Intelligent Hardware - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article

Telecommunications, April, 2001

Infonetics Research kicked of a new quarterly report on what it calls intelligent optical network hardware. Global revenues for this product category, which hit $5.37 billion last year, will jump to $8.52 billion this year. This generation of intelligent hardware is distinguished from earlier hardware because it is designed for both voice and data; supports ring, star and mesh topologies; is remotely configurable; can provision services and scales efficiently.

Infonetics segments this market into five categories, ranging from the last mile to the core and extending to submarine networks.