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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
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Next-generation WiMAX the key to
expansion
Report predicts that the next generation of WiMAX devices will allow the 802.16 industry to make gains in both the fixed and mobile wireless markets.
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 using multiple-in/multiple-out (MIMO) antenna technology and with the promise of proven interoperability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"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 50% annual growth", says 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", says Larry Swasey of Visant Strategies.
WiMAX subscriber device revenues in 2013 will fall between US $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 prestandard devices gained rapid market share", adds Fuertes.
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 3.5GHz 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 basestations, 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.
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