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Optica promotes and protects the business of optics and photonics in driving innovation, creating jobs, and accelerating growth around the world. Optica provides exclusive roadmap reports and market data for the industry, serves as the voice of the industry to government and academia, acts as a liaison with associations worldwide and provides a network for the exchange of ideas and information within the optics and photonics community.
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Optical Communications Market – 2022 Survey Results and Analysis
In May 2022, Omdia conducted a survey of 32 senior IT decision makers within telecom operators to better understand the telco IT operational support system (OSS), business support system (BSS) and analytics market. Results assess topics such as investment plans, top security challenges and SaaS adoption.
The Market Update also contains the second iteration of Omdia’s digital strategy benchmark assessment. It measures the digital strategies of 12 major service provider groups by awarding scores across a range of factors, such as digital enablement, digital channels, R&D and partnerships and investment.
Industry | Information
New Brochure: How Optics and Photonics Impacts the Global Economy
Optica’s complimentary new brochure, Optics and Photonics: The Impact on a Global Economy, summarizes the optics and photonics industry in colorful graphics, for presenting to policymakers, investors and anyone seeking to know more about our industry.
It illustrates the key vertical markets, the phenomenal growth rate of laser sales over 60 years, production by region, the impact on jobs worldwide and more.
Events | Webinar
New industry webinars are now available!
Check back frequently as new live webinars are continually being posted along with on-demand digital programming.
Industry | Feature
Market Insights: Trends in airline traffic and profits
This Market Insights feature focuses on answering some of these questions as optics and photonics technologies are frequently found throughout the airline industry supply chain.
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Market Insights: Trends in military spending
How does military spending shift in the face of a recession? What has U.S. spending on military procurement and R&D looked like in the past? This Market Insights feature focuses on answering some of these questions as optics and photonics technologies grow increasingly important in the context of national security and intelligence.