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Pioneer Consulting Predicts Total Market Opportunity for Software Defined
Radio to Reach $31.4 Billion by 2008
Emerging Technology Poised to Transform Wireless Industry
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002--With the migration to next
generation, mobile voice and data networks, wireless operators are
confronted with a myriad of conflicting, emerging technological standards.
Amidst the confusion, a new technology is beginning to command attention
as
a breakthrough solution for the entire wireless industry, Software Defined
Radio (SDR). SDR technology establishes a new method for constructing
wireless devices where signal processing functions reside in software rather
than hardware.
According to Pioneer Consulting's latest report, Software Defined Radio:
Opportunities and Challenges of the Next Generation Platform for Mobile
Communications, SDR technology will achieve a growing acceptance over
the
next six years, entailing a market opportunity that will increase from $694
million in 2002 to $31.4 billion by 2008.
The report also finds that SDR will bring about a shift in the functional
operation of base stations (BTS) from hardware to software that will provide
the greatest portion of the overall market opportunity for SDR of over $20
billion by 2008.
``SDRs flexibility and scalability will result in reduced development costs
for base stations and provide a competitive advantage over operators
building networks on hardware-based systems,'' says Michael Massey,
senior
market analyst, Satellite Systems.
According to the report, SDR based handsets - unlike SDR base stations -
will not find mass acceptance in the near term. The SDR handset market
initially will be comprised of targeted niche markets including, government
organization and business travelers, but will realize a market opportunity
of over $10 billion annually by 2008.
Pioneer believes that SDR, in its ideal form, will enable a converged
wireless infrastructure offering mobile and fixed, narrowband and
broadband,
and business and residential services, an outcome that will save billions of
dollars in network operations costs, resulting in benefits for both service
providers and subscribers.
``SDR's ability to reconfigure and update a wireless network through a new
software load, as well as support multiple standards operating on multiple
frequencies simultaneously on the same hardware clearly represents a
dramatic difference from the networks in operation today,'' concludes
Massey.
``Initially, SDR was thought appropriate only for 4G networks, which are
still 5-10 years away,'' notes Paul Kellett, senior director of research.
``However, advances in processing speed and analog to digital conversion
have enabled SDR to become a reality today. As such, SDR has the
potential
to serve as the catalyst for transforming today's rigid wireless networks
into a virtually infinite array of future wireless products and services.''
The Software Defined Radio: Opportunities and Challenges of the Next
Generation Platform for Mobile Communications report takes an in-depth
look at the global market opportunities for SDR technology from 2002-2008
including, market opportunity forecasts for both base stations and handsets
in each region.
more at the company's Web site www.pioneerconsulting.com |
