Spending on optical transport equipment dwindled during the fourth quarter of 2020, while the SD-WAN market boomed, according to figures just released by Dell’Oro Group. The findings may provide more evidence of the diversity of effects the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the networking world.
For the full year of 2020, optical transport equipment revenue came in at about $16 billion, Dell’Oro noted in a press release. This represents revenue growth of just 1% overall for the global market during the year, largely a result of the sales declines that occurred particularly in the Americas during the final quarter of the year.
