and component companies involved with high-speed communications in the Datacom, Telecom, CATV, FTTx, and consumer markets.

We provide detailed forecasts and market analysis of industry trends, technology development and market opportunities. We analyze both the supply-side and demand-side for communications interconnects. Our analysis is based on confidential sales data provided by leading component and module suppliers and offers a unique port-based view of the industry.

Our reports and service products are designed to help executives plan and run their businesses. We support decision making based on facts and data with realistic projections. Our research covers the entire supply chain including components, modules, and systems.

Our analyst team includes industry veterans with expertise in optical components, optical systems, communication semiconductors, and network design, deployment and operation.

Market Forecast Report(December 2011)

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....More information

Storage Networking Report (September 2011)

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....More information

Market Update Report (September 2011)

Sales of optical components and modules increased by more than 30% in 2010, raising concertns of a potential market bubble. Slow start for the market in early 2011 added fire to these speculations. however, current situation is very different....More information

The State of the Optical Communications Industry: On a Path to Sustainable Profitability (July 2011)

Valuations and profitability across the whole supply chain of the optical communication industry improved substantially in 2010...More information

100 Gbps Optical Food Chain

The development of DP-QPSK with coherent detection to support 100G DWDM line side transmission rates will prove to be a transformational...More information

The Active Optical Cable Market Analysis & Forecast Report (March 2011)

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...More information

Optical Communications Market Forecast Report and Database (March 2011)

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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

• January 19, 2012 CES Madness - Now Get Ready for the Consumer Bandwidth Tsunami read more »
  December 7, 2011 Tested by an Earthquake and a Flood in 2011, the Industry is Poised to Navigate ...read more »
  November 30, 2011 SC11 Wrap Up: Japan takes the HPC lead; FDR takes the spotlight...read more »
  November 15, 2011 Flood in Thailand Will Reshape the Landscape of the Global Optical Components ...read more »
  October 27, 2011 State of the High Speed Interconnect Industry- Optical and Copper Webinar... read more »
  September 26, 2011 10 Gb iSCSI and FCoE Will Not Strongly Challenge Fibre Channel for years ... read more »
• September 16, 2011 Market for optical component and modules maintains momentum for growth despite slow... read more »
• August 1, 2011 Will echoes of the dot-com bubble resonate through the industry supply chain?... read more »
• July 18, 2011 The Global optical communication industry is on a path to sustainable profitability... read more »
• June 20, 2011 Sales of optical transceivers fell 5% after setting a new record in Q4 2011... read more »
• June 8, 2011 Growth in sales of 40G and 100G products continues despite... read more »
• May 31, 2011 A Look Inside TIA 2011 read more »
• May 23, 2011 Interop Report: 10GBASE-T, 10G SPF+, 40G QSFP shows big with new switches.read more »
• April 18, 2011 Because Fibre Channel is tied to structured data, will it miss out on web/cloud storage growth? read more »
• April 11, 2011Growth in sales of active optical cables continues for the infiniband ... read more »
• March 28, 2011 Optical communications industry is well positioned for growth in 2011-2015 despite... read more »
• March 20, 2011 LightCounting hosts OFC2011 Dinner and OFC Market Watch Panel... read more »
• March 6, 2011 Global optical communications market enters 2011... read more »
• February 6, 2011 Optical components and systems companies stock ... read more »
• January 24, 2011 Market for Optical Transceivers increased by 30% last year... read more »
• January 18, 2011 LightCounting Forecasts over 300% CAGR for 10GBASE-T Port Shipments from 2009-2014 read more »
• January 12, 2011 Latest Developments in AOC and 10GBASE-T Markets read more »