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According to ElectroniCast Consultants, the worldwide use of handheld OTDR and associated devices reached $316.5 million in 2016
Aptos, United States, January 14,2017/Free-Press-Release.com/ -- ElectroniCast Consultants, a leading market and technology research consultancy addressing the fiber optics communications industry, today announced the release of an extensive study report covering the worldwide market for handheld OTDRs and multiple-test units (platforms) using OTDR modules, as well as supplementary/secondary (add-on) OTDR-based modules.
An Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) is a fiber optic test instrument used as a troubleshooting device to find faults in the optical fiber link.
According to ElectroniCast Consultants, the worldwide use of handheld OTDR and associated devices reached $316.5 million in 2016. Telecommunications, held a 79 percent market share of worldwide consumption value last year, followed by the cable TV operator/installer sector. Consumption of in the Private Enterprise networks, military and various specialty/other applications are also quantified in this market research study.
“The use of handheld OTDRs and the associated devices, by end-user groups, covered in the just-released market report is forecast to increase at a slow pace, except in Private Enterprise Networks,” said Stephen Montgomery, Director of the Fiber Optics group at ElectroniCast. “Handheld OTDR consumption value in Private Enterprise Networks is forecast to increase at over 20 percent per year through 2019, driven by OTDR-based multiple-function units used for troubleshooting and continuous documenting of enterprise, Local Area networks/Wide Area Networks (LAN/WAN), campus single-mode and multimode fiber networks,” Montgomery said.
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