NEW YORK, USA: Wireless operators will spend about $3.3 billion building LTE (Long Term Evolution) base stations in 2011, according to the most recent study of LTE from ABI Research.
That expenditure will have purchased some 142,000 base stations worldwide. LTE base station equipment spending is expected to rise sharply between 2011and the end of 2012.
“Vendors will be shipping base station equipment in significant quantities in 2010 ahead of limited trials that typically last about a year, followed by full commercial launches,” says senior analyst Nadine Manjaro.
“Many operators have been talking about re-use of existing equipment, but ABI Research understands that while there may be sharing of masts and cabinets most of those 142,000 base stations will have completely new baseband and RF components, because operators will generally try to keep the new LTE networks separate from their legacy networks.”
ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders also points out that, “Due to LTE’s propagation characteristics and higher frequencies, operators will eventually have to deploy extra sites to iron out gaps in coverage.”
That is good news for base station equipment vendors. Some contracts have already been announced: as noted previously, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Starent are the winners of a major set of contracts from Verizon Wireless.
In Japan, NTT-DOCOMO, in addition to tapping the world’s largest network infrastructure supplier, Ericsson, is also supporting local vendors NEC and Fujitsu.
TeliaSonera has chosen Ericsson and Huawei, while its fellow Scandinavian operators Tele2 and Telenor are also thought likely to settle on Huawei, which is proving a formidable competitor.
“There may be a new opportunity here for Nokia Siemens Networks,” notes Manjaro. “Nortel was early to market with LTE base station equipment, but its bankruptcy preempted that market push. With NSN’s acquisition of Nortel’s LTE assets, it is well placed to benefit from that early market presence.”
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Telecoms operators support "new" broadband forum
UK: Top telecommunications operators BT, Orange and Verizon have already welcomed yesterday’s announcement of the union between the Broadband Forum and the IP/MPLS Forum.
The news, which will see a “new” Broadband Forum emerge, was announced in Valencia, Spain, yesterday, where the two organisations came together for the first time. This consolidation in the standards and specifications community creates a Broadband Forum with more than 200 members, comprising service providers, vendors, chip manufacturers and regulatory bodies from across the world.
Kevin Foster, Head of Wireline Access at BT, said: “This union means we will all benefit from a greater end-to-end approach for network and protocol standardisation, and that includes end-to-end performance, interoperability, architecture and protocols. It is good news for the industry”.
His views were echoed in the United States, where Verizon’s Stu Elby, Vice President of Network Architecture, said that Verizon had been an active member of both organisations and applauded the move.
“As broadband convergence continues, the Broadband Forum will be a key organisation to ensure providers’ needs are met with a holistic end-to-end perspective, ensuring no gaps in critical network specifications,” he added.
The new Broadband Forum will cover a much wider scope of activity. It is expected that it will be increasingly influential in defining interoperable network equipment for local broadband access, advancing mobile backhaul solutions and empowering the next wave of business services, IPTV, gaming, and other applications as they arise.
Consolidation in this part of the industry was welcomed by Orange.
“We are very enthusiastic to see the industry defragmenting,” said Philippe Lucas, Vice President, International Standards and Industry Relationships at Orange.
“The union will allow better efficiency and coherence for some key topics for this industry, such as transport equipment interoperability, mobile backhaul, access and core networks integration,” he added.
The news, which will see a “new” Broadband Forum emerge, was announced in Valencia, Spain, yesterday, where the two organisations came together for the first time. This consolidation in the standards and specifications community creates a Broadband Forum with more than 200 members, comprising service providers, vendors, chip manufacturers and regulatory bodies from across the world.
Kevin Foster, Head of Wireline Access at BT, said: “This union means we will all benefit from a greater end-to-end approach for network and protocol standardisation, and that includes end-to-end performance, interoperability, architecture and protocols. It is good news for the industry”.
His views were echoed in the United States, where Verizon’s Stu Elby, Vice President of Network Architecture, said that Verizon had been an active member of both organisations and applauded the move.
“As broadband convergence continues, the Broadband Forum will be a key organisation to ensure providers’ needs are met with a holistic end-to-end perspective, ensuring no gaps in critical network specifications,” he added.
The new Broadband Forum will cover a much wider scope of activity. It is expected that it will be increasingly influential in defining interoperable network equipment for local broadband access, advancing mobile backhaul solutions and empowering the next wave of business services, IPTV, gaming, and other applications as they arise.
Consolidation in this part of the industry was welcomed by Orange.
“We are very enthusiastic to see the industry defragmenting,” said Philippe Lucas, Vice President, International Standards and Industry Relationships at Orange.
“The union will allow better efficiency and coherence for some key topics for this industry, such as transport equipment interoperability, mobile backhaul, access and core networks integration,” he added.
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