Leading market players are investing heavily in research and development to expand their product lines, which will help the data center interconnect market grow even more. Market participants are also undertaking numerous strategic activities to expand their global footprint, with important market developments including new product launches, contractual agreements, mergers and acquisitions, higher investments, and collaboration with other organizations. To expand and survive in a more competitive and rising market climate, the data center interconnect industry must offer cost-effective items.
Manufacturing locally to minimize operational costs is one of the key business tactics manufacturers use in the global data center interconnect industry to benefit clients and increase the market sector. Major players in the data center interconnect market, including Ciena Corporation (US), Nokia Corporation (Finland), Huawei Technologies (China), Juniper Networks, Inc. (US), Infinera Corporation (US), and others, are attempting to increase market demand by investing in research and development operations.
Cisco Systems Inc integrates intent-based technologies across networking, security, collaboration, applications and cloud. The company offers switches, modules, wireless products, controllers, access points, routers, and interfaces. The company's products and technologies help the clients manage more users, devices and things connecting to their networks. Cisco serves various industries, including oil and gas, education, financial services, government, healthcare, mining, sports, media, entertainment, retail, utilities, and transportation. It markets solutions via a direct sales force and channel partners, including service providers, distributors, and resellers. In March 2021, Cisco Systems completed the acquisition of Acacia Communications, Inc.
Acacia designs and manufactures high-speed, optical interconnect technologies that allow webscale firms, service delivers, and data center operators to meet the fast-growing consumer demand for data.
Ciena Corp provides communications networking solutions. The companies offer networking equipment, software and services that support the transport, switching, service delivery, video and data traffic on communications networks. Its products allow network operators to increase transmission speed, scale capacity, allocate traffic and adapt to user's changing service demands. Its solutions include networking platforms and converged packet optical routing and switching portfolios. The company serves telecommunications service providers, government, electric utilities, enterprises, research and education institutions, submarine network operators and cable operators.
In November 2020, Ciena Corporation signed a contract with NTT Communications Corporation, the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, that deployed a single-wave 800G line speed solution for Data Center Interconnect (DCI) offered by the Ciena Corporation.