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Market Research Report
ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION COMPONENTS MARKET FORECASTS (UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2005)
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This publication has been discontinued on July 19, 2011.
Abstract
The telecom market is at the end, not just of the big boom/bust cycle of the
last four or five years, but rather at the end of a 20-year boom cycle that
included the rise of the PC, LANs and the World Wide Web. Until something
really big happens again-and this could be the rise of pervasive computing
over the next few years-the telecom/networking industry will grow at only a
slow pace. However, it will probably take a few little mini-booms and
mini-busts, like the ones we have seen recently before the industry admits
that we are now in a state of relative maturity.
There is still money to be made in a mature industry, of course, but
profitability is to be found in cost controls and supply chain management,
rather in radical new directions in product/technology platforms.
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