NEWS: UPDATE
PARTNERSHIP PROVIDES NORTH AMERICA EXPANSION POTENTIAL FiconTEC is the fourth company
Photonics automated assembly and testing firm, ficonTEC, is expanding within North America in partnership with the University of Central Florida (UCF). Te move will see the company
join UCF’s Business Incubation Program as a ‘soſt landing’ client. It will facilitate the expansion of its sales and service teams in the region, while also opening an Applications Lab on UCF’s main campus, inside CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics. Te new lab will serve as a research and development manufacturing facility for ficonTEC, and will also be open to UCF students, faculty and local industry partners. It is expected to open in March. According to ficonTEC CEO,
Torsten Vahrenkamp: ‘We realised fairly early in 2020 that we would need to meet this challenge globally. North
America in particular is proving pivotal in leading greater adoption of integrated photonics for communications, data centres and 5G, for sensors and automotive lidar, and for consumer 3D sensing, so we needed a dedicated expansion of the regional sales and service operations. With recruitment already initiated for 2021 and training completed at ficonTEC HQ in Germany, we now have a growing team of field service and application development engineers ready to get the job done. I am absolutely thrilled – we could not have hoped for a beter environment from which to re- launch our USA activities.’ From the university’s point of
view, CREOL students and faculty regularly produce prototypes and theoretical devices, but can be limited in their ability to create a functional model. Te new lab will help to bring the precise, advanced
OPTICAL TRANSPORT DEMAND TO REACH $18BN IN FIVE YEARS
According to the latest forecast report by research firm, Dell’Oro Group, demand for optical transport equipment is predicted to increase to $18bn by 2026. Te Optical Transport 5-Year Forecast Report stated that all of
the market growth will be from sales of DWDM systems delivering wavelength speeds in excess of 200Gb/s. However, IPoDWDM is expected to lower the overall demand for DWDM systems. Amongst the report’s other findings, the market is expected to
grow at a three per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR), driven by higher demand in all major regions. Coherent wavelength shipments on DWDM systems are forecast to grow at a 12 per cent CAGR, while the ZR optics market, comprised of 400ZR and 800ZR, is predicted to surpass $600m by 2026. Jimmy Yu, vice president at Dell’Oro Group said: ‘I am excited
to see how the Optical Transport market unfolds in the next few years. Drivers of our growth prediction include the growing global economy, government initiatives to fund the reach of broadband to rural areas, and overall network upgrades to align with customer demand for more bandwidth. Tere will, however, be some bumps in the road. ‘It will be interesting to watch how new technologies, such as
400ZR and 1.2Tb/s-capable wavelengths, change the market dynamics,’ continued Yu. ‘Will 400ZR really drive the adoption of IPoDWDM, an architectural concept that originally came out over a decade ago? If it does, will it change the demand profile for new generations of coherent technology, such as 1.2 Tbps-capable modules scheduled to be released in a year? ‘For the first question, I think it will. For the second question, I think
it might.’ 8 FiBRE SYSTEMS n Issue 35 n Spring 2022
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FTTH ROLL OUT UK ISP, Giganet, has entered into a multi-year agreement with global supply chain solutions provider, Anixter, to support the expansion of full fibre, hyperfast service delivery to premises throughout the UK.
Te agreement represents
a solution to the operational challenges faced by ISPs trying to efficiently scale their network and services to meet a constantly growing demand for high-speed broadband internet access. Anixter will provide its supply chain management expertise, including stockholding and material management services; deployment
COLLABORATION CONFIRMED FOR UK
enhancement services; vendor rationalisation and management and passive infrastructure provisioning for ducts, sub ducts, chambers and fibre cables. Tis will help to allow the ISP to focus on providing fast, reliable and affordable internet services. Jarlath Finnegan, CEO at
Giganet, said: ‘We want to connect customers, and Anixter can help us achieve this in the most efficient way. We see this type of approach as a game changer, allowing us the flexibility to operate nationwide without the logistic and warehousing challenges normally associated with these activities.’
equipment needed to fabricate the finished prototypes that atract investors. David Hagan, dean of the
College of Optics and Photonics, said: ‘Tis partnership brings a new dimension to CREOL’s established photonics R&D groups and in the United States as a whole. It provides UCF students an unmatched opportunity to learn the techniques of photonics integration.’
to join UCF’s Photonics Incubator within the CREOL facilities, and the first to offer its own manufacturing capabilities. Te incubator is also home to LC Mater Corporation, Plasmonics and Olkin Optics. Companies in the incubator may use CREOL laboratory facilities, collaborate with faculty and graduate students, and access UCF’s business development resources.
University of Central Florida (UCF) Giganet
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