Our ever-connected world also means Increasing bandwidth requirements and huge data center deployments.
These dynamics deeply impact the active optical cable market where the emerging
technologies such as Software-defined networking (SDN) and network-function
virtualization (NFV) among others will be a game changer.
According to Research and Markets, the overall market is expected to reach USD
3.43 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 27.1% between 2016 and 2022.
Data center is expected to lead the end user application of
the active optical cable market.
For those who are unfamiliar, the data center market also needs a broad
portfolio of fiber optic modules to connect servers, switches, and storage, which
is accomplished by active optical cable.
InfiniBand protocol as a highly used protocol among others is
scalable and supports quality of service (QOS). The interface of this protocol
in commercial applications such as server and supercomputers are playing a key
role in the market growth.