Sunday, October 19, 2008

CIOE2008: PLC

More than 10 companies show their PLC products in this show. PLC is the hottest topic on the floor. These companies include Broadtech, Photonicshy,Neophotonics,Wuxi Aofiber,Yilut,Agilecom,Solorein etc. And you can also find some companies who are recruiting PLC engineers right in the show.
Although many of them announces they have developed this product for a long time, but in fact, PLC became a hot topic only in this year. Even in last year, you can't count more than 3 PLC manufactures in China.
With the appearing FTTH market in China and around the world, many passive component companies think they must have PLC ability. But of course, they can't have this technology in one night. Chinese manufactures are not good at chip level manufacturing; they are good at packaging technology. Then in order to have PLC products, they have to purchase PLC chip from Japanese or Korean companies. If you can find a source for chip, you will have this product. So you will find more and more PLC manufactures in China, and you will soon see price war in this field. This maybe the reality in the optical component industry in China.

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