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Datacom and Telecom revenue reached new records of $7.7 billion and $2.0 billion despite supply chain challenges. 800GbE continue to surge as 1.6TbE starts to ship in volume. In Telecom, a big quarter for 1.2T+ embedded and 800ZRx pushed growth.

22% growth, added Pluggable Applications Report

Driven by North American hyperscalers, worldwide Cloud & Colo spending leapt 61% to its eleventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth

Uncovering who uses which DSP, and which DSP vendors ship the most volume. Updated with the latest data from 2025.

Datacom revenue crossed $6 billion for the quarter and $19 billion for the year as more than 42 million 400G+ datacom modules shipped. Annual Telecom revenue reached new heights as well, up 35% over 2024.

New for this quarter – WDM Pluggable Market Share

All three end customer markets grew worldwide, with worldwide cloud spending growing 64%

In this update to our 1Q25 report, we cover the trends favoring pluggable optics as well as the companies positioned to benefit.

Datacom revenue passed $5B with 800GbE module growth. Telecom revenue reached a 4-year peak with pluggable coherent modules and components.

All three end customer markets grew worldwide, with worldwide cloud spending growing 64%

All three end customer markets grew worldwide, with worldwide cloud spending growing 64%

Pluggable coherent is transforming optical transport, replacing embedded optics to and extending the benefits of pluggables to traditional optical transport hardware.

Datacom revenues and module shipments roared back from last quarter’s pause and Telecom revenue has recovered. 400ZRx pluggable shipments have slowed, but embedded high speed coherent made up the difference in deployed bandwidth.

Optimism ruled at CIOE this year, with vendors and operators eager to talk about the latest datacom speeds, emerging optical technologies, and the unique ways that China builds and consumes optics.

The market recovery accelerated in 2Q with Cloud & Colo spending rocketing 50%.

The worldwide optical transport market accelerated in 2Q as cloud and colo spending rocketed 50% worldwide.

Datacom revenues and shipments slowed, 400ZRx shipments kept Telecom revenue growing for a fourth consecutive quarter.

The Optical and Routing markets show signs of recovery, and tariffs aren’t yet affecting business.

The Optical and Routing markets show signs of recovery, and tariffs aren’t yet affecting business.

Uncovering who uses which DSP, and which DSP vendors ship the most volume.