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WiMAX End-Products and
Commercial Services -- 2005
Other Topics: WiMAX Trials,
802.16e Mobile
WiMax
December 14, 2005
Dublin, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c29552)
has announced the addition of WiMAX: Wireless Super-Chips to their
offering.
WiMAX has tremendous potential to offer a global standardized broadband
wireless platform. However, the market will face several hurdles in the
near term, some of which include a solid migration path to mobile WiMAX
(802.16e) from fixed WiMAX (WiMAX-2004), competition from ever-evolving
3G and Wi-Fi technologies, and commitment from service providers to
building out WiMAX networks. This report includes two forecast
scenarios, one conservative and one aggressive. WiMAX chipset shipments
and revenues are broken down into the following equipment segments: CPE
(modems and gateways), Point-to-Multipoint Base Stations, Point-to-Point
Base Stations, Clients (external and embedded), and Mobile Handsets. The
report includes WiMAX vendor profiles, with background information on
providers of PHY and MAC solutions, and radio front-end providers. WiBro
(basically a service offered in South Korea that is based on mobile
WiMAX) is also covered, with the overall WiMAX forecast numbers
including any WiBro chipsets.
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This report found the following:
- Despite tremendous hype around
WiMAX, the WiMAX chipset market has a relatively small number of
players, as the market is quite nascent.
- There has been much innovation in
WiMAX chipsets this year. Heavyweights Intel and Fujitsu released
WiMAX PHY and MAC System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions this year, along
with start-ups Sequans and Wavesat. Signal processing specialist,
picoChip, powered the market for macro base stations chipsets, with
its software reference designs.
- Intel, perhaps WiMAX's biggest
cheerleader, has the power to drive mobile WiMAX into becoming a
standard embedded feature within mobile PCs, as Intel did with Wi-Fi
in its Centrino mobile platform.
The report, WiMAX: Wireless Super-Chips
includes a five-year forecast of the worldwide WiMAX chipset market,
broken out by equipment type. It includes as "WiMAX" those chipsets that
adhere to Fixed WiMAX (802.16-2004), Mobile WiMAX (802.16e), and WiBro
(South Korea's mobile broadband service based on Mobile WiMAX). Also
included are those chipsets that are WiMAX-ready (and adhere to
802.16-2004) that shipped, or will ship in 2005 and 2006, although not
certified by the WiMAX Forum. The report also contains analysis of WiMAX
chipset technology, market drivers and challenges, and brief profiles of
chipset vendors.
Contents Include:
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Executive Summary
- Methodology
- Introduction
- WiMAX Overview
- Fixed WiMAX
- Mobile WiMAX
- WiBro
- WiMAX Technology Architecture
- PHY
- OFDM
- OFDM-256, OFDMA, and SOFDMA
- MAC
- WiMAX Enhancements
- Frequencies
- Competitive Technology Landscape
- State of the WiMAX Market
- Overview: BWA Market Pre-WiMAX
- 2005 Happenings: WiMAX Chips,
End-Products, and Commercial Services Debut
- WiMAX ICs--2005
- WiMAX End-Products and Commercial
Services--2005
- WiBro
- WiMAX Chipset Design
- Primary WiMAX Chipset Components
- Design Considerations
- Power
- Range
- Overcoming Multipath Interference
- Process
- Chipset Type
- WiMAX Market Drivers & Challenges
- WiMAX Market Drivers
- WiMAX Challenges
- WiMAX Chipset Forecasts
- WiMAX Equipment Timeline:
Optimistic
- WiMAX Equipment Segments Breakdown
- Geographic Breakdowns
- Conservative Forecast
- Aggressive Forecast
- WiMAX IC Vendors
- PHY/MAC Providers
- WiMAX Radio Front-End Providers
- Other WiMAX IC Players to Watch
- Conclusion
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
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