 Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Network Deployment Strategies, Market Drivers, Opportunities, and Challenges
There is a lot of buzz around LTE and for very good reasons: it seems to have the strength of the industry behind it. LTE’s MAC and upper layers are still be finalized, but, chipsets, infrastructure, and devices are being developed for commercial launch in 2010. The LTE standard is driven by operators, which is the key differentiator between it and preceding wireless technologies. CDMA operators and Asian operators who are early adopters will be the first to launch LTE. Existing UMTS operators will probably delay launch to extend the life of their existing HSPA networks and simplify the upgrade to LTE by slowly evolving their current architectures.
This study provides comprehensive coverage of LTE and related issues and opportunities. It lays out the LTE timeline, operators’ strategies, and the migration plans. IPR has been a big concern for LTE, and the report provides in-depth analysis of key technologies and their patent holders. Backhaul issues are also addressed, along with proposed solutions. The report also examines the increased security risks associated with high bandwidth mobile data, and the possible solutions to security concerns. Forecasts include subscriber data, base station projections, and femtocell projections. The study also lists planned LTE trials and deployments.
What Questions Does This Report Answer?
- What is the deployment timeline for LTE?
- What are the geographic deployment plans?
- What are the forecasted data for base stations, devices, and gateways?
- What are the base station opportunities, device opportunities, test equipment opportunities, gateway opportunities?
- What is the market size for LTE picocells and femtocells?
- What are the requirements for LTE base station architecture?
- What are the technical challenges and barriers to deployment?
- What are the drivers for LTE?
- What are the targeted applications for LTE?
- Who are the key IPR holders? What are the IPR issues?
- What are the challenges for LTE deployment and adoption?
- What are operators’ visions for LTE and their deployment plans?
- What are the backhaul challenges and potential solutions?
- What type of devices will be required for LTE?
- Which frequency bands will be used for LTE?
- What is the shape of the competitive landscape?
- What is the state of readiness for the following: chipsets, dsevice, infrastructure, testing, and security vendors?
Who Needs This Report?
- Mobile operators
- Chipset vendors
- Test equipment vendors
- Infrastructure vendors
- Cable operators
- Financial institutions
- Device vendors
- Application vendors
Section 1.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Operators Take Control
1.2 Commoditizing Wireless Data
1.3 Deployment Timeline
1.3.1 The Turning Point for LTE
1.3.2 Test Equipment vendors stand to gain from a $2 Billion LTE Equipment Market and Security Vendors Expand to Protect the Wireless Infrastructure
1.4 LTE Devices Will Focus on Data
1.5 LTE Trends
1.6 LTE Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Royalty Concerns
Section 2.
MARKET ISSUES
2.1 Drivers for LTE
2.1.1 LTE Applications
2.2 Barriers to LTE
2.3 Chipset Ecosystem
2.3.1 LTE Chipset Architecture Development
2.3.2 Chipset Architecture and Cost
Section 3.
TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
3.1 LTE Network Architecture
3.2 Service Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Evolved Packet System (EPS)
3.3 Spectrum
3.3.1 LTE Deployments by Spectrum by Region
3.4 Backhaul
3.4.1 Evolution Required by Operators
3.4.2 Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
3.4.3 Microwave Backhaul
3.4.4 Reduction in Base Station Deployments
3.5 LTE Security Concerns
3.5.1 Network Security
3.5.2 Device Security
3.6 Migration from WCDMA to LTE
3.6.1 HSPA+ Implications for LTE
3.7 LTE Devices
3.7.1 Migration from CDMA to LTE
3.8 Testing LTE
3.8.1 Other Test Challenges
3.8.2 The Market Opportunity for LTE Test Equipment Vendors (Over $1.3 Billion)
3.8.3 LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI)
3.9 High Level Profiles
3.9.1 Physical Layer Specifications
3.9.2 Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer Specifications
3.10 LTE comparison to WiMAX
3.10.1 Debunking the Myths
3.10.2 Backwards Compatibility
3.11 LTE Merged with WiMAX
3.12 LTE Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) (Key Technology Patents and Contributors)
3.12.1 Motorola has the top ten cited Beamforming patents
3.12.2 Fast Power Control
3.12.3 Ericsson and Matsushita lead in Hybrid-ARQ patents
3.12.4 Qualcomm rules in Multiple In Multiple Out (MIMO) patent citations
3.12.5 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (ODFM) is dominated by Asian vendors
3.12.6 Samsung dominates OFDMA patents
3.12.7 Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA)
3.12.8 Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
Section 4.
