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Posted by Stephen Hardy

If you're reading this, you've probably already visited the story describing our picks for the Top 5 component/subsystems vendors for 2007. (And if you haven't read it, you can find it here.) Before you offer your comments, let me tell you about some of the companies that almost made it.

In particular, we were impressed with companies who made aggressive moves to expand into new areas or improve market share through acquisition. Oplink acquired Optical Communication Products (see here) and moved within Ovum RHK's Top 10 list of vendors for the four quarters beginning with Q406. Luminent's acquisition of Fiberxon to create Source Photonics had the same effect. And Emcore's acquisition of Opticomm in April and the telecom portions of Intel's Optical Platform Division in December may produce a similar result once the latter deal closes.

However, these moves weren't quite enough to overcome the momentum we believe our Top 5 picks generated during 2007.

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Labels: Emcore, Fiberxon, Intel, Luminent, OCP, Oplink, Opticomm, Source Photonics, Top 5