Analysis shows that companies and telecommunications service providers to deploy a huge investment and higher 1G network ports to enhance its network capacity to meet market demand. 40G and 100G is the main growth market. 2.5G revenue in 2014 due to the increase in China and North America GPON OLT expenditure laid Gigabit services, achieved the highest growth rate.

IHS enterprise networks and video research director Matthias Machowinski said: "The needs of enterprise and data center based on the new 100G technology transfer QSFP, we expect 40G revenue will begin to decline as early as 2017."

"With the large-scale laying 100G ports in the metro network, Google, Microsoft and Amazon and other companies introduced their large data centers the 100G Ethernet switching technology, 2016 will be a breakthrough year for 100G technology." IHS operators Andrew Schmitt, director of Transmission network representation.

2015 1G / 2.5G / 10G / 40G / 100G port shipments will more than 700 million, the total amount will reach $ 45 billion. 100G shipments will double by 2014, reaching 163,000.

IHS expects 2014-2019 Global 100G port revenue will reach 137 percent compound annual growth rate.