Global downturn still affecting microwave backhaul market
The global economic downturn continues to impact mobile carriers’ deployment decisions where it comes to microwave-based mobile backhaul investments, researchers at Maravedis report. In the second quarter of 2010, the total size of the point-to-point microwave market was US$1.07 billion. That’s a 4.3 percent decrease from the previous quarter, when the size of the market reached US$1.12 billion.
Latin America was the only region that saw an increase in microwave shipments in the second quarter of 2010 (15.6%, to reach US$120.45 million worth in shipments).
Huawei aggressively climbing microwave shipment ranking in the second quarter of 2010. Huawei experienced a sharp 51.6 percent growth in microwave shipments (US$186.85 million in shipments during Q2 2010), which has propelled it to second place on the podium, just behind market leader Ericsson (US$197.25 million in the same quarter).
Huawei, which introduced its first microwave products in 2007, has overtaken other vendors who have been in the market for longer.
The two traditional market leaders, Ericsson and NEC, experienced considerable decreases in
their shipments (23.7 percent and 29.1 percent, respectively) between the first and second quarter of 2010.
Today the biggest trend is to deploy hybrid systems (TDM and IP), since they offer the most secure method of keeping 2G and 3G networks working by adding packet capacity for 4G services. However,
hybrid microwave system shipments decreased by 1.9 percent to US$744.75 million in the second quarter.
Only Ericsson and Ceragon have exclusively hybrid equipment in place to support Ethernet services.
Pure packet, the most advanced microwave backhaul technology to-date, increased its
shipments by 5.6 percent to US$198.92 million in the second quarter, although it still has a very small market share compared to hybrid microwave.
TDM microwave shipments decreased 26.4 percent in just one quarter, totaling US$126.43 million in
the second quarter.
Vendors are not recommending TDM links for new short-haul deployments and most TDM links are long haul, Maravedis notes.
The slowdown experienced by microwave from the first to second quarter will not last long, since operators really need to upgrade their backhaul links in advance to enable higher radio access speeds, Maravedis argues.
The coming wave of 4G network builds will lead to high microwave backhaul sales, the firm says.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B94-BrKiUcejNTliNTUwZmQtMTJhOC00ZDVmLTlmNDUtZmZjNmMxYTM1YzUw&hl=en
The global economic downturn continues to impact mobile carriers’ deployment decisions where it comes to microwave-based mobile backhaul investments, researchers at Maravedis report. In the second quarter of 2010, the total size of the point-to-point microwave market was US$1.07 billion. That’s a 4.3 percent decrease from the previous quarter, when the size of the market reached US$1.12 billion.
Latin America was the only region that saw an increase in microwave shipments in the second quarter of 2010 (15.6%, to reach US$120.45 million worth in shipments).
Huawei aggressively climbing microwave shipment ranking in the second quarter of 2010. Huawei experienced a sharp 51.6 percent growth in microwave shipments (US$186.85 million in shipments during Q2 2010), which has propelled it to second place on the podium, just behind market leader Ericsson (US$197.25 million in the same quarter).
Huawei, which introduced its first microwave products in 2007, has overtaken other vendors who have been in the market for longer.
The two traditional market leaders, Ericsson and NEC, experienced considerable decreases in their shipments (23.7 percent and 29.1 percent, respectively) between the first and second quarter of 2010.
Today the biggest trend is to deploy hybrid systems (TDM and IP), since they offer the most secure method of keeping 2G and 3G networks working by adding packet capacity for 4G services. However,
hybrid microwave system shipments decreased by 1.9 percent to US$744.75 million in the second quarter.
Only Ericsson and Ceragon have exclusively hybrid equipment in place to support Ethernet services.
Pure packet, the most advanced microwave backhaul technology to-date, increased its
shipments by 5.6 percent to US$198.92 million in the second quarter, although it still has a very small market share compared to hybrid microwave.
TDM microwave shipments decreased 26.4 percent in just one quarter, totaling US$126.43 million in the second quarter.
Vendors are not recommending TDM links for new short-haul deployments and most TDM links are long haul, Maravedis notes.
The slowdown experienced by microwave from the first to second quarter will not last long, since operators really need to upgrade their backhaul links in advance to enable higher radio access speeds, Maravedis argues.
The coming wave of 4G network builds will lead to high microwave backhaul sales, the firm says.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B94-BrKiUcejNTliNTUwZmQtMTJhOC00ZDVmLTlmNDUtZmZjNmMxYTM1YzUw&hl=en
