What is the prospect market of fiber optics communication industry

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 Symbol LU – (S&P 500) Employee ~ 47,000 s HQ CEO New Jersey, US Patricia Russo, 50: (salary: $14.28mil/yr) Revenue FY03: $8.6billion Profile & History Lucent Technologies Inc 1996 Spun off from AT&T Established through forming the soon-to-be-spun–off system and technology unit of AT&T, such as Western Electric 1996 – 2001 Progressed through acquisitions such as Ascend, which made Lucent leading provider of data networking 2001 – 2003 Focus on the largest communication provider, streamlines its portfolio to deliver wireline and wireless products Profile & History Lucent Technologies Inc • • • Owns Bell Research Lab (> 40,000 patented inventions since 1925) • First Optical Switch • Fastest Transmission System over Fiber NO manufacturer in Optical Communications NO 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 CISCO Inc 1984 CISCO System Established by computer scientists from Stanford University 1990 Publicized in NASDAQ 1995 John Chambers appointed as CEO and president of the CISCO 1998 Initiated IP network solutions and Internet Business Solutions 2000 Pioneer in computer networking used by big corporations 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 NextGeneration 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 Company Current Year 2003 Next Year 2004 Sales Growth(%) Lucent Tech $8.6 bil $9.1 bil 5.2% Nortel Network $9.6 bil $10.1 bil 5.9% CISCO Inc $20.40 bil $22.6 bil 11.1% Provided by: AmericanTrade Analysts Stock Values Company Closing Prices As of 9/8/2003 Lucent Technologies Inc $2.22 Nortel Network $4.10 CISCO Inc $20.59 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  After Years with Firm: New to the job - Experienced: $10.00 $28.75 $12.50 - $30.00 Job Market Best Locations for Job Hunting OTHERS 17% MD 2% CA 31% WA 2% DC 3% NJ 4% SC 4% PA 8% NY 5% VA 7% FL 6% MA 6% MN 5% 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 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 Recruiter Contacts Wes Roberts Technical Recruiter Natural Data, Inc Phone:214-378-9333 FAX:214-378-9444 wroberts@naturaldata.net http://www.naturaldata.net/ Shelly Herdman, Staffing Consultant Search Tech 408-379-9824 ext 236 fax: 408-379-4276 email: shelly@searchtechinc.com Guthoff & Associates Joanne Davis 659 A Park Meadow Rd Westerville, Ohio 43081 614-794-9950 voice 614-794-9951 fax pguthoff@cs.com www.guthoffassociates.com Jan Sappington Corporate Image Group 3145 Hickory Hill #204 Memphis, TN 38115 jan@corpimg.com (Phone): 800-823-5100 (Fax): 901-360-0813 AND MORE… Please email me ...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... Researchers at Bell-Northern Research (BNR) publish the first paper considering the possibility of using glass fibers to carry information Profile & History NORTEL Inc 1972 Northern Electric opens... Terabits per second (Tbps) of Internet and other traffic over a single, hair-thin strand of fiber Profile & History NORTEL Inc 2000 Bell Canada (BCE) distributes 94 percent of its Nortel Networks