Face-off: LTE vs. WiMAX
The report provides a global view of LTE vs. WiMAX focusing on several key areas: Spectrum Licensing Landscape, Standards Battle, Market Size and Trends, Vendor Landscape, and Operator Landscape. For each of these areas, this report presents the relevant market developments and facts behind the deployment of LTE and WiMAX, and discusses the key factors that will impact the success of each of these technology options. Each section concludes with a ‘Face-Off’ Table that summarizes these factors, providing a score for each of these key success factors, and totaling these scores to provide an overall indication of the winner in each of the five major areas assessed.
Contents
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY2 INTRODUCTION: THE ROAD TO 4G
2.1 Purpose and Contents
2.2 Applications of 4G
2.3 Network Architecture
2.4 Terminology
3 SPECTRUM LICENSING LANDSCAPE
3.1 Analysis of Spectrum Bands
3.1.1 Spectrum Availability around the World
3.1.2 Channel Sizes and Duplexing
3.1.3 Prioritization of Spectrum Bands
3.1.4 Licensing Regimes
3.1.5 How the Licensing Landscape is Changing
3.2 Current and Impending Spectrum Licensing
3.3 LTE vs. WiMAX Spectrum Face-Off
4 THE STANDARDS BATTLE
4.1 Standards and Industry Bodies
4.1.1 Timelines for Standards
4.1.2 Key Industry Bodies
4.1.3 History and Pedigree of LTE and WiMAX
4.1.4 Overview of Similarities and Differences
4.1.5 Performance Analysis
4.2 Comparison of LTE and WiMAX Standards
4.3 LTE vs. WiMAX Standards Face-Off
5 MARKET SIZE AND TRENDS.
5.1 Market Size Predictions
5.1.1 Subscriber Numbers
5.1.2 Equipment Revenues
5.1.3 Vendors’ Market Shares
5.1.4 Networks, Operators and Service Revenues
5.1.5 Geographical Variations
5.2 Factors that may Impact Market Size
5.2.1 Standards, Compliance and Equipment Readiness
5.2.2 Impact of HSPA and LTE’s relationship with 3G
5.2.3 Infrastructure sharing
5.2.4 End User Handset Development
5.2.5 Success of Current WiMAX Deployments
5.3 LTE vs. WiMAX Market Size and Trends Face-Off
6 VENDOR LANDSCAPE
6.1 Status of Market and Equipment Availability
6.1.1 Equipment Readiness and Timelines
6.1.2 Level of Market Fragmentation
6.1.3 Installed Base and Backwards Integration
6.1.4 Equipment Costs and Business Case
6.1.5 Barriers to Entry
6.2 Vendor Analysis
6.2.1 Airspan
6.2.2 Alcatel-Lucent
6.2.3 Alvarion
6.2.4 Cisco / Navini
6.2.5 Ericsson
6.2.6 Fujitsu
6.2.7 Huawei
6.2.8 Motorola
6.2.9 NEC
6.2.10 Nextwave
6.2.11 Nokia Siemens Networks
6.2.12 Nortel Networks
6.2.13 Redline Communications
6.2.14 Samsung
6.2.15 SOMA Networks
6.2.16 SR Telecom
6.2.17 Telisma Corporation
6.3 LTE vs. WiMAX Vendor Landscape Face-Off
7 OPERATOR LANDSCAPE
7.1 Operator Attitudes and 4G Readiness
7.1.1 Operator Requirements and Risk Factors
7.1.2 Cellular Operators
7.1.3 Greenfield and Fixed Line Operators
7.1.4 Geographical Variations
7.1.5 Recent Operator Trends
7.2 Status of Network Rollouts
7.2.1 LTE
7.2.2 WiMAX
7.3 LTE vs. WiMAX Operator Landscape Face-Off
8 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
8.1 Summary of Key Evaluation Criteria
8.1.1 Spectrum Licensing Landscape
8.1.2 Standards Battle
8.1.3 Market Size and Trends
8.1.4 Vendor Landscape
8.1.5 Operator Landscape
8.2 LTE vs. WiMAX Final Face-Off
9 REPORT AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER
9.1 About the Author
9.2 About Mind Commerce Skip to top