JULY 16, 2008 -- ElectroniCast Consultants (search for ElectroniCast) has released a new market forecast and analysis of the global consumption and technology trends of fiber-optic fusion splice machines. According to the study results, the global consumption value of fiber-optic fusion splice equipment in 2007 was $308 million. It is expected to increase to $440 million in 2012.
"The number of fusion splice equipment used in the production of fiber-optic components and devices is forecasted to increase at a steady 11.5% over the forecast period [2007-2012]," reports Stephen Montgomery, president of ElectroniCast--APAC and the director of the study. "Another interesting trend we continue to see [is] the customer demand of very small (handheld size) splicers for field installable connector/termination and displacement of mechanical splicing," he notes.
"Surprisingly however, marketing/sales efforts of most fusion splice equipment manufactures and their channel-partners is strangely low-key and not as pro-active as it could be," contends Montgomery.
ElectroniCast's study is segmented into the following major application categories: telecommunications, premises/enterprise, Cable TV, military/aerospace (commercial and MIL-SPEC), specialty (intra-enclosure, test and measurement, laboratory, other), and the manufacturing/production of fiber-optic communication components.