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Why am I taking this class?. What is the prospect market of fiber optics communication industry?. POTENTIAL FUTURE OF FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATION?. EE566 Class Presentation Jia-Lock WONG September 10, 2003. POTENTIAL FUTURE OF FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATION?. Introduction History of Companies
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Why am I taking this class? What is the prospect market of fiber optics communication industry?
POTENTIAL FUTURE OF FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATION? EE566 Class Presentation Jia-Lock WONG September 10, 2003
POTENTIAL FUTURE OF FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATION? • Introduction • History of Companies • Featured Products • Revenue and Market Overview • Job Market • Improvements and Suggestions • Conclusions
Introduction Fiber Optics Communication Equipments: • Optical Switch • Optical Multiplexer • Optical Amplifier • Fiber Optic Cables • Optical Transport Equipment • And so on…….. Optical Switch Optical Multiplexer Optical Amp
Three Giants • LUCENT (www.lucent.com) • NORTEL (www.nortelnetworks.com) • CISCO (www.cisco.com)
Profile & History Lucent Technologies Inc.
Profile & History Lucent Technologies Inc.
Profile & History Lucent Technologies Inc. • Owns Bell Research Lab (> 40,000 patented inventions since 1925) • First Optical Switch • Fastest Transmission System over Fiber • NO. 2 manufacturer in Optical Communications • NO. 1 CDMA Devices manufacturer
Featured Products • Lucent Technologies Inc. Expertise in voice switches, wireless base stations, fiber optic cables and transmission equipments Wavestar TDM 10G Multiplexer Transmit 12,000 encyclopedia volume in a second from New Jersey to Califronia
Featured Products • Lucent Technologies Inc. Dominates wireless broadcasting equipments in North America such as GSM, TDMA and CDMA system
Profile & History • NORTEL Inc.
Profile & History NORTEL Inc.
Profile & History NORTEL Inc.
Profile & History NORTEL Inc.
Featured Products • Nortel Inc. No.1 Canadian Fiber Optic Firm • Nortel Networks was the first to market • SDH and SONET 2.5 Gbit/s Time • Division multiplexing (TDM) • Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) • 10 Gbit/s TDM and WDM Add/Drop • Multiplexing (ADM) • High Speed Optical Transmission • Technology OC-192
Profile & History • CISCO Inc.
Profile & History CISCO Inc.
Featured Products • CISCO Inc. Dominates data networking used by big corporation, 80% of all internet traffic using its router Specializes in IP based product such as digitizing voice mail and display as email form.
Featured Products • CISCO Inc. The ONS 15454 DWDM allow the user to scale to 80Gbps leveraging 32 wavelengths passive optical filter solutions
Latest Annoucements • Lucent Technologies SEP 2003 • AT&T Selects Lucent Technologies to Provide Next-Generation SONET Throughout Network • Nortel Networks JUN-SEP 2003 • Verizon Wireless Gives $1B Deal to Nortel • CISCO September 2003 • Cisco Systems Unveils Color IP Telephone • Cisco Delivers Fibre Channel-Based SAN Extension Over SONET/SDH on the Cisco ONS 15454 MSPP, becoming Industry’s Top Platform for deploying FCIP and SAN
Revenue Estimates Provided by: AmericanTrade Analysts
Comparisons Of Stock Values Sales Miscalculations and Over Expansions in Long Haul Optical Networks WE are here
Job Market - Wages Hourly Wages in California • Entry Range: $7.00 - $22.00 • New to the job - Experienced: $10.00 - $28.75 • After 3 Years with Firm: $12.50 - $30.00
Job Market • Best Locations for Job Hunting Sampled from 1000 recently posted Fiber Optic Comm.Jobs on monster.com, careerbuilder.com and jobsearch.com
Suggestions (Interview Tips) Lucent Technologies • IMPROVE human resources management: Lost nearly 2 dozen top managers and engineers due to profit warning on Jan 6, 2002 GOOD NEWS!!! In contrast, Nortel will invest $260mil, hire 3400 people next quarter to meet the demand.
Suggestions Nortel Networks • INTRODUCE stronger products in corporation data networking business that CISCO dominates
Suggestions CISCO • CONCENTRATE more in optical networking: has bought bits and pieces to put together an optical networking like Pirelli, Cerent and Monterey. Not enough compare to Lucent and Nortel.
Conclusion Fiber Optics Communication Expressway CISCO raising the speed limit LUCENT adding more lanes NORTEL providing faster transport equipments Quote: BusinessWeek October 2002 Future is uncertain, however, we know the traffic is increasing .i.e. we need a faster and more sophisticated infrastructure to support the demand. Quote: Wall Street Journal 2002
References • www.lucent.com • www.nortelnetweeks.com • www.cisco.com • www.businessjournals.com • www.finance.yahoo.com • www.businessweeks.co.jp