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London, UK, May 14, 2009—Market research firm Infonetics Research recently released its Microwave Equipment market size, market share, and forecast report. The report, which is now published quarterly, tracks access and backhaul/transport PDH/SDH microwave equipment and Ethernet and dual Ethernet/TDM microwave equipment. Highlights from the report follow.
“The big trend in the microwave equipment market is the transition from TDM to Ethernet. Microwave enables mobile operators to make phased upgrades of their backhaul networks from TDM-only to hybrid TDM/Ethernet systems to packet-based all-Ethernet solutions in the future. This offers a scaleable and cost-effective roadmap for managing the escalating bandwidth demands driven by the mobile broadband boom, and future 4G deployments. Typically, operators will keep legacy TDM microwave for another 5–10 years to support 2G/3G voice whilst deploying Ethernet for growing volumes of data traffic."
Richard Webb, Infonetics Research's Directing Analyst for WiMAX, Microwave, and Mobile Devices.
MARKET RESEARCH REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
- Worldwide microwave equipment sales hit $4.9 billion in 2008, up 23% from the previous year
- Despite a tough macroeconomic climate, mobile operators continue to invest in mobile backhaul to accommodate rapidly rising mobile broadband traffic – the primary driver behind strong microwave equipment market growth
- Dual TDM/Ethernet equipment makes up the bulk of microwave backhaul equipment, enabling mobile operators to continue to support TDM for voice traffic and simultaneously leverage the higher capacity capabilities of Ethernet to manage the exponential growth in data traffic
- Microwave is increasingly used as an access technology in developing countries where there is more frequently a dearth of viable wireline access alternatives for enterprises and organizations with growing bandwidth needs
- Ericsson and NEC are in a neck-and-neck battle for the lead in the fast growing microwave equipment market in 2008
- A secondary technology trend of the microwave market is the transition from point-to-point (P2P) to point-to-multipoint (P2MP) architectures, which enable cost-saving benefits
REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ microwave report tracks Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent, Allgon, Bridgewave, Cambridge Broadband, Ceragon, DragonWave, Ericsson, Exalt, Harris Stratex, Huawei, Microwave Networks, NEC, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, Proxim, RAD Data, Sagem, Trango, ZTE and others.
The microwave report is now published quarterly and provides worldwide and regional market size, vendor market share, forecasts through 2013, vendor and service provider activity, technology roadmaps, market drivers, and in-depth analysis. The report tracks revenue, units, and average price-per-unit for access and backhaul/transport microwave equipment, including PDH/SDH microwave equipment and Ethernet and dual Ethernet/TDM microwave equipment (low capacity and high capacity).
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