EJL Wireless Research estimates that macrocell digital baseband unit (BBU) shipments increased by 13% in 2016 as compared with shipment levels in 2015. While Huawei Technologies maintained its market leadership position in 2016, we note that Nokia outperformed the overall market and increased market...
Stand alone small cell vendors continue to look for exits. CommScope acquired Airvana in 2015. We recently learned that Corning Optical Communications plans to buy SpiderCloud Wireless. Sources external to the companies put the purchase price at approximately $200-250 million plus an additional amount...
In-building wireless BTS/controller-based small cell solutions finally reach critical size
BTS/controller-based small cell deployments are typically targeted for enterprise vertical applications such as:
Class A Office
Hospitality
Healthcare
Large Retail
Multi-Story/Multi-Tenant Housing
Higher Education
The enterprise market is the key battleground for the in-building wireless (IBW)...
Makers of wireless infrastructure are often careful about naming the semiconductor companies that supply their chipsets, creating a tension between chip vendors who want to promote their customer wins and manufacturers who want to maintain a competitive advantage by disclosing as little as possible....
The market for small cell chipsets has not developed as quickly as vendors hoped it would, but that is probably a function of carrier and consumer choices that have little to do with the chips themselves.
Outdoors, carriers are choosing fiber-fed remote radio units more...
Is it three or two?
With the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent now completed at Nokia, we believe that a review of the RAN market share for the combined new company is in order. We will have our updated 2015 radio transceiver (TRx) and base station market...
How did we end up here? A history lesson
In the beginning, there were six global wireless radio access network equipment vendors: Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia and Nortel Networks. Subsequently in the mid-2000s, the emergence of the Chinese vendors to support TD-SCDMA for...
Distributed antenna systems (DAS) are often the reason that we can make mobile phone calls inside airports and sports arenas, or on crowded downtown streets. Mobile operators distribute capacity throughout crowded venues and connect antennas back to a centralized headend to process signal and...
