"The term 鈥淲ireless Network Infrastructure鈥� has conventionally been associated with macrocell RAN (Radio Access Network) and mobile core network infrastructure. However, the scope of the term is expanding as wireless carriers increase their investments in Heterogeneous Network or HetNet infrastructure such as small cells, carrier WiFi and DAS (Distributed Antenna System) nodes, to cope with increasing capacity and coverage requirements.
In addition, wireless carriers are keen to shift towards a C-RAN (Centralized RAN) architecture, which centralizes baseband functionality to be shared across a large number of distributed radio nodes. In comparison to standalone clusters of base stations, C-RAN provides significant performance and economic benefits such as baseband pooling, enhanced coordination between cells, virtualization, network extensibility and energy efficiency.
Despite an ongoing decline in traditional macrocell RAN spending, the wider wireless network infrastructure market encompassing macrocell RAN, small cells, C-RAN, RRH, DAS, mobile core, backhaul and fronthaul infrastructure will continue to witness growth over the coming years. By the end of 2020, the market is expected to account for over $92 Billion in revenue. Complimenting this growth would be over $5 Billion worth of annual R&D investments on 5G mobile technology funded by regional, national government, wireless carrier and vendor initiatives.
The 鈥淲ireless Network Infrastructure Ecosystem: 2015 鈥� 2020 - Macrocell RAN, Small Cells, C-RAN, RRH, DAS, Carrier WiFi, Mobile Core, Backhaul & Fronthaul鈥� report presents an in-depth assessment of 10 individual submarkets of the wireless network infrastructure opportunity. Besides analyzing key market drivers, challenges, enabling technologies, investment trends, operator revenue potential, regional CapEx commitments, network rollout strategies, future roadmap, 5G R&D initiatives, value chain, vendor assessment and market share, the report also presents revenue and unit shipment forecasts for 10 submarkets from 2015 to 2020 at a regional as well as a global scale. Historical figures are also provided for 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014.
The report comes with an associated Excel datasheet suite covering quantitative data from over 500 numeric forecasts presented in the report.
Key Findings:
The report has the following key findings:
Topics Covered:
The report covers the following topics:
Historical Revenue & Forecast Segmentation:
Market forecasts and historical revenue/unit shipment figures are provided for each of the following submarkets and their subcategories:
Submarkets
The following regional and technology markets are also covered:
Regional Markets
- Asia Pacific
- Eastern Europe
- Latin & Central America
- Middle East & Africa
- North America
- Western Europe
Technology Markets
- GSM
- CDMA/CDMA2000/EV-DO
- W-CDMA/HSPA
- LTE FDD
- TD-LTE
- WiMAX
- WiFi
Key Questions Answered:
The report provides answers to the following key questions:
听- How is the 2G, 3G & 4G wireless network infrastructure market evolving by segment and region? What will the market size be in 2020 and at what rate will it grow?
听- What trends, challenges and barriers are influencing its growth?
听- How will the market shape for small cell, C-RAN and DAS deployments?
听- Is Ethernet a feasible solution to for C-RAN fronthaul?
听- What are the future prospects of millimeter wave technology for backhaul, fronthaul and RAN deployments?
听- How will carrier WiFi fit into future mobile network architectures for access and offload?
听- Who are the key vendors in the market, what is their market share and what are their strategies?
听- What strategies should be adopted by wireless carriers and infrastructure vendors to remain a dominant market force?
听- Which 2G, 3G & 4G technology constitutes the highest amount of spending and how will this evolve overtime?
听- How will LTE deployments proceed, and how long will GSM, W-CDMA/HSPA and CDMA technologies co-exist with LTE?
听- When will WiMAX infrastructure spending diminish?
听- What is the global and regional outlook for each individual sub-market including macrocell RAN, small cells, C-RAN, RRH, DAS, carrier WiFi, mobile core, macrocell backhaul, small cell backhaul and mobile fronthaul?
听- What is the outlook for TD-LTE, LTE-Advanced, VoLTE, RCS, LTE-Broadcast and LTE-U technologies?
听- Do emerging virtualization technologies such as NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) pose a threat to traditional wireless infrastructure vendors?
听- How much will vendors and operators invest in 5G R&D?
听- How low is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of a HetNet deployment in comparison to a homogeneous macrocell RAN network?"
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