DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Small Cells: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide 2018-2024" report from Wintergreen Research, Inc has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The total value of the small cell market is $12.5 billion in 2017, up from $10.35 billion in 2016. Markets grow to $58.7 billion in 2024.
Growth is a result of the implementation of the tremendous amount of digital content from video on smart phones, from the digital economy, IoT, robots, drones, self-driving cars, and artificial intelligence. The digital economy rides on the back of small cells 5G signal transmission which is a 10x improvement in capacity over existing broadband. This is the new world aspect, everything is monitored and activated digitally.
Small Cell Market Driving Forces
- Need for enabling evolution of local communications network
- Availability of fully virtualized, distributed, ultra-reliable software
- Effective software for controlling agile infrastructure
- Automation facilitates large-scale low-cost network densification
- Lowers cost by implementing network through third-party deployments
- Effective integration of base small cell technologies
- Systems integration achieved with open and interoperable standards
- Open and interoperable standards needed to ensure competition
- Open and interoperable standards needed to ensure economies of scale
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Adoption of these 5G Era technologies will require culture shifts in
processes
Small Cell Infrastructure Critical Issues
- Service providers are focused on densification
- Small cells are a critical part of the infrastructure for key 5G implementations
- 5G deployment needs small cells
- >6GHz spectrum propagation limits cell sizes
- Shared and license-exempt spectrum mandates lower power
- Areas of hyper-dense broadband traffic need small cells
- Small cells meet demand in cities, stadia, transport hubs
- Scalable deployment
- Low-cost deployment
- Using a low-skilled, third-party, or end-user workforce
- Small/medium enterprises requiring self-deployed indoor coverage
- Coverage extension in rural, remote, moving and temporary deployment
- Scenarios with equipment size, weight or power constraints
Companies Mentioned
- ADRF
- Airspan
- Alcatel-Lucent
- ANs
- AT&T
- Ciena
- Cisco Small Cells
- CommScope
- Corning Spidercloud
- Ericsson
- Fujitsu
- Huawei
- ip.access
- NEC
- Nokia
- NTSI
- Optimos
- Qualcomm
- Samsung
- Signal Booster.com
- Small Cell Forum
- Solid Technologies
- Zouk Capital
- ZTE
Key Topics Covered:
1. Small Cells: Market Description and Market Dynamics
2. Small Cells Market Shares and Forecasts
3. Small Cells Product Description
4. Small Cells Research and Technology
5. Small Cells Company Profiles
6. Research Methodology
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