Active optical cable market to reach $4.2 billion by 2027

Communications Industry Researchers (CIR) has just issued a new report stating that revenues from active optical cables (AOCs) will reach approximately $4.2 billion by 2027. This reflects an expected surge in 400G AOC deployments, soon to be followed by rapid growth 800G AOCs deployment. On the supply side, use of 400/800G AOCs will be spurred by the latest switching technology.

According to Lawrence Gasman, author of this new study, “Active Optical Cables Market Forecasts: 2022-2031”, and President of CIR, “AI, ML, VR and AR will both eat up bandwidth in the data center and demand low latency to a degree that we have never seen before. AOCs that support 400G have started to become mainstream in large data centers and 800G AOCs seem likely to be with us in a few years.”

CT Bureau