Research and Markets: MPMB SDR Base Stations Will See the Emergence of 4G Standards Like UMB, LTE and Mobile WiMAX, Which Are Expected to Be Commercialised around 2010
DUBLIN, Ireland--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74034) announces the addition of Pioneer Consulting's new report Commercial Software Defined Radio - The Emergence of Multiprotocol Multiband Support in Base Stations to their offering.
To coincide with the SDR Forum Technical Conference 2007 in Denver, CO, this new research was published highlighting the opportunity for Multiprotocol Multiband (MPMB) Software Defined Radio (SDR) base stations. The research, entitled “Commercial Software Defined Radio – The Emergence of Multiprotocol Multiband Support in Base Stations”, concludes that market factors and advances in the technology are creating a favourable environment for SDR base station technology.
The research indicates that the key to achieving growth in worldwide demand for MPMB SDR base stations is the emergence of 4G standards like UMB, LTE and Mobile WiMAX which are expected to be commercialised around 2010. By 2014, Pioneer expects that worldwide revenues from MPMB SDR base stations will be close to $10 billion.
Commenting on these findings, Aditya Kaul, Senior Analyst at Pioneer, said, “The regional influence of MPMB SDR Vendors like Vanu Inc. and Alcatel Lucent is crucial for the technology to become a commercially viable solution.”
Kaul says that shortening standards lifecycles and uncertainty caused by vendors promoting proprietary wireless technologies is making the optimal choice for their network a tough call for wireless operators. Now that recent
innovations have enabled wideband RF front ends and soft transceivers, reconfigurable MPMB SDR base stations are one solution to this problem. We nevertheless expect resistance from certain sectors. “Not everyone will be convinced about this new base station technology”, warns Kaul. “Incumbent mobile operators with a growing dependence on large OEM.
Software Defined Radio (SDR) has been largely confined to defense markets until now and its adoption in the commercial market has been hindered by factors such as the lack of business case, the exorbitant costs of commercially developing the technology and the lack of a commercially viable development architecture to build upon. There have also been technical challenges, such as the inability of the RF/Analog ends to handle a wide spectrum of frequencies.
However, the report sees SDR being increasingly used as a marketing tool by many commercial wireless equipment vendors, with most vendors confining the meaning of SDR to 'software reconfigurability' or the ability to provide 'software based upgrades'. Pioneer terms these base stations as "partially upgradeable" base stations. In the past few years SDR has also found increasing usage in WiMAX base stations, something that has helped to widen its reach in the commercial wireless marketplace.
On the other hand, the report asserts that SDR is a technology that has a wider appeal to the commercial wireless market. Going forward, SDR's role will become clearer and much more prominent as multiple air interface standards compete for the highly sought after emerging broadband wireless technologies marketplace, with no clear winner as yet in sight.
In such a scenario, SDR is seen as an enabler for 'multiprotocol multiband' (MPMB) support in commercial base stations. Pioneer views the period around 2010 as a key inflection point for MPMB SDR. This is because of the emergence of advanced wireless standards of LTE, UMB and Mobile WiMAX, all of which are based on OFDM and contain synergies although they originate from different standard families. The period around 2010 also fits well with the technology advances that are occurring within SDR, especially on the RF/Analog front end. MPMB support is already being introduced by traditional SDR vendors as well as by 'top tier' base station OEMs and will continue to evolve as wireless operators begin to take advantage of the synergies between various wireless standards rather than restrict themselves to a particular standard family.
Thus, the period between 2007-17 is going to be a crucial period for MPMB SDR to evolve and be adopted in the commercial market. This brand new report from Pioneer Consulting is the first in a series of market research reports that focuses on the transition of SDR from defense to commercial markets and aims to identify the overall commercial SDR market opportunity. With the first report focusing on SDR in commercial base stations, the second report focuses on SDR in commercial small form-factor devices like picocells and mobile handsets.
This brand new report entitled, 'Commercial Software Defined Radio - The Emergence of Multiprotocol Multiband Support in Base Stations' addresses the key issues:
Who in the commercial wireless industry can gain from SDR?
Is there a commercial business case for SDR yet?
Is there consensus within the industry for a commercial SDR architecture?
Which commercial wireless geographic markets are attractive from an SDR perspective?
Which commercial wireless vendors are aggressively pursuing SDR and what is their individual level of adoption?
When can we expect to see 'true SDR' handsets?
Content Outline:
1. Introduction to SDR
2. SDR Technology
3. Commercial SDR Opportunities and Challenges
4. Adoption of SDR Technology in Commercial Cellular Base Stations
5. SDR Market Opportunity - Worldwide and Regional
6. Conclusion
Companies Mentioned:
- AirNet (now TECORE)
- Airspan
- Alcatel Lucent
- Technoconcepts
- Vanu
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