Cost Pressures Create Opportunity for Multi-Standard Radios, Report FindsMobile network operators are using multi-standard radios to help lower costs while offering more performance options, says Light Reading's Unstrung InsiderPRNewswire NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Intensified price pressure is pushing mobile network operators to deploy infrastructure products that offer a wider range of performance options, and multi-standard radios are emerging as a critical part of that cost-cutting initiative, according to the latest report from Unstrung Insider (http://www.unstrung.com/insider), a paid research service from Unstrung (http://www.unstrung.com/) and Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/). Multi-Standard Radio Systems: The Race Is On provides definitions of evolving multi-standard systems, as well as multi-band and combined multi-standard/multi-band solutions. It analyzes the key technical issues affecting multi-standard systems and evaluates the main market drivers and commercial implications. This report also profiles 11 leading suppliers of multi-standard systems. For a list of companies analyzed in this report, see: http://img.lightreading.com/uni/pdf/uni1008_companies.pdf "Multi-standard technology offers a larger reuse of R&D investment and greater flexibility to adapt quickly to specification changes," notes John Blau, research analyst with Unstrung Insider and author of the report. "With software-defined radio (SDR) multi-standard systems, operators will be able to roll out new mobile services and features more easily and also extend the lifespan of the networks, thus decreasing total cost of ownership." Many vendors are fighting to keep up with the operators that are already eager to reuse technology and use a multi-standard technology, Blau says. "The push in the vendor community is coming, primarily, from competition, even though multi-standard technology will help lower their R&D costs in the long run," he notes. "Vendors with a well-established global footprint are countering with new technology to defend their turf while trying to win new customers as well." Key findings of The Future of Mobile WiMax: Where, When & How Much? include: -- Developing markets and underserved areas of developed markets are
major opportunities for mobile WiMax.
-- The installed base of mobile WiMax networks is larger than it might
initially appear, but operators are being cautious about rollouts
until they are satisfied with mobile WiMax end-user devices.
-- Vendors assert that the mobile device selection will begin improving
dramatically by mid 2009.
-- The WiMax vendor universe is huge and cutthroat, creating enormous
pricing pressure on equipment such as base stations.
Key findings of Multi-Standard Radio Systems: The Race Is On include:
-- Vendors are focusing on digitizing, miniaturizing, and consolidating
as many components in base-station systems as possible.
-- Multi-standard systems interest has grown, allowing vendors to pursue
a strategy of "design once, deploy many" and operators to reuse
equipment and extend lifespan.
-- SDR is at the core of current efforts to deliver multi-standard
systems, and will play a greater role in future multi-band systems.
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