Analysis On Fixed Broadband Wireless Market
...broadband Internet connection, an increasing number are being forced into expensive collocation facilities to service their e-commerce bandwidth needs. Many smaller enterprises that are not considering collocation are also dissatisfied with their Internet access alternatives. Fiber, cable and DSL are either unavailable, have lengthy lead times or do not deliver sufficient symmetrical throughput to most business locations.
Fixed broadband wireless offers a strategic alternative to bring symmetrical bandwidth to every business location, eliminating the need for collocation while reducing user costs and improving access and convenience for all.
Two recent advances have combined to create a unique opportunity in this market:
1. Product development has now driven down the cost of point-to-multipoint wireless equipment while simultaneously increasing the transmission capacity and features available to operators; and
2. The FCC has authorized 300 MHz of free spectrum in the Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII band) available to all users without an auction or purchase of individual frequencies.
1.2The Macro-Market
It is important to participate in an attractive and rapidly growing market. For example, annual investment in the public data network infrastructure is expected to grow from $12B in 1999 to $22B in 2003 (IDC). Wireless is recognized as one of the lowest cost access solutions (DataComm Research Company), and leading industry experts agree that broadband wireless is a tremendous growth industry: the worldwide market for emerging data services is estimated at $5B (TIA).
Wireless broadband applications (including Internet access, Virtual Private Networking (VPN), Voice/video-over-IP, CAD sharing, medical imaging, multimedia streaming, CD burning, thick client applications, data warehousing, etc.) demand increased...
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