Ian Redpath

Research Director Transport Networks and Components at Omdia

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Ian is the Research Director for Omdia’s Transport Networks and Components practice. He is responsible for strategy, client, product and team development for one of Omdia's most advanced technology practices. Managing a team of communications technology professionals, he covers how the communications service providers, cloud providers and enterprises utilize and deploy the leading edge optical networks, components and routing technologies.

The Transport Networks, Networked Edge and Components team’s latest research initiative is sorting how optical and routed networks will evolve for 5G. Ian tracks the evolution of the data center interconnect market and the impact on both the optical components and optical networks systems market. His team is tracking market share for terrestrial and subsea optical networks, optical components and service provider switching and routing vendors. His team also publishes thought leadership analyses on 5G MFH-MBH, data center interconnect, silicon photonics, optics and routing.

Ian is a regular speaker at industry, service provider and system vendor events. He also contributes to setting the agenda for many industry events. He also conducts custom research and consulting for clients. His clients include communications service providers, rights-of-way owners, system vendors, optical components and ASIC vendors and the financial/legal communities. His recent custom efforts have included sizing the components market for the rapidly evolving 5G ecosystems, evaluating service provider market entry strategies; sizing dark fiber markets; competitive analysis of a regional data center market; and sizing the data center interconnect market.

Prior to his work in the analyst community, Ian started with system vendors: Nortel, Bell-Northern Research and Maryland-based optical start-up Corvis. Ian received his MBA from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba.