Report: Mobile Backhaul Market to Jump 60%
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, November 30, 2009 · 
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Mobile backhaul equipment investments jumped a healthy 59% in 2008 to $3.7 billion worldwide, and Infonetics Research is forecasting another 60% jump in 2009 to $5.9 billion.
Infonetics expects more than 1.6 billion new mobile subscribers and about 700 thousand new mobile broadband subscribers between 2009 and 2013, which will require more base stations, more cell site connections, higher backhaul capacities, and equipment for each cell-site connection.
“We see no letup in the mobile backhaul equipment market, as service providers around the world continue to upgrade their networks to handle the rapidly growing number of mobile broadband subscribers and their bandwidth-heavy habits,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst for carrier and data center networks at Infonetics Research.
“More than 100 operators are now deploying HSPA, with a coming wave of HSPA+ upgrades, WiMAX, and LTE, all to handle the skyrocketing mobile data traffic. And the most cost-effective way to do that is to transition from TDM to packet IP/Ethernet, which is driving the mobile backhaul equipment market.”
The research firm noted that while Ericsson continues to lead the microwave mobile backhaul equipment market with about a quarter of worldwide revenue, there remains plenty of opportunity for smaller, more nimble players.
Read Infonetics’ release.
Read NTCA’s ePaper on The Business Case for Mobile Backhaul.
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