KEY INDUSTRY PLAYERS
4.1 Operators Migration Strategy
4.1.1 Vodafone
4.1.2 AT&T
4.1.3 Verizon
4.1.4 KDDI
4.1.5 EchoStar (Dish)
4.1.6 China Mobile
4.1.7 T-Mobile
4.1.8 Telstra
4.1.9 Other Operators with LTE plans
4.2 Infrastructure Vendor Ecosystem
4.2.1 Alcatel-Lucent
4.2.2 Ericsson
4.2.3 Fujitsu
4.2.4 Huawei
4.2.5 Motorola
4.2.6 Nokia Siemens (NSN)
4.2.7 Nortel
4.2.8 ZTE
4.3 LTE Support Organizations
4.3.1 Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution Test Initiative (LSTI)
4.3.2 NGMN
4.4 Device Vendor Ecosystem
4.4.1 Femtocell Vendors
4.4.2 ADC
4.4.3 Novatel Wireless
4.4.4 Sony Ericsson
4.4.5 ZTE
4.5 LTE Core Network and Security Vendors
4.5.1 Juniper Networks
4.5.2 Starent
4.6 Chipset Vendor Ecosystem
4.6.1 Texas Instruments (TI)
4.6.2 Qualcomm
4.6.3 Freescale
4.7 Test Vendors Ecosystem
4.7.1 Agilent
4.7.2 Anite
4.7.3 Anritsu
4.7.4 Tektronix
Section 5.
MARKET FORECASTS
5.1 Forecast Methodology
5.2 The Operators Driving LTE
5.3 LTE is forecasted to reach 32 million subscribers by 2013
5.4 LTE Base Station Infrastructure Forecast
5.4.1 Base Station Deployment for the Asia-Pacific Region
5.5 Cellular Vendor Infrastructure Market Share
5.6 Picocell LTE Forecast
5.7 LTE Femtocell Forecast
5.8 LTE Device Forecast
5.9 LTE MME/SAE Gateway Opportunity
Section 6.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
6.1 Operators
6.2 Infrastructure Vendors
6.3 Device Vendors
6.4 Chipset Vendors
Section 7.
COMPANY DIRECTORY
Section 8.
ACRONYMS
SCOPE OF STUDY
SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY
NOTES
Tables
- LTE Performance Targets,
- Data Consumption on Commercial Mobile Broadband Networks,
- LTE Vendor Landscape,
- LTE Applications,
- Installed Base Station Count, Western Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Eastern Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Asia-Pacific: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, North America: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, South America: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Middle East: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Africa: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, World Market by Technology: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, World Market by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, World Market LTE by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, Western Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, Eastern Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, Asia-Pacific: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, North America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, South America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, Middle East: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, Africa: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, World Market by Technology: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, World Market by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net Addition in Base Station Installations, World Market LTE by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Western Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Eastern Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Asia-Pacific: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, North America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, South America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Middle East: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Africa: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, World Market by Technology: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, World Market by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, World Market LTE by Region: 2006 to 2014
- EDGE Trials and Commercial Deployments, World Market: 3Q 2006
- UMTS Trials and Commercial Deployments, World Market: 3Q 2006
- HSDPA Trials and Commercial Deployments, World Market: 3Q 2006
- CDMA2000 Trials and Commercial Deployments, World Market: 3Q 2006
- WiMAX Trials and Commercial Deployments, World Market: 3Q 2006
- LTE Subscribers, World Market: 2009 - 2014
Charts
- Installed Base Station Count, Western Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Eastern Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Asia-Pacific: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, North America: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, South America: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Middle East: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, Africa: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, World Market by Technology: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, World Market by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Installed Base Station Count, World Market LTE by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, Western Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, Eastern Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, Asia-Pacific: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, North America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, South America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, Middle East: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, Africa: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, World Market by Technology: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in Base Station Installations, World Market by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net Additions in LTE Base Station Installations, World Market LTE by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Western Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Eastern Europe: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Asia-Pacific: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, North America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, South America: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Middle East: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, Africa: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, World Market by Technology: 2006 to 2014
- Net Base Station Equipment Spend, World Market by Region: 2006 to 2014
- Net LTE Base Station Equipment Spend, World Market LTE by Region: 2006 to 2014
Figures
- LTE Deployment Timeline
- LTE Data Rate Based on Different Configurations
- LTE Network Architecture
- New Spectrum Released by ITU
- HSPA Architecture Options
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Number of Pages:
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Number of Tables, Charts and Figures:
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