North American Wavelength Services Forecast, 2025

This study examines the North American wavelength services market from 2023 to 2028, which will continue to witness a single-digit growth rate throughout the forecast period, driven by exponential bandwidth demand from wholesale and retail customers. The study covers revenue forecasts, revenue split by retail and wholesale, revenue split by transport length (metro and long haul), and revenue forecasts by speeds. The revenue analysis is segmented into retail (sales to enterprises) and wholesale (sales to communication service providers, system integrators, content providers, cloud service providers, and resellers). Wavelength services in this study include all the typical speeds from 1G to 400G configurations, primarily ethernet over waves (EoW). Frost & Sullivan conducted detailed primary interviews with leading network service providers, analyzed their annual reports, and utilized internal databases to perform detailed revenue analysis on the wavelength services market. The resulting revenue size reflects a sum of the estimates for individual companies.