Jeff Heynen
Vice President
Dell’Oro Group’s Data Center Fiber Structured Cabling and PON ODN Advanced Research Report provides 5-year forecasts for Optical Distribution Network (ODN) equipment used in data center and residential FTTH builds. The report also tracks technology and architecture evolutions and deployment trends by region and by cloud service provider type.
The Optical Distribution Network is an integral part of PON networks, providing the physical layer connection between Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Optical Network Terminals (ONTs). The ODN encompasses fiber-optic cabling and the passive infrastructure used to distribute fiber connections to residential and business customers.
For data center fiber structured cabling, demand is driven by new data centers in terms of total megawatts (MW), which then cascades to racks and servers/GPUs. Hyperscale cloud providers are facing similar challenges with preparing, routing, and splicing large fiber counts at each rack, which can often take up to 4 hours to complete. Multiply that across thousands of racks and that consumes thousands of technician hours. So, hyperscale cloud providers are moving more to pre-connectorized fibers that are terminated in either the top of the server rack or in individual cassettes located within each of the racks.
As data center buildouts continue to surge and as fiber ISPs expand PON networks and increase the number of homes and businesses passed and connected, ODN infrastructure represents a critical component of network deployment and investment.
Understanding ODN investment requirements, technology and architecture evolution, regional deployment differences, and future fiber requirements helps hyperscale cloud service providers, fiber ISPs, component and equipment manufacturers, and financial institutions evaluate market opportunities and anticipate infrastructure demand.
To take advantage of the opportunities associated with the deployment of fiber structured cabling in data centers and intelligent ODNs to support residential and business PON services, hyperscale cloud service providers, fiber ISPs, component and equipment manufacturers, and financial institutions will find answers to critical business questions, including:
- What is the total market opportunity for ODN equipment across data center and residential FTTH deployments?
- How quickly will operators upgrade their ODNs to incorporate intelligent components designed to improve overall service reliability?
- Will there be regional differences in how ODNs are architected and deployed?
- How many more fiber route miles are required to achieve the homes passed and homes connected goals of the world’s largest operators?
- How quickly will hyperscale cloud service providers adopt hollow-core fiber for use in their data centers?
- What is the demand for new fiber structured cabling components across different cloud service provider types?
The report includes tables showing manufacturers’ revenue, units shipped, and average selling prices. The report also includes a 5-year forecast for the following areas:
- ODN Equipment: Fiber-optic cabling, splice closures and enclosures, patch panels and distribution frames, fiber distribution hubs, fiber access terminals, fiber transition terminals, trunk and cable assemblies, cassettes, cable management and raceway systems, and fiber cabinets
- Fiber-Optic Cabling: Distribution, drop, and feeder fiber for residential FTTH networks; single-mode, multi-mode, and hollow-core for data center deployments
- Architecture Evolution: Traditional, pre-connectorized, and intelligent ODN deployments
- Intelligent ODN: Adoption trends and evolution of intelligent management capabilities
- Fiber Deployment: Fiber route-mile requirements associated with homes passed and homes connected, as well as trunk cabling within and between data centers
- Regional Coverage: North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, CALA, and Worldwide
