OpVista touts ROADM rank.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

Fiber Optics and Communications, January, 2007

OpVista Inc., a provider of network capacity and modular reconfigurability at low first-cost, is now ranked as having the third-largest market share of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) in the world, according to a new study by Infonetics Research. The market research report can be found at www.infonetics.com. In the report for 3Q 2006, OpVista is reported to have a 10 percent share in the category, behind Cisco at 31 percent and Fujitsu at 27 percent. In North America, OpVista has a 14 percent share, while Cisco has 31 percent and Fujitsu has 32 percent. In addition, the report finds that there is the beginning of a "stronger wave of WDM in the metro" area, setting up "the need for WDM ROADM switching as ring systems and the services they support...

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