"North America clearly leads the metro-optical-networking marketplace over the next five-year period because of its intense competitive environment, leadership in equipment production and supply, concentration of Internet traffic, and metro fiber-optic infrastructure opportunity. The European market will represent the second-largest market through the five-year period because of its intense competition, while other global markets remain well behind as they strive to build-out their core optical-network markets first," explains Douglas McEuen, senior market analyst, optical networks at Pioneer Consulting.

- Lightwave Magazine