P-OTS to Make a Big Noise in India, Heavy Reading Finds

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As one of the world's fastest-growing markets, India presents a wide range of opportunities to telecom service providers and their technology suppliers, and packet-optical transport systems (P-OTS) are set to grow in India over the next three years, according to the latest report from Heavy Reading Insider (www.heavyreading.com/insider), a paid research service of Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com).

India Gears Up for an Optical Transport Network Boom focuses on efforts by Indian operators to deploy optical technologies in their aggregation/metro networks, which include Carrier Ethernet and metro Ethernet, and long-haul networks that comprise of DWDM, OTN, ASON and ROADM. It outlines the state of India's OTNs and identifies the key technology trends that are driving optical network investment in India. The report also identifies product developments geared specifically to the Indian telecom market from three technology suppliers.

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"As one of the world's fastest-growing markets, India presents a wide range of opportunities to telecom service providers and their technology suppliers," notes N Arvind, research analyst with Heavy Reading Insider and author of the report. "To accommodate soaring traffic volumes and prevent network bottlenecks, India's network operators must build next-generation networks to carry voice, data and video on the same transport network efficiently."

Indian telcos must balance escalating costs associated with increasing capacity/operations complexity and lagging revenues behind increasing traffic in a challenging economic climate, Arvind says. "Ethernet and optical transport will play an important role in the transformation of networks to meet these challenges. This need for innovation in transport network is a key enabler that can provide high quality of experience. Huge potential exists for vendors that are into both IP and the optical market," he adds.

Key findings of India Gears Up for an Optical Transport Network Boom include the following:

• Ethernet and optical transport will play a significant role in the transformation of India's telecom infrastructure over the next 5 to 10 years.
• India's operators are adopting a hybrid approach to extend the lifespan of existing TDM networks while upgrading to next-gen technologies.
• Packet-optical transport systems will be a growing focus of infrastructure spending in India over the next five years.
• Delays in deployment of 3G mobile services have affected the pace of infrastructure upgrades in India, particularly regarding the buildout of mobile backhaul networks.
• Ethernet is most likely to emerge as the technology of choice for mobile backhaul buildouts in India.

India Gears Up for an Optical Transport Network Boom is available as part of an annual single-user subscription (12 monthly issues) to Heavy Reading Insider, priced at $1,995. Individual reports are available for $900 (single-user license).

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About Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com)

Heavy Reading is an independent research organization offering deep analysis of emerging telecom trends to network operators, technology suppliers, and investors. Its product portfolio includes in-depth reports that address critical next-generation technology and service issues, market trackers that focus on the telecom industry's most critical technology sectors, exclusive worldwide surveys of network operator decision-makers that identify future purchasing and deployment plans, and a rich array of custom and consulting services that give clients the market intelligence needed to compete successfully in the $4 trillion global telecom industry. As a telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lrcn.com), Heavy Reading contributes to the only integrated business information platform serving the global communications industry.

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