Bishop & Associates Inc. has just released a new detailed report that covers multi-gigabit data communications connectors and cable assemblies. This market research report contains in-depth analysis of the market for these products, along with profiles of some of the top vendors in the different networking segments: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand.

The five-year forecasts include many permutations:

• Networking segment and data rate

• Region of the world

• Product

• Media type

• Structured cabling

• Interconnect

Within the datacom market, Ethernet remains the most pervasive networking technology, with Fibre Channel second and InfiniBand third. It is anticipated that by as soon as 2012, InfiniBand will surpass Fibre Channel due to its increasing penetration into the high performance computing sector, and because of its adoption into low-latency applications such as financial trading. Still, by 2015, it will only be about one-fifth that of the Ethernet market as shown in the following tables.

Data Communications Connectors and Cable Assemblies
Sales by Equipment Category
$ millions

 

China is the fastest-growing region and already has the largest percent of sales. Also, revenue from sales of connectors and cable assemblies into China is expected to almost double over the next five years. This is shown in the following table and charts.

Data Communications Connectors and Cable Assemblies
2010-2015 Sales by Region
$ millions
 

 

2010 Data Communications Connectors and Cable Assemblies
Sales by Region

2015 Data Communications Connectors and Cable Assemblies
Sales by Region Forecast