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Wave 2 Devices to Drive WiMAX Fixed
and Mobile Wireless Markets, Visant Strategies Finds
New York - The next generation of WiMAX devices will allow the 802.16 industry to make gains in both the fixed and mobile wireless markets, according to a new report from Visant Strategies. WiMAX vendors are luring carriers to WIMAX Wave 2 devices prior to certification via the economic advantages of utilizing multiple-in/multiple-out (MIMO) antenna technology and with the promise of proven interoperability. Certification is expected late in 2008.
"Bringing Wave 2 technologies out will accelerate the WiMAX industry position in the DSL/cable modem replacement market, a segment that is currently providing the WiMAX industry with fifty percent annual growth," said Andy Fuertes of Visant Strategies. "We see over 20 million fixed WiMAX subscribers in 2013."
"Availability of Wave 2 compliant devices will also jump start mobile opportunities since MIMO capabilities are a requirement of operators considering mobile WiMAX deployment, and now they have it," said Larry Swasey of Visant Strategies. WiMAX subscriber device revenues in 2013 will fall between $2.5 billion and $4.7 billion, depending on mobile WiMAX rollouts, according to the report.
Some chip vendors, the report finds, skipped Wave 1 certification to reap a windfall from early Wave 2 sales. "Many vendors believe that Wave 2 will yield a situation analogous to that of 802.11n in which pre-standard devices gained rapid market share," Fuertes said.
As fixed/portable WiMAX opportunities grow the next half-decade, so will those for mobile use once 802.16m enters the fray, according to the report, with new operators increasingly deploying mobile WiMAX through 2013. Also lucrative to the WiMAX industry are traditional fixed/portable applications in the 3.5 GHz band, for which revenues will rise greatly during the next five years.
The report provides global and some regional forecasts for shipments and revenues for WiMAX base stations, radios, subscribers, chipsets, network services and user devices including Wave 2, femtocells, phones and laptops. User device and chipset forecasts are segmented by standard. The study includes two lines of forecasts with one assuming limited mobile WiMAX deployments.
For more information contact Larry Swasey of Visant Strategies at (631) 893-3028 or email info@visantstrategies.com or go to www.visantstrategies.com.
© 2008, Visant Strategies