Key vendors to drive the growth by upgrading their network to high-speed packet access (HSPA+) and long-term evolution (LTE).
Technavio, a company that develops over 2000 pieces of research every year and covers more than 500 technologies across 80 countries, has announced the top five leading vendors for the global mobile backhaul equipment market in their latest research report. This report also lists 25 other prominent vendors who are expected to contribute to this market’s growth between 2016-2020.
To identify the top vendors, Technavio’s market research analysts have taken into account the global spending on mobile backhaul equipment in 2015, which includes macro and outdoor small cell backhaul.
This Technavio report, under machine to machine and connected devices vertical, is based on the synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of information about the global mobile backhaul equipment market collected from specialized sources. The analysts have derived insights using a mix of primary and secondary research with an aim to provide a holistic picture of the market.
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Competitive vendor landscape
The market for mobile backhaul equipment has a huge number of small and large vendors and is highly competitive in nature. The competition among the vendors are on the basis of performance, innovation, product features, quality, cost, distribution, and financial stability. The vendors mostly focus on innovation of products and services as any technological advancement can make the existing product outdated. The rise in demand for smartphones equipped with the latest technologies in developed nations and in emerging countries such as India, Malaysia, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Middle East has boosted the market for backhaul equipment and propelled vendors to make further investments in these emerging economies.
“One of the major trends that will drive growth in the market is the increase in heterogeneous networks and backhaul solutions. The rising popularity of connected devices such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets has boosted the backhaul market. Also, there will be a sharp rise in the mobile data traffic during the forecast period owing to increase in the number of mobile applications, smartphone shipments, and bandwidth-heavy services,” says Abhishek Sharma, a lead analyst at Technavio for research on machine to machine and connected devices.
Top five vendors in the mobile backhaul equipment market space
Cisco
Cisco is one of the leading vendors that serves the businesses of all sizes, public institutions, telecommunications companies, other service providers, and individuals. Cisco deals in designing, manufacturing and selling IP-based networking products and services to the communications and information technology industry. The company has gained popularity in the market with products like Cisco mobile backhaul that includes portfolio such as cell site, pre-aggregation, aggregation, service edge, and data center. The Cisco mobile backhaul solution is a combination of mobile and IP technologies that offer a basic programmable transport of mobile services by using high-performance platforms.
Key products: Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, Cisco ASR 900 Series Aggregation Service Routers, Cisco ASR 901 Series Aggregation Services Routers, and Cisco ASR 920 Series Aggregation Services Routers.
Ericsson
With an impressive product portfolio in the global mobile backhaul equipment market, Ericsson serves and fulfills the needs of diverse customer segments. It provides communications technology and services and stands out in providing hybrid, packet-only, next-generation synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH), and circuit emulation services. The solutions provided by Ericsson are not only efficient and flexible enough to support the existing as well as future technologies, but are also easily accessible and proficiently support high-bandwidth services. They also support IP and Ethernet on all platforms such as optical, microwave, and copper, and provide support for the consistent delivery of advanced mobile services. Ericsson’s IP metro and backhaul routers provide high capacity cost-effective solution into the IP metro and backhaul networks.
Key products: Router 6000 Series, Router 6672, Router 6675, Router 6274, SP, and MINI LINK series
Nokia
Nokia is a renowned brand that offers location-based technologies, network infrastructure, and advanced technologies, with a focus on mobile broadband. For Nokia, IP assets are important and they regulate three different IP portfolios such as Nokia Networks, Nokia Technologies, and Alcatel-Lucent portfolios. Nokia has gained popularity in the mobile backhaul equipment market with its contributions through its subsidiaries, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Networks. This acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent has expanded Nokia’s product portfolio in optical transmission and IP domain, and has made Nokia one of the leading players in the telecom gear market.
Key products: IP/MPLS mobile backhaul, Packet microwave mobile backhaul, Packet optical mobile backhaul, Professional services for mobile backhaul, and Wireline mobile backhaul.
Huawei
Huawei caters to various industries such as healthcare, finance, hospitality, government, retail, media and entertainment, public safety, oil and gas, and railway. It deals in manufacturing, selling, and marketing telecommunications equipment worldwide. Through its single backhaul solution AnyMedia synergy, Huawei has made its presence in the backhaul equipment market. The issues in O&M and obstacles of the site acquisition and usage faced by the mobile operators can be solved by AnyMedia synergy. It also integrates various mobile bearer technologies such as fiber, microwave, copper, and passive optical network into one solution.
Key products: RTN series, MSTP, Hybrid MSTP, and WDM/OTN series.
ZTE
ZTE provides complete range of products and end-to-end solutions in wireless, terminals, network services, ICT solutions to enterprises and government agencies. It is one of the top players of the global mobile backhaul equipment market and offers telecommunications equipment and network solutions globally. The ZTE Macrocell mobile backhaul products has helped ZTE gain global presence in the market.
Key Products: ZTE Macrocell mobile backhaul
Other prominent vendors in this market include Actelis Networks Adtran ADVA Optical Networking Alvarion, Aviat Networks, BridgeWave Communications, Cambridge Broadband Networks, Canoga Perkins, Celtro, Ceragon Networks, Ciena, DragonWave, ECI Telecom, FairPoint Communications, Fujitsu, Juniper, MRV Communications, Omnitron Systems, OneAccess Networks, RAD Data Communications, SkyFiber, Taqua, Telco Systems, Tellabs, and Transmode.
A more detailed analysis is available in the Technavio report, ‘Global Mobile Backhaul Equipment Market 2016-2020’. Technavio also customizes reports by other regions and specific segments upon request.
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